Global 2 Quarterly Review

A Cold War alliance made between the nations of the US, Canada and Western Europe to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country.

• NAFTA

• NATO

• SEATO

• Warsaw Pact

A policy of non-participation in international economic and political relations

• Collective Security

• Nonalignment

• Isolationism

• Diplomacy

The revolution that began in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.

• Russian Revolution

• Chinese Cultural Revolution

• French Revolution

• Latin American Wars for Independence

A famine in 1845 when the main crop of Ireland, potatoes, was destroyed by disease. Irish farmers grew other food items, such as wheat and oats, but Great Britain required them to export those items to them, leaving nothing for the Irish to live on. As a result, over 1 million Irish died of starvation or disease, while millions of others migrated to the United States.

• Irish Potato Famine

• Columbian Exchange

• Diaspora

• Great Purge

A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition

• Fascism

• Communism

• Absolute Monarchy

• Democracy

an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations

• League of Nations

• Berlin Conference

• United Nations

• Warsaw Pact

What was the Industrial Revolution?

• People were revolting against big business

• People were revolting against the banks

• The Stock Market Crashed

• time when goods and products were made very quickly in factories using machines

Capitalism is to private ownership as communism is to

• supply and demand
• state control
• self-determination
• laissez-faire

Which two major ideas are contained in the writings of Karl Marx?

• survival of the fittest and natural selection

• class struggle and revolutionary change

• separation of powers and checks and balances

• monotheism and religious tolerance

During the 1800s, reform legislation passed in Great Britain, France, and Germany led to

• formation of zaibatsu, greater equality for men, and establishment of a banking system

• legalizing trade unions, setting minimum wages, and limiting child labor

• government-owned factories, establishment of five-year plans, and limits placed on immigration

• bans on overseas trade, mandatory military service, and universal suffrage for women