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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Worldwide economic collapse starting in 1929 that caused unemployment and instability. | Great Depression |
| Fascist dictator of Italy and ally of Hitler. | Benito Mussolini |
| Authoritarian system focused on nationalism, strong leadership, and military power. | Facism |
| Leader of Nazi Germany who started WWII and the Holocaust. | Hitler |
| German form of fascism based on racism, anti-Semitism, and dictatorship. | Nazsim |
| Communist party dictator of the Soviet Union who led it during WWII. | Joseph Stalin |
| Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, including Russia, Baltic States, Ukraine, etc | USSR |
| System where the workers control the property and aim for equality of condition. | Communism |
| The idea that women should have rights because of their roles as mothers and moral guides of society. Hidalgo–Morelos rebellion – An early Mexican independence movement led by Catholic priests Miguel Hidalgo and José María Morelos. | Maternal feminism |
| Independence movements across Latin America that ended Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule in the early 1800s. | Latin American revolutions |
| A leader of the women’s rights movement who fought for women’s suffrage and legal equality. | Elizabeth cady Stanton |
| A successful slave revolt (1791–1804) that led to Haiti becoming the first independent Black republic. | Haitian revolution |
| The harsh winter camp where the Continental Army trained and survived during the American Revolution | Valley forge |
| A book by Mary Wollstonecraft arguing that women deserve equal education and rights | Vindication of the right of women |
| A French general who rose to power after the French Revolution and became emperor of France | Napoleon |
| The main author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States. | Thomas Jefferson |
| The belief that people with a shared culture, language, or history should form an independent nation. | |
| A radical leader of the French Revolution who played a key role during the Reign of Terror. | Maximillian robersphere |
| A colonial rebellion (1775–1783) in which Britain’s North American colonies fought for independence from British rule. | American revolution |
| An Indigenous leader who led a major revolt against Spanish colonial rule in Peru in the 1780s. | Tupac amaru |
| A colonial protest group that opposed British taxes and helped organize resistance before the American Revolution. | Sons of liberty |
| A French revolutionary document that declared liberty, equality, and natural rights as the foundation of government. | Declaration of the rights of man and citizen |
| A large slave rebellion in Jamaica (1831) that helped push Britain toward ending slavery. | Great Jamaican revolt |
| The army created by the American colonies to fight British forces during the American Revolution | Continental army |
| A series of revolutions beginning in 1789 that overthrew the monarchy and reshaped France around republican and revolutionary ideals. | French revolutions |
| – A reform movement that sought to end slavery and the slave trade. | Abolitionist movement |
| Commander of the Continental Army and the first president of the United States. | George Washington |
| An early Mexican independence movement led by Catholic priests Miguel Hidalgo and José María Morelos. | Hidalgo-Morelos rebellion |
| British scientist who traced a cholera outbreak in London to contaminated water, advancing modern public health. | John snow |
| A novel by Upton Sinclair exposing dangerous working conditions and food contamination in meatpacking plants. | The jungle |
| New York City urban reformer who improved sewage and sanitation systems, reducing disease in industrial cities. | George warring |
| Journalist who exposed urban poverty and poor living conditions through photography and writing. | Jacob riis |
| Inventor who developed alternating current (AC) electricity, allowing efficient long-distance power transmission | Nikola Tesla |
| Industrialist who promoted AC electricity and competed with Edison to electrify cities. | George Westinghouse |
| Rockefeller’s company that controlled most U.S. oil refining through vertical and horizontal integration. | Standard oil |
| Industrialist who dominated the oil industry through monopolistic practices. | John Rockefeller |
| method for producing steel quickly and cheaply by removing impurities from molten iron. | Bessemer process |
| Steel magnate who used new technology to mass-produce steel and became one of the richest industrialists of the era. | Andrew Carnegie |
| Inventor who helped commercialize electricity and develop practical electrical systems for industry and cities. | Thomas Edison |
| Basic economic concerns such as wages, hours, and workplace safety. | Bread and butter issues |
| A collective work stoppage by workers to pressure employers for better conditions or pay. | Union strike |
| English agricultural innovator who improved farming efficiency by inventing the seed drill, helping increase food production and population growth. | Jethro Tull |
| British inventor and industrialist who helped pioneer the factory system through mechanized textile production | Richard Arkwright |
| machine that used water power to spin cotton thread, enabling large-scale textile manufacturing in factories. | Water frame |
| An early industrial city in England that became a major center of textile production, symbolizing rapid urbanization and factory labor. | Manchester |
| Organized efforts by workers to improve wages, hours, safety, and working conditions. | Labor movement |
| A system proposed by Marx advocating a classless society in which workers collectively own the means of production. | Communism |
| An economic system based on private ownership, free markets, and profit-driven production. | Capitalism |
| Individuals who invest money (capital) in businesses to generate profit under a capitalist system. | Capitalists |
| Reformers, especially in the United States, who sought to address industrial problems through regulation, labor laws, and social reform. | Progressives |
| An economic system advocating collective or government ownership of industry to reduce inequality and protect workers. | Socialism |
| A political party formed to represent working-class interests, labor unions, and social reform in Britain. | British labor party |
| A toll road financed by private investors that improved transportation and trade during the early Industrial Revolution. | Turnpike |
| A machine that converts steam power into mechanical energy, revolutionizing industry, mining, and transportati | Steam engine |
| Scottish engineer who improved the steam engine, making it more efficient and practical for widespread industrial use. | James watt |
| British engineer who developed the steam locomotive, helping expand railroads and national markets. | George Stephenson |
| A rail engine powered by steam that dramatically reduced transportation time and costs for goods and people | Steam locomotive |
| German philosopher who argued that capitalism exploited workers and predicted class struggle would lead to socialism and communism. Author of the Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx |
| A growing social group of factory owners, managers, professionals, and merchants who benefited from industrial capitalism. | Middle class |
| Industrial laborers who worked in factories and mines for wages, often under dangerous and exploitative conditions. | Working class |
| Skilled textile workers who destroyed machinery to protest job loss and economic displacement caused by industrialization. | Luddities |
| The peace treaty that ended WWI and punished Germany with reparations, territorial losses, and military limits | Treaty of Versailles |
| Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution who took Russia out of WWI in 1918 | Vladimir Lenin |
| International organization developed after WWI that would resolve conflicts and help avoid future wars | League of Nations |
| Wilson’s plan for peace called for self-determination, open diplomacy, and a League of Nations. | Fourteen points |
| A region in southeastern Europe with many ethnic groups; called the “Powder Keg of Europe.” | The balkans |
| Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne whose assassination in 1914 sparked WWI | Archduke franz Ferdinand |
| Bosnian Serb nationalist who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. | Gavrillo princip |
| Emperor of Germany during WWI who strongly supported militarism and war | Kaiser wilhelm |
| Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria—the alliance fighting against the Allies. | Central powers |
| The nations opposing the Central Powers, including Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Japan, and later the United States. | Allied powers |
| U.S. president during WWI who proposed the Fourteen Points and supported the League of Nations. | Woodrow Wilson |
| Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI. | John “black jack” perishing |
| The WWI United States fighting force sent to Europe led by General Pershing | American expeditionary force |
| One of the bloodiest WWI battles, with over one million casualties. (20,000 British casualties in one day) | Battle of the Somme |
| Large, powerful battleships that dominated naval warfare in the early 1900s | Dreadnought battleships |
| A form of fighting where soldiers battled from deep defensive trenches. | Trench warfare |
| Dangerous open ground between enemy trenches filled with barbed wire, shell craters, and mud. | No mans land |
| U.S. president during the Great Depression and most of WWII. | Franklin Roosevelt |
| – U.S. programs to fight the Great Depression like the WPA, CCC, and TVA | New deal |
| Japanese military leader and prime minister during WWII | Hideki Tojo |
| – Japan’s expansionist empire in Asia and the Pacific | Japanese empire of the rising sun |
| Inspiring symbol of women working in factories during WWII | Rosie the retriever |
| U.S. soldier in WWII, GI means “General Issue | American GI |
| “Lightning War” - Fast, surprise attacks using tanks, planes, artillery, and troops | Blitzgreig warfare |
| Germany, Italy, and Japan | Axis powers |
| Countries fighting against Axis (U.S., Britain, USSR). | Allies |
| Japanese cities hit by U.S. atomic bombs in 1945. | Hiroshima & Nagasaki |
| Largest Nazi death camp located in Poland | Auschwitz |
| British prime minister who led resistance against Nazi Germany | Winston Churchill |
| Allied general who led the D-Day invasion. | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Civilian maritime vessel evacuation of Allied troops from France in 1940 that saved the British war effort | Dunkirk |
| Nazi genocide of 6 million Jews that included mobile killing squads, concentration camps, gas chambers, and the Final Solution | Holocaust |
| 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy, France by the Allies to defeat Germany. | D day invasion |
| Major Soviet victory turning the war against Germany | Stalingrad |
| Japanese attack (1941) on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii that brought the U.S. into WWII. | Pearl Harbor |
| Air battle where Britain stopped a German invasion of Britain | Battle of Britain |
| Nationalism |