The domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region.
What is imperialism?
100
This country became a modern industrial power by adopting the practices of successful western countries.
What is Japan?
100
A deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other.
What is a stalemate?
100
A government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens’ lives.
What is a totalitarian state or totalitarianism?
100
Fascist leader of Germany during WWII.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
200
A situation in which a country imports more than it exports.
What is a trade deficit?
200
In July 1853, a fleet of well-armed American ships commanded by this man sailed into lower Tokyo Bay carrying a letter from U.S. president Fillmore.
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
200
The spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause.
What is propaganda?
200
A rebellious young woman of the 1920s.
What is a flapper?
200
Communist leader of Russia during WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
300
A deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group.
What is genocide?
300
These local strongmen assembled private armies to resist the central government.
What are caudillos?
300
Three of the four main causes of WWI.
What are alliances, nationalism, imperialism, and militarism?
300
Any centralized, authoritarian government that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights.
What is fascism?
300
Fascist leader of Italy during WWII.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
400
This European leader’s activities in the Congo set off a scramble for colonies in Africa by other nations.
Who is King Leopold II of Belgium?
400
Canada became this, a self-governing nation, as a result of the British North America Act of 1867.
What is a dominion?
400
This Allied nation dropped out of the war in 1918.
What is Russia?
400
African American cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
The Nazis' massacre of some six million Jews became known as this.
What is the holocaust?
500
This is how westerners first gained trading rights in China during the 1800s.
What is the opium trade or opium war?
500
This king of Siam, who ruled from 1851 to 1868, helped prevent Siam from becoming a European colony.
Who is Mongkut?
500
President Wilson was only successful in achieving this, one of his fourteen points.
What is the League of Nations?
500
The major economic challenge faced by the Western World during the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
500
This WWI peace settlement ultimately helped cause WWII.