Empire's End
By the end of the 20th century, both land-based and maritime empires had largely given way to these.
What are new states?
List two of the four primary causes of World War I often abbreviated as M.A.I.N.
What are Imperialism, Nationalism, Alliance Systems, or Militarism?
This global economic disaster, beginning in 1929, forced governments to take a more active role in their economies.
What is the Great Depression?
This "unsustainable" document, signed at the end of WWI, as a cause of the next world war.
What is the peace settlement (Treaty of Versailles)?
These two leaders are the CED's primary examples of "Western democracies" mobilizing for war.
Who are Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt?
This African nation experienced a horrific genocide in the 1990s targeting the Tutsi population.
What is Rwanda?
At the start of the 20th century, this global region dominated the world political order.
What is the West?
Governments used these four methods—propaganda, art, media, and intense nationalism—to achieve this goal for the war effort.
What is mobilizing populations?
Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet government used these to control the national economy, often with repressive results
What are Five Year Plans?
This Japanese-led entity in Asia represented the empire's continued imperialist aspirations.
What is the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (or Manchukuo)?
This revolutionary and devastating weapon, used at the end of the war, forever changed military tactics.
What is the atomic bomb?
This region of the Soviet Union experienced state-sponsored mass atrocities and famine in the 1920s and 1930s.
What is Ukraine?
This Latin American conflict arose as a direct result of a political crisis and a challenge to the existing social order.
What is the Mexican Revolution?
The development of new military technology during WWI led to a significant increase in this grim statistic.
What are wartime casualties?
This U.S. program, initiated by Franklin Roosevelt, is a key example of government intervention in the economy
What is the New Deal?
This specific economic event from the 1930s "engendered" the conditions that led to World War II.
What is the Great Depression?
Totalitarian states mobilized their populations by repressing these, often dominating all aspects of daily life.
What are basic freedoms?
This extremist group in power was responsible for the Holocaust during World War II.
Who are the Nazis?
This land-based empire, along with the Russian and Qing empires, collapsed due to a mix of internal and external factors.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This "total war" was the first in history to mobilize entire populations, including those in colonies.
What is World War I?
Between the world wars, these two imperial states predominantly maintained or even expanded their colonial holdings.
Who are Western and Japanese imperial states?
The rise of this "aggressive" political ideology in Germany under Adolf Hitler was a major cause of World War II.
What is Fascism (or Nazism)?
World War II is classified by this term because governments mobilized all available resources to wage it.
What is a total war?
This Southeast Asian country saw mass atrocities during the late 1970s under a radical regime.
What is Cambodia?
Internal and external pressures in Russia eventually culminated in this specific type of political upheaval.
What is a communist revolution?
This system, established after the war, transferred former German colonies to Great Britain and France.
What is the League of Nations mandate system?
This specific anti-imperial organization in South Asia continued to resist British rule between the wars.
What is the Indian National Congress?
Totalitarian states used these two ideologies to mobilize all state resources and repress basic freedoms during the war.
What are Fascism and Communism?
This specific tactic involves the large-scale use of incendiary devices on urban areas to destroy infrastructure and morale.
What is fire-bombing?
This population was targeted for destruction by the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I.
Who are the Armenians?