Revolution & Nationalism
The first battles of the American Revolutionary War.
Lexington & Concord
A period of agricultural reform in England that produced numerous technological inventions & techniques.
Agricultural Revolution
The ruler of Russia before and during the 1905 revolution.
(Mr. McDonald argues he is one of the Top 5 dumbest rulers to ever exist.)
Tsar/Czar Nicholas II
A Chinese civil war (1850-1864) between the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty & the millenarian movement of the Heavenly Kingdom of Peace. The bloodiest civil war of the 19th century.
Taiping Rebellion
A pair of wars between the Ottoman Empire & various Balkan states over territory in the Balks.
Balkan Wars
A group of colonists that believed using violence was a means of breaking Britain's heavy taxes off of the colonists.
Sons of Liberty
Sociologist & author of The Condition of the Working Class. (Karl Marx's best buddy...)
Friedrich Engels
Russia lost this strategic piece of land to the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).
Hint: It's located in modern-day Northeast China & the Soviet Union would defeat Japan in WW2 to reclaim it.
The leaders of the Qing Dynasty.
Manchu/Manchus
This country sought to expand their reign into parts of the Ottoman Empire that would kickstart the Crimean War.
Russia
The date when Congress voted to declared independence from Great Britain.
July 2nd, 1776
True/False: Children as young as 5/6 years old were employed in factories to perform tasks that only tiny hands could do.
True
True/False: Lenin & the Bolshevik Party lost a democratic election to a liberal party to lead the new Provisional government.
True
Who did Hong Xiuquan claim to be in order to become a central leader figure of the Taiping Rebellion?
Hint: Think religion...
Jesus Christ's younger brother
Creditor
How did the United States of America start?
"Taxation without representation!"
The highest paid occupation for women in the work force in England.
Needlework
This man would supposed to be Vladimir Lenin's successor to lead the Bolsheviks, but Joseph Stalin would beat him to it, eventually exile him, then kill him with agents.
Leon Trotsky
A violent anti-foreign & anti-Christian uprising in China between 1899 & 1901.
Hint: Think sport...
Boxer Rebellion
What exchange occurred after the Treaty of Lausanne that ended the Turkish War of Independence?
Greeks could leave Turkey for Greece (1,100,000)
Muslims could leave Greece for Turkey (380,000)
The national armory of France that fell to French protestors at the beginning of the French Revolution.
The Bastille
How many work hours were considered efficient enough to sustain living for working families?
14
The 2 main goals of revolution happening mostly in the continent of Asia.
1 - Better serving the people.
2 - Modernization
A foreign affairs policy that proposed to keep China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis, preventing any one power from total control of the country.
Open Door Policy
A Turkish army officer, revolutionary, & founder of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President from 1923 until his death in 1938
Mustafa Kemal