US President Wilson's plan after WWI to create lasting peace; did not want to punish Germany; also wanted League of Nations

Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group (Holocaust)

New policy of openness in the Soviet Union; allowed for freedom of speech and dissent or criticism of government; began by Gorbachev in the 1980s

Bloodless revolution in England to end Catholic monarchy; William and Mary signed English Bill of Rights beginning constitutional monarchy

Worldwide economic downturn; high inflation and unemployment

Mao's efforts to collectivize farms and industrialize communist China; huge failure, mass starvation and inferior products created

Led by L'Ouverture, only successful slave revolt in History; inspired by American and French Revolution; gained independence from France in 1804

Created by Copernicus; sun is the center of the Universe; challenged the Church's belief in the geocentric theory (earth is the center)

The systematic mass murder of Jews and many other groups by Nazis during World War II; Final Solution=concentration camps

A stronger, usually developed or industrialized country, takes over the economy and government of a weaker country

Movement of the workforce from in home, hand-made production of goods to mass production of identical items using machines in factories

Identical parts that can be substituted one for the other instead of being hand-made; reduced cost; allowed for mass production; developed by Eli Whitney

Term created by Winston Churchill; line between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe

US policy in WWII Pacific Theater to take each island individually until the US was close enough to attack Japan

Idea that the United States would isolate itself and would not be involved in world issues in an attempt to stay out of European wars such as WWI and II

A colony established to grow cash crops such as sugar, tobacco and indigo. Britain set these up in North American south and Spain and Portugal created in islands

Overthrowing a government and replacing it with another government

People moved from the country where they farmed to the city to find factory jobs. Early factories were built in existing cities near water sources

Russians overthrow Czar Nicholas II due to high taxes, poor working conditions and lack of political expression

War between Russia and Japan over Korea and Manchuria (for natural resources); Japan won

Eastern European countries occupied by the USSR after WWII that become communist

During the 1500s and 1600s, advances made in science and math; challenged authority of the Church when heliocentric theory discovered.

Supported by Montesquieu and included in the US Constitution; divides government into three branches so no one person or group has all the power

Indian troops rebelled against British rulers due to the use of pig and cow grease on cartridges, which went against their Hindu and Muslim beliefs; Indians lost

Theory Enlightenment idea that government was created as an agreement between social groups as a way of structuring themselves in a mutually beneficial way

Economic system in which basic industries are owned by all of the people and all of the people share in the profits according to need; created by Karl Marx

For military reasons, US and USSR wanted to have best space technology; USSR first satellite and man in space; US first man on moon; caused US to focus on math and science in schools

US assisted Cuba in fight for independence from Spain; began when US said Spanish mine blew up the USS Maine; US wanted to protect economic interests in Cuba

Created by James Watt; used coal to heat water to boiling to run engines; improved transportation and allowed factories to be built anywhere because they did not need to be water-powered

Beginning of the French Revolution

Man Made canal connecting Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea; allowed access to Middle East oil and aided trade so that Europeans could reach Asia without going around Africa

When the Estates General would not agree to one-man-one vote, giving the 3rd Estate more power, the 3rd Estate left and vowed not to leave the tennis court until a new constitution was written for France

Created by Treaty of Versailles to maintain peace; failed due to no military or money and the US did not join

US Provided economic assistance (money) to Western Europe after WWII to rebuild so that they would be economically strong enough to resist communist take-over

The belief that a country builds up its power by building up its supply of gold and silver. If a country could not obtain gold and silver in colonies, it used the natural resources to create goods to trade for gold.

Part of Atlantic Slave Trade/Triangular Trade between Africa to the New World carrying slaves

Policy of building up a strong military force; increasing weapons and troops; cause of WWI

Stated that North and South America (land in the Western Hemisphere) were off limits to further European expansion/colonization

Example of appeasement; Great Britain and France agreed to give Hitler the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia if Hitler would agree not to invade any other land

eliminates tariffs/taxes on imports between the

United States, Canada and Mexico

pride in one's country; desire for self-determination based on culture; cause of many revolutions and independence movements

military alliance during Cold War between the US, Canada and Western European countries; would help each other if the Soviet Union invaded

US belief that all countries should have equal access to trade in China

War between China and Great Britain because Great Britain refused to quit trading in the addictive drug, opium, weakening China; Great Britain won

Japanese attack on US base in Hawaii due to US oil embargo placed on Japan; brought US into WWII; US defeated Japan

Restructuring of the Soviet government in the 1980s by Gorbachev; allowed some free enterprise and profit-making; created new Soviet Parliament and allowed for non-Communist parties

The DMZ-Demilitarized zone separating North and South Vietnam after the French ended war. War continued when US encouraged South Vietnam not to hold elections due to fear of communist win

Dividing line between Communist North Korea and Democratic South Korea

A form of government where there are no laws to restrict the ruler's power; unlimited government

Brutal system of segregation in effect in South Africa until the 1990s; White Afrikaners (former Boers) wanted to maintain power by discriminating against black Africans

Policy of Great Britain and France to give in to Hitler's demands prior to WWII to prevent war; did not work

Cold War competition between the US and the USSR to build up weapons, especially nuclear weapons; US President Reagan challenged the USSR and the USSR could not keep up; led to end of Soviet Union

A line of workstations in which workers do one specific job to create a product as the product is moved down the line

Alliance during World War II between Germany, Italy and Japan; Axis Powers lost when both Germany and Japan surrendered unconditionally

Wall built between East and West Berlin to prevent escape to West Germany; became a symbol of the Cold War and the iron curtain separating communism and democracy. Fell in 1989

US Stock Market Crash, October 29, 1929. Beginning of US Great Depression

Revolt by the working class following the Russian Revolution; Lenin came to power; Russia became the USSR/Soviet Union and communist; Russia pulled out of World War I

Economic system based on private ownership of resources and production that is driven by profit. People make the decisions.

Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire during WWI

No real fighting takes places but tensions are so high that war could break out at any moment; the US and the USSR had a Cold War after WWII

Economic and political system in which the government owns all of the factors of production and the people share equally in the profits

After Napoleon was defeated, European countries met to reorganize Europe and create new countries

US policy to prevent the spread of communism; included the formation of NATO and the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan as well as American involvement in Korean and Vietnam Wars

Government with one ruler, one legal party, few rights (if any) for the people; often uses terror to control the people

Treaty that ended WWI; Germany signed war guilt clause/had to pay reparations; empires split up; created League of Nations

Type of military combat during WWI where opposing armies are in trenches dug into the ground and neither side is able to advance

Atlantic Slave Trade between Africa, Americas and Europe. Americas sent natural resources to Europe who made and trade goods to Africa who traded slaves

Alliance prior to WWI; included Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary

Alliance prior to WWI; included France, Great Britain and Russia

US foreign policy based on the containment of communism by giving economic assistance (money) to countries so that they could resist communism

Hot extension of Cold War between Ho Chi Minh-led Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam; began when French tried to reclaim Indochina colony; French pulled out but US continued to fight

Military alliance during the Cold War between Communist countries in response to NATO; communist countries would aid each other in the event of invasion

Women's right to vote; many countries around the world gave women the right to vote after WWI due to their work to support the war effort

Telegram in which Germany encouraged Mexico to attack US to get back land in an effort to keep US out of World War I; partial reason US entered WWI

War in African between the British and the Zulu during which the British gained Zulu land

Which of the following statements regarding scientific advances best explains why global trade

developed in the sixteenth century?

Which of the following best defines capitalism?

How did the French lose power and influence in the Americas?

Which country was the first to industrialize because it had the factors of production needed for industrialization?