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| 6371196301 | Berlin West Africa Conference | A meeting of European imperialist powers in 1884-85 to peacefully partition (divide) Africa | 0 | |
| 6371203575 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur in South Africa who manipulated (used) the political situation to gain entry to the diamonds and gold discovered in the Boer republics | 1 | |
| 6371211057 | Russo-Japanese War | Conflict in 1904-05 that showed the world that Japan was on the rise as an industrial power | 2 | |
| 6371214731 | Panama Canal | It altered the speed of global trade and America's naval power after the completion of this project by the U.S. in Central America | 3 | |
| 6371220243 | Leopold II | King of Belgium who set up a colony in the Congo to exploit workers and natural resources, specifically rubber | 4 | |
| 6371223011 | Meiji Restoration | Movement that ended the power of the Shogunate in Japan with the return of power to the emperor and the beginning of a reform period | 5 | |
| 6371228028 | Duma | Russian national assembly that was created as one of the reforms after the Revolution of 1905 | 6 | |
| 6371230339 | Matthew Perry | American naval officer who opened up Japan to trade in 1853 with his "black ships" | 7 | |
| 6371232763 | Luddites | Early nineteenth-century artisans who were opposed to new machinery and industrialization | 8 | |
| 6371235598 | Manifest Destiny | he belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand across the North American continent, used to justify U.S. annexations | 9 | |
| 6371241605 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | he leader of a slave rebellion on the French island of St. Domingue in 1791 that led to the creation of the independent republic of Haiti in 1804 | 10 | |
| 6371249461 | Mexican-American War | U.S. instigated war that ended in the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, which gave the United States possession of one-half of Mexico's territory | 11 | |
| 6371255656 | Reign of Terror | An attempt to eliminate all suspected enemies of the French Revolution, best known for the use of the guillotine | 12 | |
| 6371260263 | Zionism | A political movement that holds that the Jewish people constitute a nation and have the right to their own national homeland | 13 | |
| 6371266027 | Henry Ford | Improved manufacturing techniques when he introduced the assembly line to automobile production | 14 |
