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Enlightenment ideas challenged this concept, where kings rule by divine right.
What is absolute monarchs
This political event led to the rise of Napoleon.
What is the French Revolution?
What was the U.S. policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism during the Cold War?
What is cointainment
Which genocide was carried out by the Nazis during World War II? What group of people was the main target?
What is the holocaust and Jewish Citizens?
Who is the "Father of Fascism? What is fascism?
Who is Benito Mussolini
What is a political ideology that promotes extreme nationalism and a one-party dictatorship?
What is the Industrial Revolution, and where did it start?
What is marked a shift from traditional hand-made goods and farming economies to industrialized, machine-based production. What is Great Britain
This economic system favors a free market with little government interference.
What is capitalism
What was the military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European communist allies?
What was the military alliance formed by the United States, Canada and Western European Nations?
What is the Warsaw Pact
What is NATO.
What famine, caused by Stalin's policies, killed millions in the Soviet Union? What was Stalin's policy called?
What is the Holodomor and Stalin 5 year plan.
These wars led to China being carved into spheres of influence.
This 1899–1901 rebellion was an attempt by Chinese nationalists to kick out foreign powers.
What are the Opium Wars
What is the Boxer Rebellion
This Latin American revolutionary led independence movements in South America.
Who is Simón Bolívar
This treaty ended WWI and blamed Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Who was the first communist leader of China?
Which Chinese leader moved China toward a market economy after Mao?
Who is Mao Zedong
Who is Deng Xiaoping
What two countries were created after the partition of British India in 1947?
What are India and Pakistan?
This company controlled India before the British government took over.
This 1857 uprising by Indian soldiers attempted to overthrow British rule.
What is the British East Trading Company
What is the Sepoy Mutiny
The Haitian Revolution was led by this formerly enslaved man.
Who is Toussaint Louverture
What is appeasement?
What is a policy of giving in to the demands of an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict. (Europe did this with Hitler before World War II)
What was the name of Mao's program to modernize China's farms and factories, and a movement to eliminate anyone against communisim?
What is the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
What was the system of racial segregation in South Africa that lasted until 1990?
Who was the first black president of South Africa?
What is apartheid.
Who is Nelson Mandela
This period from 1868–1912 marked Japan's rapid modernization and westernization.
Japan was different from other Asian nations because instead of being colonized, it became this.
What is the Meiji Restoration
Imperial Power
This French philosopher believed in separation of powers in government.
What is Montesquieu
These were the 5 M.A.N.I.A causes of World War 1. Define all 5 of them. Who was killed?
What is militarism, alliances, nationalism, imperialism, and the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand
What term did Winston Churchill use to describe the division between democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe?
What event involved the U.S., Britain, and France flying supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade
What is the Iron Curtain
What is the Berlin Airlift
This 1884–1885 meeting of European powers set the rules for the colonization of Africa and aimed to avoid conflict among imperial nations and lead to the?
Define Glasnot, Perestroika and Detente
Perestroika: Included a market base econony in USSR
Glasnost: Freedom of speech/expression (Openess)
Detente: Cooling of tensions