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This acronym AND WORDS represents the four long-term causes of World War I.
What is M.A.I.N.?
This is when a stronger nation takes control of weaker territories for power or resources.
What is imperialism?
This meeting divided Africa among European powers in 1884–1885.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This social class made up most of the population and paid the most taxes in France.
What is the Third Estate?
This country is where the Industrial Revolution began.
What is Great Britain?
This assassination sparked World War I in 1914.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
European nations competed for colonies mainly to gain these three things.
What are land, resources, and power?
These borders created by Europeans often ignored ethnic and cultural groups.
What are colonial borders?
This event in 1789 marked the beginning of the French Revolution.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
This invention powered factories, trains, and steamships during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the Steam Engine?
These two alliance systems existed before World War I.
What are the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente?
This belief claimed stronger nations and races were superior and justified imperialism.
What is Social Darwinism?
This continent was divided by European powers during the Scramble for Africa.
What is Africa?
These ideas inspired people to support democracy, equality, and natural rights.
What are Enlightenment ideas?
This movement of people from rural areas into cities increased during industrialization.
What is urbanization?
This style of warfare led to stalemate on the Western Front.
What is trench warfare?
This phrase described Europe’s belief that they should spread their culture to others.
What is the “civilizing mission”?
This technological change gave Europeans better weapons and transportation to conquer Africa.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This period under Robespierre used violence and executions to defend the Revolution.
What is the Reign of Terror?
This invention increased cotton production and also increased slavery in the American South.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This treaty blamed Germany for World War I and forced reparations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Industrialization encouraged imperialism because nations needed these two things for factories.
What are raw materials and markets?
This African country successfully resisted European colonization during the Scramble for Africa.
What is Ethiopia?
This military leader rose to power after political instability in France.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Industrialized nations wanted these two things from colonies.
What are raw materials and new markets?