Nations and Colonies World Wars Interwar Europe Cold War Throwback
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What is Imperialism?
This policy entails the domination by a country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country, region, or people.
100
What is Self-Determination?
 This principle, introduced by American president Woodrow Wilson, reflected the right of a people to have its own state, free of foreign domination
100
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
 This agreement, signed at the end of WWI, placed sole responsibility for the conflict on Germany and its allies and left Germany with a bill for reparations that would take generations to pay
100
What is the Warsaw Pact?
 This 1955 agreement to coordinate military planning among the states under Soviet control was a response to the formation of NATO in 1949
100
What is Versailles?
This is the palace Louis XIV designed to reflect the imperatives of monarchical authority
200
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
Named prime minister of Prussia in the early 1860s, this man created the North German Confederation and eventually became the architect of German unification.
200
What is the Marshall Plan?
 This American initiative offered economic aid starting in 1948 to all European nations still recovering from WWII
200
What is Mussolini?
 This Italian leader founded the National Fascist Party in 1919 and developed an almost cult-like following among his supporters
200
What is the Iron Curtain?
 In 1946, Churchill used this term to refer to the division between Western Europe and the nations under Soviet domination
200
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This document, which was passed by the National Assembly in 1789, reflected the notion that rights came with being born human, but women and slaves were not included
300
What is the Suez Canal Crisis?
This conflict began in 1956 when Nasser nationalized a strategic waterway in Egypt that had previously been under European control
300
What is Pearl Harbor?
 An attack on this American base on December 7, 1941 brought the US into WWII
300
What is Totalitarianism?
 This is a form of government that seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state
300
What is Détente?
 This period of the Cold War, from approximately 1962 to 1976, was marked by a relaxation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States
300
What are Bills of Exchange?
These promissory notes, which acted like a check does today, made global trade possible.
400
What is Social Darwinism?
This imperialist ideology was based on a belief that concepts of evolution justified the exploitation by the “superior races” of “lesser breeds without the law"
400
What is Blitzkrieg (Lightening War)?
 This military strategy involves striking with speed and power, implementing tactical concepts of a mobile armored offensive. It was very effectively employed by the Germans at the start of WWII
400
What is Appeasement?
 This policy entailed giving in to Germany’s demands in the hope that a satisfied Hitler would not drag Europe through another world war
400
What is Glasnost?
 This reform, implemented by Mikhail Gorbachev, entailed creating openness in government combined with a greater degree of free expression
400
What is the Sale of Indulgences?
This a Catholic practice, which many people objected to, that allowed you to pay money to reduce the amount of time a soul would suffer in Purgatory.
500
What is the Berlin Conference?
 During this international conference in 1884, European leaders laid ground rules for the development and partition of Africa.
500
What is the British Royal Air Force?
 This branch of the military protected England’s coast and prevented Hitler from being able to cross the English Channel and invade Britain
500
What is Irrationalism?
 Followers of this philosophy believed that animal instincts, impulses and drives determined human behavior. Contrary to the Enlightenment philosophers, they thought reason only exercised a limited influence on how humans behaved
500
What is MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction)?
This policy constituted a major new approach to the prevention of nuclear war: if each side had the capacity to inflict unacceptable casualties on the other after a first attack, this should restrain either side from launching a first attack
500
What are the June Days?
This is a period of the 1848 Revolution in France during which workers protested the closing of cooperative workshops by building barricades and the Second Republic’s troops repressed the uprising, killing thousands.






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