The geographic area of India was controlled by which Gunpowder Empire?

Who was the Taj Mahal built to honor?

The Qing Dynasty in China was founded by which group of people?

Babur was the first great leader of which empire?

Suleyman was a leader of which empire?

Abbas was a leader of which Gunpowder Empire?

The Ming Dynasty, which followed the Yuan Dynasty, showed a reinstatement of a true Chinese dynasty. Who is credited with starting the Ming Dynasty?

The geographic areas of Anatolia/Turkey, eastern Europe, and northern Africa were controlled by which Gunpowder Empire?

The geographic area of Persia/Iran was controlled by which Gunpowder Empire?

Much like Hammurabi and Justinian, which leader of a Gunpowder Empire created a law code & was known as "the Lawgiver"?

John Locke was a philosophe who believed people were born with three natural rights. What were these rights?

___________________ fought for religious freedom, reason, and free speech.

Rousseau believed that all people were ______________ and titles of nobility should be taken away.

Hobbes was a believer in absolute monarchy with no ___________________.

Locke believed that a government's power comes from the _________________.

Rousseau inspired many leaders of the ___________________.

Hobbes believed that all people are naturally _______________.

What theory is a country using if they sell more than they buy?

The 5 core beliefs of the __________________ are:

1) Reason

2) Nature

3) Progress

4) Happiness

5) Liberty

The English Parliament requested that Mary (Queen of Scots) and William of Orange (her husband) come in to take the throne from James II in a bloodless overthrow, which was known as the ________________________.

On July 14th, a mob stormed a prison in France looking for gunpowder to use to fight for their revolutionary principals. What was this prison called?

The Declaration of Independence was based on the teachings of Locke and the philosophes. Who is credited with being the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

Which of the following had the most significant impact on the Age of Revolutions?

Throughout the history of the world, only one country has had a successful slave revolt. What country was it?

_________________ colonists believed that they had the right to rebel against England because the king had broken the Social Contract.

Motivation to fight, errors by their enemies, and travel issues were three reasons that the American colonists were able to win their independence from __________________.

________________ was the first country to put enlightenment ideals in the foundation of their government.

Which estate(s) paid almost all of the taxes prior to the French Revolution?

The middle class in France, also known as the bourgeoisie, embraced the ideals and principles of the ________________.

_________________ formed the Committee of Public Safety in order to protect the people of France. They ended up executing anyone who went against his ideas in an era known as the "Reign of Terror". Eventually, his fellow revolutionaries removed him from power.

The primary goal of the _____________________ was to protect the French Revolution from the people who did not agree with it.

After his defeat in Russia, ________________ was exiled to the island of Elba.

To reinstate royal families that had been dethroned by Napoleon, establish a balance of power throughout Europe, and surround France with strong neighboring countries were 3 goals of the _____________________.

The Latin American revolutions (other than Mexico and Haiti) were led by what group of people?

Touissaint L'Ouverture led a revolt of enslaved Africans in __________________.

________________'s fight for independence was different than other countries during the Age of Revolutions because there was no bloodshed.

_________________ & _________________ are responsible for leading the South American wars of independence.

_________________ is known as 'the father of capitalism.' He felt that the government should stay out of business affairs, which was represented by the phrase laissez faire.

Political disunity was a key factor that held back the industrialization of ________________.

________________ predicted that one day that one day there would be a society with no social classes or a classless society.

The steam engine was an invention that heavily contributed to the _________________.

The abolition of slavery, fight for women's rights, and limits on child labor were changes that occurred as a result of _______________.

The industrialization of which of the following countries was very similar to Germany for these 3 reasons:

-both became industrial and military giants by the late 1800s

-both learned ways of modernization from western nations

-both became imperialistic after the industrial revolution

Industrialized nations needed a lot of raw materials and natural resources to drive their industries. This forced them to start to have to get their resources from countries who were not industrialized. This was the factor that led to the rise of ___________________.

_________________ predicted that socialism would replace capitalism throughout Europe after workers began to go against factory owners.

The idea that Europeans had towards Africans which said they had to take care of and watch over them is known as __________________.

The following were causes of European ___________________: need for resources/materials for industry, competition over new places to sell to, and duty to bring progress in technology to other countries.

The natural boundaries of ____________ were unnatural and caused conflict among native people as a result of the Berlin Conference of 1884.

_______________ was never fully colonized, but spheres of influence were set up there that gave foreign countries control of trade in areas throughout the country.

The ____________ were forced to imitate & embrace various ideas from the west after the Treaty of Kanagawa of 1854.

The Treaty of Kanagawa opened two ports in Japan after they 'negotiated' with __________________.

The rumor of cartridges for rifles being greased with beef & pork fat sparked the Indian Revolt of 1857, which is also called the _______________ Rebellion (or Mutiny).

Chinese peasants made an attempt to drive all foreigners out of China in the 1900s known as the Boxer Rebellion. The results of this were a weakened __________ dynasty and foreign influences in China.

Realpolitik=______________________

During the 19th century, ________________ got many things from Germany. These things included imitating their military, basing their constitution & government off German ideas, and modernizing using German ideas.

In southern Germany, Catholic Germans became more supportive of __________________ after the Franco-Prussian War.

Realpolitik=______________________

The Hapsburg Dynasty in ________________ fell apart towrads the end of WWI.

The Treaty of Versailles was drafted at the Paris peace conference and officially ended WWI. However, this treaty caused bitterness & hatred among many nations (especially ______________ because they were given the "war guilt clause").

Who was a Bolshevik revolutionary & 1st ruler of communist 'mother' Russia?

Who were the Bolsheviks?

What was the purpose of Stalin's Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union?

The Civil War fought in _____________ was like a scrimmage, or a training practice, for Hitler & Mussolini's armies to get warmed up to the style of fighting for WWII.

In the years leading up to the start of WWII, there were several acts of aggression taking place throughout Asia, Europe, and Africa. One example of __________________ aggression was the Rape of Nanjing in China.

Germany's Afrika Korps were led by General Erwin Rommell & were defeated at the Battle of El Alamein. Rommell's nickname was the "__________________".

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor sparked the United States to officially enter the war. Who was the president of the United States when Pearl Harbor happened?

Which of the following battles weakened the Germans and put them on the defensive (HINT: cold winters helped)?

What country did the Allies liberate with the D-Day invasion?This was the largest sea and land attack in all of history

The Japanese were forced to withdraw from the Solomon Islands when Douglas MacArthur led U.S. forces and prevented the Japanese from setting up _____________ on the island of Guadalcanal.

Prseident Truman ordered the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.... Why?

During Imperialism in Africa, Ethiopia was able to win its independence against one of the European countries. During the Interwar Years, that same European country now had a Fascist leader named Mussolini. They returned to & successfully took over Ethiopia... What European country was it?

Francisco Franco was a Fascist leader in _______________, where he started a civil war to rise to power.

What country was split into 4 zones controlled by the Allied Powers as a result of the Yalta Conference?

The Nazis were a political party in Germany who wanted to combat Communism and overturn the _____________________.

During the early 1930s, Japan, Italy, and Germany all three successfully invaded other nations. These three countries all fought for the ____________ Powers during WWII.

The United States provided a large amount of economic aid to Europe after WWII through the ______________________.

Nazi leaders were put on trial for war crimes committed during WWII in _____________________.

The Warsaw Pact was an alliance formed by European Communist nations and the Soviet Union in response to _____________.

At the Potsdam Conference, it was decided that ___________ would have to surrender unconditionally to end the war.

The "Big Three" who met at the Yalta Conference were Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt... What countries did these guys each represent?

The BEST description of the holocaust would be...

The League of Nations was created following the end of WWI in an attempt to prevent another world war from ever occurring and maintain peace. What was the name of the organization similar to this during & after WWII?

Soviet Union: Warsaw Pact:: United States: _________________

The Warsaw Pact was an alliance formed by European Communist nations and the Soviet Union in response to _____________.

Which of the following guys headed up the efforts to draft a constitution in Japan?

All of the following were Fascist leaders of their country EXCEPT.....

The United States adopted a policy of containment to attempt to stop _____________ influence & the spread of Communism.

All of the following were direct results of ICBMs being made EXCEPT:

Once the Hydrogen bomb was created, what weapon was made irrelevant?

In 1947, the area of Palestine was divided into a Palestinian state and a Jewish state by who?

Mao Zedong led the Communists & Chang Kai-Shek led the Nationalists during what Civil War?

Nationalist forces from ______________ defeated France at Dien Bien Phu.

Khrushchev removed Soviet nuclear warheads from Cuba and the United States removed nuclear warheads from Turkey.... this ended which of the following?

Which of the following groups did NOT have claims to Israel?

___________________ led the independence movement of the Gold Coast, which became Ghana.

Nehru became the first Prime Minister of independent ______________.

Peasants in _______________ were aligned with the Communists because the Communists gave land to the farmers.

Many students in China who were protesting their lack of political freedom in _________________ were killed.

East Germans began to storm the gates and protest in large numbers, which led to the fall of ________________. (HINT: This represented the end of communism in Europe)

In South Africa, _____________ led the anti-Apartheid movement.

Nehru & Gandhi both tried to help the poor & led the independence movement in __________________.

Characteristics of a truly global economy include financial interactions that cross international borders among whom?

_____________ was created to ensure trade between nations went as smoothly as possible.

What was the original purpose of the internet?

___________________ affected worldwide communications by turning the world into a "global village"

What impact has television & mass media had globally?

What was it called when Bosnian Serbs used violence to rid Bosnia of its Muslim population?

Where was there an attempted genocide between the Hutu descendants and the Tutsi descendants?

A movement aiming to encourage and strengthen bonds between ethnic groups of African descent & improve Africa after imperialism and decolonization.....

A movement aiming to encourage and strengthen bonds between ethnic groups of Arab descent & improve the Middle East.....

First female prime minister of Britain...

First female prime minister of Israel...

First female prime minister of India who was assassinated by Sikh nationalists and her own bodyguards...