Ideas and Beliefs
Changes
Turning Points
Turning Points 2
Vocabulary
100
This process occurred in the late 1800s when European nations like Britain, France, and Belgium competed to control land and resources across the African continent.
Imperialism
100
This economic system, developed by Karl Marx, believes that all property should be owned by the community, little to no private property, and that wealth should be shared equally.
Communism
100
The economic hardship and unemployment caused by The _____ _________ led many people in countries like Germany and Italy to support strong authoritarian leaders such as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
Great Depression
100
During the battle of Stalingard in Russia, Germany experienced their first major defeat of WW2. What was the main cause of this German defeat?
Harsh weather conditions
100
The British smuggled this highly addictive drug into China in hopes of balancing an unfavorable trade with the Chinese.
Opium
200
This political ideology unites people through shared language, culture, and history, but can also lead to rivalry and conflict between nations.
Nationalism
200
This German military strategy used fast-moving troops, tanks, and air power to quickly overwhelm enemies at the start of World War II.
Blitzkerg aka "Lighting War"
200
During World War I, soldiers on the Western Front fought from long, deep ditches that stretched for miles, leading to a deadly stalemate between opposing armies.
Trench Warfare
200
Court case where the surviving Nazis who helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust were put on trial.
Nuremberg Trials
200
Which European time period between the 1600's and 1700's most influenced the ideas written in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (Think separation of powers, natural rights, freedom of speech, etc)
The Enlightenment
300
In this type of government, the state has total control over public and private life, and leaders like Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin used propaganda, censorship, and secret police to maintain power.
What is totalitarianism?
300
6 million Jews and about 2 million other "inferior" races were killed in this 20th century genocide
The Holocaust
300
During this 18th and 19th century period in England, overcrowded housing, polluted water, and poor sanitation led to frequent outbreaks of diseases such as cholera in cities such as Manchester and London.
Industrial Revolution
300
Inspired by Enlightenment ideas and the American and French Revolutions, this Latin American Creole rebel leader led independence movements across South America against Spain in the early 1800s. He also wanted to unite most of South America.
Simon Bolivar
300
This foreign policy approach, most clearly seen in the Munich Agreement of 1938, assumed that satisfying limited territorial demands would prevent larger conflicts—but instead encouraged further aggression.
Appeasement
400
Identify 2 motives for imperialism during the 18th and 19th centuries (1700's-1800's)
Industrial Revolution and the Birth of Capitalism
Nationalism
Racial Superiority (White Man’s Burden)
Christianity
5. New Inventions
400
What were the 3 pre-revolutionary social classes in France called? Who belonged to each group?
1st Estate = Clergy/Church
2nd Estate = Nobility
3rd Estate= Everyone else
400
After the Opium Wars China was forced to sign this unequal treaty, which allowed for more Western intervention and trade into Asian markets.
Treaty of Nanjing
400
What methods did the Nazis use to carry out Hitler's "Final Solution," which called for the extermination of Jews and other "inferior" groups (identify at least 2 )
- Nuremberg Laws
- Anti-Semitic Propaganda
- Forced into ghettos
- Concentration camps
400
One major global response to the human rights abuses revealed after World War II was the adoption of this document by the United Nations to promote universal human rights.
The Declaration of Human Rights
500
During the 1930s, Japan adopted a more aggressive expansionist foreign policy, which resulted in the colonization of areas such as Manchuria. Identify 2 reasons for Japanese Imperialism in East Asia.
Access to Natural Resources
Meeting the demands of a growing population
Influenced by the idea of racial superiority
Less trading due to the Great Depression
Failure of the League of Nations to Stop Japanese Aggression
500
Put these events in order (ex. A--B--C--D)
A. Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
B. Allies invade Europe on D-Day
C. Germany invades Poland
D. Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
C----D-----B-----A
500
One major political result of World War II was the creation of this international body designed to promote diplomacy, collective security, and cooperation among nations.
The Creation of the United Nations
500
These economic, political, and social conditions in Germany after World War I helped Adolf Hitler gain power in the 1930s. (Name 2 factors.)
The Treaty of Versailles and its harsh reparations
Economic problems, including hyperinflation and the Great Depression
Weak Weimar Republic and political instability
Rise of nationalist sentiment and resentment toward minorities (especially Jews)
500
In the late 1800s, European powers and Japan gained special trading rights and economic control over different regions of China without fully colonizing it. This divided China into areas controlled by foreign nations.
Sphere of Influence