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Regents Review
Question | Answer |
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Racial Segregation in South Africa | Apartheid |
Where do people live? | Near Water |
Supporters of Lenin | Bolsheviks |
stop the spread of communism | Containment |
What does NATO stand for? | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
Belief that one's culture is better than everyone else's | Ethnocentrism |
A peasant revolt led by the Chinese | Boxer Rebellion |
The continent that was divided up during the Berlin Conference | Africa |
person that brought the Ottoman Empire to its most prosperous point | Suleiman the Magnificent |
War that developed the use of trench warfare | World War One |
Key leader of Latin American Independence movements | Simon Bolivar |
Continent where the Andes Mountains can be found | South America |
A rigid social structure that divides the Hindu people in India | Caste System |
Capital city of Christianity; fell to the ottomans in 1453 | Constantinople |
Led the fight for Independence from the British Empire first in South Africa and then in India | Gandhi |
Led the Cuban Revolution; known dictator | Fidel Castro |
not choosing sides | neutrality |
the mixing of two or more cultures | cultural diffusion |
Rigid Social Structure developed by the Spanish in Latin America | Encomienda System |
spread quickly through Europe killing millions during the Dark Ages | Black Plague |
Family that controlled Japan for 300 years | Tokugawa |
Ruled by a king or queen | Monarchy |
When a monarch rules with absolute power it is called | Absolutism |
first responsible for Westernizing and Modernizing Russia | Peter the Great |
People used reason and free thinking to guide them rather the the catholic Church | Enlightenment |
The three estates were involved in this Revolution | French Revolution |
Led the Haitian people in a Revolution against France in Latin America | Toussanit L' Overture |
A key leader for Independence in Latin America...not Simon Bolivar | Jose de San Martin |
Latin American country colonized by Portugal | Brazil |
Gifted military leader, spread democracy in Europe, improved economy, banished to Island of Elba | Napoleon Bonaparte |
Having pride in one's country | Nationalism |
Taking over a country for Natural Resources | Imperialism |
Rebellion led by Indian soldiers in India against the British | Sepoy Mutiny |
Two primary religions of India | Islam and Hinduism |
Largest river in India; sacred to the Hindu religion | Ganges River |
Term that means clear cutting a forest | deforestation |
the build up of a military | militarism |
Industrial Revolution started here; had good harbors for trade and many colonies to get natural resources from | England |
Father of Communism | Karl Marx |
War between Britain and China; Britain won and forced China to open trade with them | Opium war |
An area of the world where one country wants to be the major power in the area is called this | Sphere of Influence |
Best Hockey Team Ever | Boston Bruins |
Period of modernization in Japan; late 1800's | Meiji Restoration |
Largest reason one country imperializes another | natural resources |
Caused World War one | MAIN |
created after the end of World War 1 to prevent future wars..it was a failure | League of Nations |
Racist Nationalist | Fascist |
Germany's poor economic situation allowed him to take control | Hitler |
the political party of Hitler | Nazi Party |
Hitler's master plan to create an Aryan race and exterminate the Jewish people | The Holocaust |
Leader of the Cultural Revolution in China | Mao Zedong |
Burning of books and art that was viewed as negative to communism | Cultural Revolution |
An attempt by Mao Zedong after World War 2 to modernize China, but failed | Great leap Forward |
modernized Russia during World War 2, took over businesses and farms, and killed millions of Russians over his period of rule | Stalin |
The four key nations of the Allied Powers during World War 2 | United States, Russia, France, Great Britain |
This empire collapsed after World War 1 | Ottoman Empire |
term used to describe lightning war | blitzkrieg |
Trails to punish war criminals of the Holocaust | Nuremberg Trials |
Karl Marx wrote this | Communism Manifesto |
If one nation falls to communism they all will | Domino Theory |
Violent nationalist who drove out the British in Kenya | Jomo Kenyatta |
Massive Genocide between the Hutu and Tutsi | Rwanda Genocide |
the growth of cities | urbanization |
Responsible for modernizing China | Xiaoping |
Water was replaced by this natural resource to power factories | Coal |
This time period led to an increase in food production across the globe in the mid 20th century | The Green Revolution |
Vladimir Lenin used this slogan to rally peasant support during the Russian Revolution | Peace, Land, and Bread |
The Warsaw Pact was formed as an alliance group for nations who practice what | Communism |
Which country did Napoleon invade that ultimately led to his downfall | Russia |
Partition means | to divide or split up |
Following The Holocaust which country was created for the Jewish people in 1947 | Israel |
A refusal to buy goods or services is a | Boycott |
Which country is the worlds largest democracy | India |
Which country is most populated | China |
A group of Islands like Japan is called an | archipelago |
Stalin and Mao Zedong both took government control of what causing a severe famine | Farms |
Cotton, Tobacco, and Opium are all examples of | Cash Crops |
Westerners are people from where | Europe/ United States |
Gandhi practiced peaceful protesting which is also known as | Civil disobedience /non-violent resistance |
people fled Ireland in the mid 1800's because of what event | The Irish Potato Famine |
Which two wars divided the North and South of each nation into communism and democracy | Korean and Vietnam Wars |
Chemical Warfare is most associated with which Conflict | World War One |
The spark that started World War One | Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
He suggested everyone had natural rights | John Locke |
The 3 natural rights are | Life, Liberty, and Property |
World War 2 ended how | Dropping The A Bomb on Japan |
Was the leader of South African Independence | Nelson Mandela |
A region in The Middle East that has been source of violence, revolutions, civil wars, and terrorism over the last 15 years | The Arab Spring |
He was responsible for German unification in the mid 19th century | Otto Von Bismarck |
Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin are all type of what leaders | Dictators/Totalitarian leaders |
A market economy goes with | Capitalism |
A command economy goes with | Communism |
Government is hands of in the economy | Lassize Faire |
exchange of goods and ideas across cultures | Cultural Diffusion |
Kemal Ataturk was responsible for modernizing and westernizing which country | Turkey |
Separated West Germany from East Germany at the height of The Cold War | Berlin Wall |
policy of neutrality of India during The Cold War | Nonalignment |