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This industry saw the most significant change during the Industrial Revolution.
Textile
100
"The economic theory that trade generates wealth .... which a government should encourage by means of [controlling trade in its territories.]
Mercantilism
100
The last legislative body under a French monarch. Consisted of the three estates of France, hence its name.
The Estates General of 1789
100
The Manhattan Project was a secret U.S. government project aimed at producing this.
The Atomic Bomb
100
The execution of King Louis XVI occurred during this phase of the French Revolution.
Radical Phase
200
This refers to Indian soldiers who fought in the British military.
Sepoy
200
17th century Englishman, Thomas Hobbes, wrote this book to discuss the relation between the government and the people, suggesting a "social contract."
Leviathan
200
This agreement signed in 1919 concluded WWI and, by many accounts, laid the foundations for WWII.
The Treaty of Versailles
200
The Great Leap Forward was an example of a communist government exerting control over the national economy and was created by this leader.
Moa Zedong
200
This philosophical thinker if best known for arguing that people have natural rights including life, liberty, and property.
John Locke
300
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These are the names for the three branches of government in the United States of America.
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
300
This political and economic theory is described as: "advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs".
Communism
300
This organization was created to protect western interests against the USSR and the spread of communism.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
300
This political cartoon represents this system of government and social hierarchy.
The Three Estates
300
This emperor's invasion of Spain prevented it from adequately protecting it's possessions across the Atlantic.
Napolean
400
"An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection."
Social Contract
400
This picture* best describes this economic situation.
*The kite is made of cash.
Hyperinflation
400
This is the common term for the competition between the United States and USSR to achieve superior spaceflight.
The Space Race
400
He proposed that man's natural rights were to "survive through the use of reason and judgement".
Thomas Hobbes
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400
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These 5 terms comprise the acronym: M.A.N.I.A.
Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, Assassination
500
This term is defined as: "prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control".
Oppression
500
"The merging or assimilation of several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, thus asserting an underlying unity and allowing for an inclusive approach to other faiths." (i.e. Sikhism)
Syncretic Religion
500
The leader of the Jacobin faction during the infamous "Reign of Terror" in the French Revolution.
Maximillian Robespierre
500
"An economic and social class that own little or no capital such that they depend on their labor to make a living".
Proletariat
500
The term that best describes the social class that came to own the means of production during modern industrialization, with primary concerns focusing on property value, preservation of capital, and ensuring the perpetuation of economic supremacy?
Bourgeoisie
600
This group believed in radical communist revolution to bring about stability and equality in Russia.
Bolsheviks
600
This was the primary cause for "The Scramble for Africa".
Raw resources for manufacturing
600
This was the method used by US Commodore Matthew Perry to force the opening of Japan.
Gunboat Diplomacy
600
The heir to the Austro-Hungarian thrown was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
600
This was the primary reason the Dutch were able to trade with Japan during the Tokugawa period.
The Dutch had little desire to religiously convert the Japanese people.
700
This political organization formed because they believed the Indian people lacked a voice in the top levels of administration and in the local assemblies under the British Raj.
The Indian National Congress (INC)
700
"A principle of US policy, originated in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US."
The Monroe Doctrine
700
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This war included: the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the expansion of the Russian Empire in the preceding Russo-Turkish Wars, and the British and French preference to preserve the Ottoman Empire to maintain the balance of power in Europe.
The Crimean War
700
The Opium crisis in China between the 1700s-1800s was caused by which country?
Great Britain
700
The principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.
Popular Sovereignty
800
This social class held more power than any other during the Tokugawa Feudal period.
Shogun
800
During this event between 1884-1885, European countries met to divide up the continent of Africa.
The Berlin Conference
800
This work (the title of which translates to "My Struggle") describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
Mein Kampf
800
This man-made waterway connects the Mediterranean and the Red seas.
Suez Canal
800
This is the leader for a form government in the 18th century in which an absolute monarch pursues legal, social, and educational reforms inspired by the Enlightenment.
Enlightened Despot
900
The conclusion of this war finally forced the end of colonialism in both India and Africa.
World War II
900
The pact created by the National Assembly that led to the composition of The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen.
The Tennis Court Oath
900
The seal of Tsar Ivan III represented a cultural link with which empire?
The Byzantine Empire
900
Fearing that the paramilitary SA (Nazi Party's "Assault Division") had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder hundreds of perceived opponents during this infamous event.
The Night of Long Knives
900
Karl Marx discussed the Bourgeoise, the middle class, as being materialistic and concerned with creature comforts in this ideology.
Socialism/Communism
1000
This agreement was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
The Warsaw Pact
1000
This is the definition of a Proxy War.
Conflict fought between two superpowers by their allies in different parts of the world.
1000
This was the primary goal of the Boxer Rebellion in China.
A movement to eradicate all foreign influence in China
1000
This plan by German Count von Schlieffen was designed to secure victory in WWI against France by invading the Netherlands and Belgium instead of going through the common border.
The Schlieffen Plan
1000
The system through which Christians were drafted to serve as Ottoman Janissaries.
Devshirme System
1100
This document, written in 1917, showed Britain's support for the creation of a Jewish state in the Middle East, and contributed to deciding the region's long-term fate.
The Balfour Declaration
1100
The Taiping Rebellion is considered an example of this kind of war in China's history.
Civil War
1100
The name of the Chinese eunuch and explorer between 1405 - 1422.
Zheng He
1100
This is believed to be the primary cause of the Ottoman Empire's decline in the 19th century.
Independance movements inspired by ethnic nationalism
1100
This was the primary cause of population decline amongst Native American populations in Mexico during the 1500's.
Disease
1200
These revolutions stretching between Europe, the Carribean, and the Americas were inspired by Enlightenment ideas. (I will accept multiple answers)
The United States, French, Haitian, Latin American
1200
Based on a theory regarding biological sciences, this belief "was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform".
Social Darwinism
1200
This event in Russia, 1905, involved unarmed demonstrators being fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II to present a petition.
Bloody Sunday
1200
This was a secret plan of Britain and France to divide up the Middle East in 1916, essentially deciding who would control what parts of the partitioned Ottoman Empire after the conclusion of WWI.
Sykes-Picot Agreement
1200
This man-made famine caused by Joseph Stalin's "Five Year Plan", and result in the deaths of millions of Ukrainians between 1932 - 1933.
The Holodomor
1300
This political party, established in India in 1906, had the goal of securing Muslim interests on the Indian subcontinent.
The Muslim League
1300
Although it had been planned before WW1, the German army was unsuccessful it because this happened to the east.
The Russians mobilized their army faster than expected.
1300
What does this political cartoon depict?
Treaty of Versailles after WWI
1300
This South American empire built a massive road network used by messengers known as chasquis.
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1300
Failures of the Weimar Republic included: unsuccessful leadership, ineffective handling of inflation, political violence, unemployment, and the German people (who were part of a federal monarchy in WWI) being unfamiliar with this new type of government.
Being a Democracy
