What term is linked with Self-Determination, a group of people wanting their own nation, and is also when people take pride in their country. Ex. The Germany (Otto Von Bismark) and Italy (Garibaldi, Mazzini and Cavour) unified to make their countries.
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Who was Adolf Hitler
Who was a fascist leader in Germany who caused WWII and led the Holocaust?
100
What are the five causes of World War I?
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism and the Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
Before World War II, Britain and France let Hitler take the Sudetenland at the Munich Conference in an attempt to keep peace.
What is Appeasement?
100
Give an example of the United States' policy of containment during the Cold War when we wanted to stop the spread of Communism by the U.S.S.R.
What is Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Vietnam War, and Cuba?
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Who was the Father of Communism?
Who is Karl Marx- wrote the Communist Manifesto in which he encouraged the factory workers to rise up against the capitalist factory owners so that the government would run the economy and there would be no private property or social classes
200
He modernized Japan and reformed society in the late 1800s by borrowing western ideas and then made Japan imperialistic due to the need for raw materials.
Who is Emperor Meiji?
200
This was the international peace organization created after WWI by the Treaty of Versailles, using President Wilson's idea. It failed to prevent WWII.
What is the League of Nations?
200
This was the winning side during WWII made up of nations such as Britain, France, the U.S.S.R. the United States.
Who were the Allied Powers (Allies)?
200
In 1994, a genocide occurred in this African country when the Hutus killed one million Tutsis in this African country.
What is Rwanda?
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Industrialized European countries took over parts of Africa and Asia for raw materials, believing in the "White mans Burden" and Social Darwinism (racial superiority). Reactions against this foreign rule were the Boxer Rebellion in China and Sepoy Mutiny in India.
What is Imperialism?
300
Who was Pol Pot?
Who was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and led a genocide in Cambodia known as the "Killing Fields"?
300
This was a genocide that took place in the Ottoman Empire during WWI.
What was the Armenian Massacre?
300
Who were the 3 countries in the Axis Powers?
Who were Germany, Italy and Japan?
300
Chinese students protested for Democracy in June 1989. Deng Xioping ordered tanks to end the protest and maintain strong communist rule.
What is The Tiananmen Square Massacre?
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Who is Adam Smith?
Who is The father of Capitalism who wrote the Wealth of Nations and believed in Laissez-faire meaning that the government should have a "hands off" role with the economy?
400
Who was Nelson Mandela?
Who is the first black president of South Africa who ended apartheid after being imprisoned for over 27 years?
400
What was the name of the Treaty written after WWI?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
Describe what happened during the Holocaust.
What is millions of Jews, Slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, and many others being killed in concentration camps by Hitler and his Nazis during World War II?
400
Muslims/ Palestinians & Jews have fought over the Holy Land since 1948, an example is the 6-Day War. Although peace agreements like the Oslo Accords of 1993 were signed, tension continues.
What is the Arab- Israeli Conflict?
500
In 1949, the peasants led by Mao Zedong overthrew the government and made China this political system in an attempt to create equality.
What is communism?
500
This man was the totalitarian leader of the USSR. He came to power after Lenin and created Five Year Plans to industrialize the Soviet Union.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
500
Why was Archduke Franz Ferdinand killed and how did this cause WWI?
He was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire and was killed by a Serbian man who didn't want A-H to rule the Balkans. It led to WWI because it caused all the alliances to join the war in order to defend each countries nationalist ideas.
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This international organization formed after World War II with the goals of international cooperation, peace and human rights. It includes the General Assembly and the Security Council.
What is the United Nations?
500
This symbol of the Cold War which separated the capital of East Germany came down in November 1989. It symbolized the decline of communism in Europe and the ending of the Cold War.