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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Prompted by labor unrest, personal liberties, and elected representatives, this political rfevolution occurred in 1917 when Czar Nicholas II was murdered and Vladimir Lenin sought control to implement his ideas of socialism | Russian Revolution |
| Began with a peasant revolt in France in 1789. sought to limit the powers of the Catholic church, to weaken the power of the nobility and the monarch, and strengthen the voice of the common man. | French Revolution |
| Political revolution that began with the Declaration of Independence. American colonists sought a balance of power between the government and the people to protect the rights of citizens in a democracy. | American Revolution |
| Series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule. | Crusades |
| Period of time after World War Two where US and USSR emerged as superpowers and faced off in an arms race that lasted nearly 50 years. | Cold War |
| 1914-1918 Between the Central Powers andthe Allied Powers, started after Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated ends with German surrender | World War One |
| Bloodless revolution, William and Mary agree to overthrow James II for Protestantism. Leads to a constitutional monarchy and the English Bill of Rights. | Glorious Revolution |
| 1939-1945 Germany invades Poland to start, ends with Japanese surrender after the US drops two atomic bombs. | World War Two |