Industrial Revolution
This British economist is known as the father of capitalism.
Who is Adam Smith?
This 1884 event divided Africa among European powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This war tactic involved soldiers in ditches and “No Man’s Land.”
What is trench warfare?
This event marked the beginning of the Holocaust.
What is Kristallnacht?
This system of racial segregation existed in South Africa until the 1990s.
What is apartheid?
These laws were passed to reform labor conditions, particularly for children.
What are the Factory Acts?
This African nation successfully resisted European colonization.
What is Ethiopia?
A 1938 agreement allowed Hitler to annex part of Czechoslovakia.
What is the Munich Conference?
The U.S. and Britain supplied food to this blockaded city from 1947 to 1949.
What is Berlin (Berlin Airlift)?
This Indian leader promoted nonviolent resistance against British rule.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This economic philosophy promotes free markets with little to no government interference.
What is capitalism?
This movement aimed to unify Italy in the 19th century.
What is the Risorgimento?
What acronym describes the main causes of WWI?
What is M-A-I-N (Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism)?
These reforms under Gorbachev aimed to modernize the USSR.
What are Glasnost and Perestroika?
The process of former colonies gaining independence.
What is decolonization?
He authored the Communist Manifesto and believed in a classless society through revolution.
Who is Karl Marx?
The rebellion that weakened the Qing Dynasty and led to future revolution in China.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
This treaty ended WWI and led to Germany's economic collapse.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This country was split by a wall in 1961 to stop emigration to the West.
What is Germany (East Berlin)?
This Communist campaign in China aimed to purge “counter-revolutionaries.”
What is the Cultural Revolution?
Name one major problem caused by industrialization.
What is child labor, pollution, urbanization, or worker exploitation?
This American naval officer opened Japan to trade with the West.
Who is Commodore Perry?
The Bolshevik leader who led the Russian Revolution.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This U.S. action ended WWII in the Pacific.
What are the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This 1989 event symbolized the end of Soviet control in Eastern Europe.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?