World War I
Tsar Nicolas II was the leader during the Russo-Japanese War, the crushing defeats during WWI, and eventually dethroned during this _____________
Russian Revolution
Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar led independence movements (revolutions) in
Latin America
Columbus accidentally "discovered" America when he was hoping to...
Find a quicker route to India/Asia
This philosophical movement emphasized "natural rights" and the idea that reason and logic, rather than tradition or religion, should govern human affairs.
The Enlightenment.
This scientist created laws of motion and is credited with beginning the enlightenment.
Sir Isaac Newton
Fun fact: He also once stuck a needle in his eye just to see what would happen.
This MAIN cause of WWI refers to the domination of foreign lands by a powerful state far away.
Imperialism.
The movement/era that most influenced the American Revolution, French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, and Latin American Revolutions
Enlightenment
This popular animal did not exist on the American continents until the Colombian Exchange, and has its heritage in Central Asia/Middle East.
Horses
This philosophy emphasizes private ownership of land and the means of production, as well as the free exchange of goods and services in a market economy.
Capitalism.
Nicholas Copernicus promoted a model of the universe in which the sun is at the center this model was called the...
heliocentric
The "A" in the "MAIN" Causes of WWI acronym stands for...
Alliances
What were the three main causes of the French Revolution?
1. Estate System/Disparity between poor and noble
2. Debt (from Am. Revolution/Famine)
3. Enlightenment ideas
This was the name for the exchange of people, goods & diseases between the Old world & New World.
Columbian exchange; OR Triangle Trade.
This French Enlightenment thinker is responsible for popularizing the idea of separating church and state.
Voltaire
(The V is like an axe that separates Church and State)
This English king was a Protestant reformer who broke with the Catholic Church after the Pope refused to give him a divorce from his first wife Catherine
Henry VIII (8th)
This is the increased buildup of arms and an intense glorification of the military in a given society.
Militarism.
This historical event was responsible for people moving into cities and a change from an agrarian, cottage economy to one dominated by industry and machine
Industrial Revolution
The Atlantic Slave Trade started after this group, initially used by colonial powers as a slave labor force, began rapidly dying off from European diseases.
Indigenous/Native Americans
This two-word term describes a relationship in which the citizens remain loyal to a government who, in return, provides safety and security.
Social Contract
Belief in a master race, rise of totalitarianism and nationalism and anti-Semitism are all causes of....?
Holocaust/genocide
This is a word (and MAIN cause of WWI) which means an intense pride in one's country OR the desire of a given ethnic group to form a country corresponding to that identity.
Nationalism
In this time period during the French Revolution, Robespierre and the Jacobins executed or imprisoned large numbers of enemies.
Reign of Terror
What year is considered the beginning of the Colombian Exchange?
1492
This economic philosophy emphasizes the public ownership of goods, services and the means of production in a society. Often seen as the "midpoint" on the way to something else.
Socialism
After Napoleon was defeated European countries sought to establish stability after years of war and revolution at the...
Congress of Vienna
This organization was created after WWI to provide a forum for resolving international disputes, but failed because it was weak and had no power to enforce any decisions it made.
League of Nations
William and Mary became king and queen of England during a bloodless revolution called the...
Glorious Revolution
This European power had, at one point, colonies in the Caribbean, as well as modern day Bolivia and Florida. Colombus' home.
Spain
A philosophy that began by emphasizing individual rights (and eventually free market capitalism during the Industrial Revolution).
Liberalism
This writer is known as the "father of Capitalism" despite not actually using the term in his famous work The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Who was the leader of Germany during WWI?
Kaiser Wilhelm II
This man started the protestant reformation with his "99 theses" that he nailed to the door of a church.
Martin Luther
This was the name for an era of European history in which privateers and adventurers like Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan and others set sail in search of "New" lands.
Age of Exploration.
The term Renaissance means...
Rebirth
The famous empire included the modern nations of Turkey and Greece, but disintegrated after siding with Germany in WWI.
Ottoman Empire