REGENTS REVIEW PART #2

LEADERS

100

This South African leader spent 27 years in prison before helping end apartheid.

Nelson Mandela

200

This German leader used "blood and iron" to unify Germany.

Otto Von Bismarck

300

This Soviet leader introduced glasnost and perestroika.

Mikhail Gorbachev

400

This Chinese Communist leader launched the Cultural Revolution.

Mao Zedong

500

This Indian leader promoted nonviolent resistance against British rule.

Ghandi

REVOLUTIONS

100

This revolution began in 1789 and overthrew the Bourbon monarchy.

French Revolution

200

The slogan "Peace, Land, Bread" is associated with this revolution.

Russian Revolution

300

This revolution led to the creation of the first communist state.

Russian Revolution

400

One major result of the French Revolution was the rise of this military leader who eventually became Emperor of France.

Napoleon Bonaparte

500

This revolution began when colonists in Saint-Domingue rose up against French rule and slavery, eventually creating the first independent Black republic.

Haitian Revolution

REGENTS FAVORITES

100

This economic system is based on private ownership and competition.

Capitalism

200

This economic system calls for collective ownership of the means of production.

Socialism

300

This document blamed Germany for World War I.

Treaty of Versailles

400

This policy of separating races existed in South Africa.

Apartheid

500

The genocide of six million Jews during World War II is known as this.

The Holocaust

COLD WAR

100

The Cold War was mainly a rivalry between these two nations.

The United States and The Soviet Union

200

This wall divided East and West Berlin.

The Berlin Wall

300

This crisis brought the U.S. and USSR closest to nuclear war.

The Cuban Missile Crisis

400

The U.S. policy of stopping the spread of communism was called this.

Containment

500

This military alliance was led by the Soviet Union.

The Warsaw Pact

MIXED BAG

100

This policy allowed European nations to build colonies and gain political and economic control over weaker regions.

Imperialism

200

This event marked the beginning of World War I.

Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferninand 

300

This 1941 attack brought the United States into World War II.

Pearl Harbor

400

After World War II, the United States provided billions of dollars to rebuild Western Europe through this program.

The Marshall Plan

500

"Iron Curtain" was the term used by this British leader to describe the division of Europe after World War II.

Winston Churchill