1. Period 5 and 6 Review
1750-Present

2. What peace keeping organization was create at conclusion of the Second World War?
United Nations (UN)

3. What form of government was used by the Weimar Republic?
Democratic

4. The second stage of the system of Triangular Trade?
Middle Passage

5. As a result of the Opium Wars. Great Britain gained what territory?
Hong Kong

6. Along with nationalism, alliances, and imperialism what was the other cause of WWI?
Militarism

7. What was the goal in regards to communism take by western democratic nations during the Cold War ?
Containment

8. This was an economic plan to help rebuild Europe after WWII?
Marshall Plan

9. James Watt is best known for the invention of the…?
Steam engine

10. In 1884 European powers divided Africa amongst themselves
In 1884 European powers divided Africa amongst themselves. This was done at the…?
Berlin Conference

11. The term for the economic restructuring of the Soviet state?
Perestroika

12. Maximillian Robespierre was a French politician and a leader of this horrific period of the French Revolution?
Reign of Terror

13. In what region of the New World saw the number of slaves increase naturally rather than through importation?
North America

14. Germany’s annexation of Austria, the Rhineland, and the Sudetenland are all examples of this policy taken by European powers in the 1930s?
Appeasement

15. Who was a strong proponent of tablua rasa?
John Locke

16. Who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914?
Gravilo Princip

17. This placed a limitation on the nuclear arsanals of both the Soviet Union and United States?
SALT (strategic arms limitation talks/ treaties)

18. The Entente powers?
Great Britain, France, and Russia

19. What was the official reason given for the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Japan during WWII?
They cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were industrial cities

20. Who was the individual that opened Japan to western trade in 1853-54?
Commodore Matthew Perry (US)

21. This was a revolt of Chinese people against foreign influence in 1900.
Boxer Rebellion

22. To help support developing countries by providing loans is the main mission of this international organization?
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)

23. List one reason why African slaves were needed in the New World?
Natives were dying out
Labor intensive crops

24. The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 placed the blame for the war on which central power?
Germany

25. The Long March solidified who’s control of the Chinese communist party?
Mao Zedong

26. Due to an abundance of natural resources, over seas colonies, and a period of relative peace the Industrial Revolution began in…?
Great Britain

27. A company that is privately held but receives government support is called? (Hint: the British East India Company)
Joint-Stock Company

28. Which social classes was abolished as a result of the Meiji Restoration and the increased industrialization of Japan in the late 1800s?
Samurai

29. What was the significance of the Spanish American War?
The US become an imperial power

30. The belief that it was the job of the Western world to civilize the uncivilized nations of the world is known as?
“The white mans burden”

31. Leader of the Russian Bolsheviks?
Vladimir Lenin

32. Leader of the Chinese Nationalist.
Chiang Kai-Shek

33. The idea that if one nation falls to communism then the surrounding will too.
Domino Theory

34. What was the key invention of the Industrial Revolution?
Steam Engine

35. Name the central powers in WWI?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

36. The leader of the South American Revolutions for independence?
Simon Bolivar

37. What was the military alliance created by the western democracies during the Cold War?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

38. What three crops were the most labor intensive in the New World and required a large number of slaves to cultivate?
Sugar, Cotton, and Tobacco

39. What is the name of the trade network that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas via the Atlantic Ocean?
Triangular trade (Atlantic System)

40. Toussaint L’Overture led a successful slave revolt on the French colony of Saint Domingue. The revolt is known as?
The Haitian Revolution

41. What was the military alliance created by Soviet Union and Eastern European communist states during the Cold War?
Warsaw Pact

42. This was an economic plan taken by the United States during the cold war to help support governments and militaries that were under the threat of falling to communism?
Truman Doctrine

43. In response to the creation of Israel, Palestinians created this organization?
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)

44. Who rose to power in fascist Italy in the 1920s and 30s?
Benito Mussolini

45. What new communist state was created in 1923?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

46. To oversee and manage trade is the purpose of what international organization?
The World Trade Organization (WTO)

47. What two ethnic group fought each other during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994?
Hutu and the Tutsi

48. In 1857 Indian native troops rebelled against the British army officers and the East India Company in what was known as the?
Sepoy Rebellion

49. This invention lead to the boom of the textile industry in the US and over seas?
Cotton gin

50. The Japanese feudal system came to an end with what event?
The Meiji Restoration

51. What was the immediate cause of WWI?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

52. The belief that Europeans were superior to others, as demonstrated in Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden”, comes from this 19th century idea?
Social Darwinism