Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution began in what country?
Great Britain
Karl Marx's ideas would lead to the rise of what political system?
Communism
What country would become the most powerful of the European imperial nations?
Great Britain
Who was assassinated, sparking WWI?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What was the majority group within the Communist party in Russia?
Bolsheviks
Who invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts?
Eli Whitney
What is the economic policy that allows businesses to operate without government interference?
Laissez-Faire
What war was fought between China and Great Britain over the smuggling of a drug?
Opium War
WWI was fought over the course of what years?
1914-1918
Who led the Bolsheviks?
Vladamir Lenin
What were developed to gives workers a voice against employers?
Labor Unions
Adam Smith wrote what book defending the ideas of Capitalism?
The Wealth of Nations
What ship mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor of Cuba, sparking the Spanish-American War?
U.S.S. Maine
What was the name of Woodrow Wilson's peace plan?
Fourteen Points
In what city, formerly known as St. Petersburg, did major strikes and riots occur?
Petrograd
What were the 3 things labor unions fought for?
Better hours, pay and working conditions
Karl Marx believed that capitalism had divided the world into what two groups?
Name the 3 factors of Imperialism.
1. Nationalism
2. Industrial Revolution
3. Religious and Cultural superiority
Why was the first battle of the Marne significant?
Symbolized the abandonment of the Schlieffen Plan
What group was the minority of the Communist party in Russia?
Mensheviks
What is an agreement reached between Labor Unions and employers?
Collective Bargaining
What is a political philosophy that advocates the glorification of the state, a single-party system with a strong ruler, and an aggressive form of nationalism
Fascism
What warned European powers not to interfere in the countries of the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
Name the members of the Big Four and the country each represented.
U.S. = Woodrow Wilson
France= Georges Clemenceau
Italy = Vittorio Orlando
Great Britain = David Lloyd George
Who led the "Red" Army during the Russian Civil War?
Leon Trotsky