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15th - 18th Century Colonialism
19th Century Colonialism
WWI & WWII
Revolutions
Islamism
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Upon being the first European to meet the Taino Caribbean Islanders, he said they would make good slaves.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This was a rapid change in the means of production from human to machinery based, creating a more efficiency. It began in England where coal was plentiful and could power steam engines.
What is the Industrial Revolution
100
These are the allied powers in WWII.
What is England, France, the USA, China, USSR
100
This economic and political system advocates a classless society where all property is share equally by the proletariat.
What is communism?
100
This group began using violence to fight for an Islamic state in Egypt after WWI. They actually gained the presidency in elections in 2012, but lost power after creating an authoritarian state.
What is the Muslim Brotherhood?
200
This man conquered the Incans and their army of 80,000 with a few hundred Spaniards.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
200
This is what happened at the 1885 Berlin Conference.
What is that European nations decided that whomever reached a section in Africa first could colonize it. This would reduce fighting between Europeans.
200
This is the name of the republic that existed in Germany after WWI and before the rise of Hitler.
What is the Weimar Republic?
200
These are the causes of the Russian Revolution.
What are lack of food, WWI, and an oppressive Czar, Nicholas II.
200
This sect of Islam promotes violence Jihad against anyone who doesn't believe what they believe. It advocates suicide bombings despite the Koran's clear denunciation of suicide. It is a sect supported by the Saudi Arabian government, which is supported by oil money.
What is Wahhabism?
300
These are the factors that motivated Europeans to explore and colonize other places.
What is God, Glory, and Gold?
300
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 led to this transfer of power.
What is the transfer of British control in India from the British East India Company to the government.
300
These are the causes of WWI.
What is alliance building, military buildup, competition resulting from imperialism(empire building), and nationalism (pride in country) and Franz Ferdinand was shot?
300
The Terror or Great Purge in the USSR refers to this.
What is when Stalin decided to "purge" the USSR of all his enemies during the 1930s. He killed rival communists, capitalists, religious people, and random people to show his power. Overall, 700,000 were executed. More were sent to Siberia.
300
These are the causes of the Iranian Revolution.
What is ... There was an oppressive dictatorship led by the Shah. People who were pro-democracy didn't like this. The Shah supported Western ideas like women in the workplace. Islamists didn't like this. The Shah was supported by America so he was seen as an imperial puppet.
400
These are the people who started the trans-atlantic slave trade.
Who are the Portuguese?
400
The Opium Wars in China (1839 - 1860) led to these very important outcomes.
What is that the British gain control over Chinese tariffs, they gained the right to trade in certain ports, and they gained Hong Kong. Effectively, this gave the British control over the Chinese economy, which they then shared with other European powers.
400
How did Hitler slowly implement his program to kill all the Jews? Begin by explaining how he first spread hatred to eliminating Jews.
What is by first spreading anti-semitic propaganda, then creating the 1935 Nuremberg Laws (which took away Jewish property, citizenship, and made them wear gold stars), 1938 Kristalnacht where the government encouraged violence against Jews, then moving Jews into Ghettos, and then concentration camps, and then death.
400
These are some successes of communism in the USSR and China.
What is rapid initial economic growth, feelings of equality, universal health care, education, and feminism.
400
This is why many Arab nations do not like Israel.
What is that Israel is seen as a tool of Western Imperialism and the the Nazis taught the Arabs how to be anti-semitic and the Jews did take some land from Palestinians?
500
These is Jared Diamond's explanation for how geography gave Europeans the advantage over other peoples.
What is that Europe lies on an east-west axis, which gives is an advantage because information and ideas travel more easily than north to south. This allowed the development of stronger technology. Additionally, Eurasians happened to have more animals and plants that could easily be domesticated, leading to more advanced technologies in agriculture and the development of deadly diseases.
500
This is called an Extractive Economic Cycle.
What is when a country has an economic system in place that benefits the ruling elite without helping the workers or rest of society. This system can remain even if the ruling elite change. This is a system often implemented by European colonialist powers that still lasts today in many former colonies like Zimbabwe.
500
These are all the reasons a German would follow Hitler.
What is that Germans were humiliated after WWI and fascist Hitler supported nationalism and a rise of the old, great Germany; the democratic government signed the humiliating treaty of Versailles and Germans blamed them; Hitler blamed Germany's problems on everyone EXCEPT the Germans; Germany was in huge debt after WWI due to the Treaty of Versailles and there was massive inflation so people were looking for a change; Hitler promised economic growth.
500
These are some reasons why communism has not been successful.
What is economic stagnation and moral failings.
500
This is why there are so many authoritarian regimes in the Middle East.
What is that after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the British and French supported dictators friendly to foreigners. Then, amongst political chaos and the creation of Israel, military dictators gained more power because Arabs wanted to seem stable and powerful. Then, starting in the 1970s, oil money supported dictators because they could pay their armies and secret police?