Historical Events and Concepts Summary
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Dive into significant events and concepts like NATO, Common Market, Imperialism, Industrial Revolution, and more. Learn about key figures and ideologies influencing world history.
Historical Events and Concepts Summary
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1. What was formed to respond to possible Soviet attacks? - NATO 2. What is the Common Market? • An economic union of European nations 3. What is it called when a nation grabs other countries for their resources? • Imperialism
4. What was the Industrial Revolution? • Period when people used machinery and new methods to increase productivity 5. What do you call the supply of workers? • Human resources 6. Who invented an efficient steam engine? • James Watt
7 What do you call the killing of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis? • Holocaust 8. Who was the philosopher on whose ideas communism was based? • Karl Marx 9. What is another name for World War I? • The Great War
10. Why did the Industrial Revolution start in Great Britain? • It had coal and iron, it had a large supply people, and it had wool and imported cotton 11. When were machines designed for war first mass-produced? • World War I 12. What groups were formed to bargain with factory owners for better working conditions and higher pay for workers? • Unions
13. What did the Industrial Revolution make consumer goods do? • Made them less expensive 14. What were the goals of the Marshall Plan? • To help rebuild Europe and stop the spread of communism 15. Who is the leader responsible for the Holocaust? • Adolf Hitler
16. What was the Truman Doctrine? • Support countries fighting communism 17. What is the currency of the European Union? • Euro 18. What was deterrence during the Cold War? • The policy that discouraged attack by threatening nuclear war
19. Who formed together to form the Benelux trade union? • Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxemburg 20. Why was the Berlin airlift done? • Free Germany from communist control 21. Which country was once split into communist and democratic parts but is now reunited? • Germany
22 Who are imperialists? • Countries that claim colonies in other lands 24. What did the Berlin Wall symbolize? • Split b/w Eastern and Western Europe
25. Where did the first successful challenge to communist rule take place? • Poland 26. Which Soviet leader loosened government control of the Soviet Union? • Mikhail Gorbachev 27. What was the conflict between democratic U.S. and Communist Soviet Union called? • Cold War