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Regents Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Racial Segregation in South Africa | Apartheid |
| Kemal Ataturk did this in Turkey | Modernize and Westernize |
| 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 |
| This caused World War 2 | The Treaty of Versailles |
| 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 India | Gandhi |
| Led the Cuban Revolution; known dictator | Fidel Castro |
| not choosing sides | neutrality |
| The Two Alliances groups during the Cold War | Warsaw Pact and Nato |
| The only country that was able to resist imperialism in Africa | Ethiopia |
| 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 |
| The Iranian Revolution was bad for which group of people | Women |
| 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 |
| The World's most populated country | India |
| 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 |
| Five Year Plans were used by dictators in China and The Soviet Union to try and | Industrialize and Modernize their economies |
| 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 |
| Mao's communist rule of China was most similar to who | Stalin |
| 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 |
| The Salt March is an example of what | Civil Disobedience |
| People who are displaced from their homes are known as | Refugees |
| 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 |
| partition means | to split up or break into parts |
| A lack of resources | scarcity |
| The 3 Natural Rights | Life, Liberty, Property (Land) |
| He came up with the concept of Natural Rights | John Locke |
| Montesquieu introduced this idea during the Enlightenment | Checks and Balances/ Separation of Powers |
| Child Labor was a major issue during which Revolution | Industrial Revolution |
| The Korean War resulted in an armistice and a border was created...what is the name of the border | DMZ |
| World War resulted in a Stalemate due to this type of warfare | Trench |
| Events like the Soviet-Afghanistan War and the Fall of the Berlin Wall are associated with | The Collapse of The Soviet Union |
| OPEC deals with which major natural resources | Oil or Petroleum |
| NAFTA sets up trade agreements with which major North American Countries | Mexico, Canada, and The United States |
| Which country produces the most mass manufactured goods | China |
| The Largest rain forest in the world is | The Amazon Rain forest |
| Zionism connects with Israel and which Faith | Jewish |
| Currently there is a conflict occurring between Russia and which country | Ukraine |
| Which types of countries are most affected by overpopulation in negative ways | Developing Countries |
| The Treaty of Versailles forced which country to accept full blame for World War One | Germany |
| He was leader of The Soviet Union when it collapsed | Gorbachev |
| The First satellite launched into space | Sputnik |
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