Enlightenment
World Wars
Interwar Period
Cold War
Pop singer or President
100

The Haitian, American, and French Revolution share this ideological backing. 

Enlightenment

100

Characteristic of WWI and WWII, this is a war fought using all resources, military and civilian.

Total War

100

This "truce" ended WWI.

Armistice 

100

Totalitarian dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924-1953

Joseph Stalin

100

Taylor Swift 

Pop Singer 

200

Political ideology that born from Enlightenment ideals with a focus on freedom of the individual, protection of basic rights/civil liberties, and representative government.

Liberalism

200

Endorsed by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, this provided enfranchisement to women and was a symbol for the global women’s suffrage movement.

19th Amendment 

200

This ideology was on the rise. It places the nation above the individuals, calls for a centralized government, dictatorial leader, and economic and social regimentation. 

Fascism

200

A post-WWII plan that would provide financial assistance to Europe after WWII to help Europe rebuild.

Marshall Plan

200

Charles De Gaulle

President


300

A transition from the medieval worldview to a rational, secular, and materialistic one.

Scientific Revolution 

300

A meeting between European Powers after the fall of Napoleon to restore the balance of power and assert principles of conservatism, including a policy of intervention. 

Congress of Vienna (1814-15)              

300

This form of debt servitude, alongside convict leasing, was iteration of systemic racism against the African American community into the 1940s. 

Peonage

300

Humanitarian operation carried out by the U.S. and the U.K to bring supplies to Germany’s capital during a USSR blockade shortly after the end of WWII.

Berlin Airlift

300

Stefani Germanotta

Pop singer (Lady Gaga)

400

Adam Smith, English Enlightenment thinker, felt that individuals should be able to pursue their own economic self-interest with little government involvement using this outlook. 

Laissez-faire

400

Association of nations that would offer the mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to ALL nations larger or small; was rejected by the United States.

League of Nations 

400

A boom in African American literature, art, and music as a part of an organized effort from civil rights groups that focused on the rejection of white society.

Harlem Renaissance 

400

A meeting between Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt where Churchill and Roosevelt pressured Stalin to hold free elections in Eastern Europe

Yalta Conference 

400

Zachary Taylor

President 

500

English writer who wrote the Vindication of the Rights of Women and challenged views held by Enlightenment thinkers like Rousseau.

Mary Wollstonecraft

500

U.S. Presidential order that called for forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.

Order 9066

500

A series of riots due to increased racial tensions following WWI in nearly 30 cities across the U.S. 

"Red Summer" 1919

500

Vietnamese nationalist and anti-colonialist who appealed to the U.S. to support Vietnams call for independence. After being unheard by the U.S. and Western nations, turned to communism to gain independence.

Ho Chi Mihn

500

Édith Cresson

President