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Netherlands, Spain, (Portugal for a while as well), France, and Britain were ________
What is the primary European powers?
The control by one nation of the economic and political life of another nation or region
What is imperialism?
________ gain government power control in Germany, Italy, and other European nation
What is fascists?
The ____ _______ separated Free Western Europe and the Soviet/Communist Eastern Europe
What is the Iron Curtain?
Beginning in late ____ century Britain expanded its empire on every continent
What is the 18th century?
This allowed European nations to produce far more goods than ever before
What is the Industrial Revolution?
in 1939 ____ begins And Europe is thrown into a second war just twenty years after WWI
What is WWII?
East Germany, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belarus, Hungary, fell under ______ _______
What is Soviet control?
By 1890 the British Empire was the _______ the world has ever seen
What is the largest?
European nations looked to conquer lands on other continents to gain more ___ _________
What is raw materials?
At the end of WWII, two nations emerge as ___________ - the United States and the Soviet Union
What is superpowers?
Imperialism is the _____ _____ of WWI
What is major cause?
The ___ never ____ on the _______ Empire
What is the sun never sets on the British Empire?
If one nation controlled more natural resources than other nations, it gave gave that nation more ________ _____
What is economic power?
At the end of the war (1945) the ____ refused to remove their troops from the lands they controlled in Eastern Europe
What is the USSR?
This was in the late 19th century
What is the Age of Imperialism?
Competition led to tension, which led to aggression, which led to ___
What is WWI?
The dividing line ran through _______
What is Germany?