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Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
Nation Building
The World at War
Towards the Present day
100
The forceful overthrow of a government
What is a coup d'état?
100
Machines rapidly produce large quantities of goods at factories.
What is the Factory System?
100
These are self-governing countries made up of people with a common cultural background
What are nation-states?
100
This event in June led to the start of the First World War
What is the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
100
Leader of India's independence movement
Who is Gandhi?
200
The meeting of European nations to redraw the map after the defeat of Napoleon
What is the Congress of Vienna?
200
I developed a treatment for smallpox
Who is Edward Jenner?
200
This individual controlled the area around Rome before Italy was a united nation
Who is the pope?
200
This strategy cost millions of lives and was not effective against machine guns
What is trench warfare?
200
The United Nations created this state
What is Israel?
300
A movement to preserve the old social order and governments
What is Conservatism?
300
A social system in which businesses are either owned by the workers or controlled by the government
What is socialism?
300
This event ensured that Germany was part of the European competition for colonies
What is German Unification?
300
The Nazis' effort to wipe out the Jewish people
What is the Holocaust?
300
Criminal activity involving the use of violence against civilians to create fear and push for political change
What is terrorism?
400
A movement for individual rights and liberties
What is Liberalism?
400
German philosopher who called for works to unite in a revolution to bring down the capitalist system
Who is Karl Marx?
400
A Prussian Prime Minister who worked on a plan to unify Germany by creating a strong army and economy. One of Mr. Nesser's favorite people in history.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
400
The "crown jewel" of the British Empire; it was divided into two countries in 1947; one had a Hindu majority and one had a Muslim majority
What is India?
400
The two conflicting political ideas that were the center of the Cold War
What are communism and democracy?
500
A Caribbean island under French rule that was the first to gain independence
What is Haiti?
500
This social class grew rapidly during the Industrial revolution and included clerks, doctors and factory managers.
What is the middle class?
500
The document that ensured American presence in Latin American Affairs
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
500
A period of tension between world superpowers that was signified by the construction of a wall in Berlin
What is the Cold War?
500
The destruction of natural resources by humans by the means of cutting down trees and disrupting water supplies
What is pollution?