Enlightenment & Revolution
This movement emphasized reason, progress, and humanity’s ability to reshape society.
What is the Enlightenment?
This nation was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
What is United Kingdom?
This German leader unified Germany through “blood and iron.”
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
The assassination of this man sparked World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Japan attacked this American naval base in 1941.
What is Attack on Pearl Harbor?
This dictator ruled the Soviet Union after Lenin.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This Enlightenment thinker argued for separation of powers in government.
Who is Montesquieu?
This invention revolutionized transportation during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam locomotive?
This ideology justified imperialism using the idea of “survival of the fittest.”
What is Social Darwinism?
This type of warfare defined much of the Western Front.
What is trench warfare?
This battle is considered the turning point of the Pacific War.
What is the Battle of Midway?
This policy involved giving concessions to Hitler in hopes of avoiding war.
What is appeasement?
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” was written by this philosopher.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
Karl Marx believed history was driven primarily by this.
What is class struggle?
The Berlin Conference divided this continent among European powers.
What is Africa?
This treaty officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This Allied strategy involved capturing key islands while bypassing others.
What is island hopping?
This battle became the turning point on the Eastern Front.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
From a Classical Christian perspective, the Enlightenment is often criticized for elevating this above divine authority.
What is human autonomy or human reason?
Adam Smith supported this economic system based on free-market competition.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
This African nation successfully resisted European colonization in the late nineteenth century.
What is Ethiopia?
The MAIN causes of World War I stand for Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and this.
What is Nationalism?
The Manhattan Project developed this weapon.
What is the atomic bomb?
This event refers to the systematic murder of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis.
What is the Holocaust?
This publication by Denis Diderot attempted to gather and spread all human knowledge.
What is the Encyclopédie?
“The factory bell replaced the rhythms of nature” describes this major transformation.
What is industrialized factory labor?
From a Christian worldview, nationalism becomes dangerous when loyalty to the nation replaces this.
What is loyalty or obedience to God?
This psychological condition described trauma experienced by many soldiers during World War I.
What is shell shock?
The course theme “Man Ascendant” most closely refers to this historical development.
What is increasing confidence in human power, autonomy, and reason?
“All within the state, nothing outside the state” reflects this political ideology.
What is totalitarianism?