AP World Jeopardy qtr 4 test 2 (ch. 25-29) Flashcards

158497158	Benito Mussolini	He was the creator of Fascism	0
158497159	Karl Marx	Revolutionary socialist who argued that all of history was the history of class struggle and that the working class should own the means of production:	1
158497160	Hitler	Born in Austria, he became a radical German nationalist during World War I. He led the National Socialist German Workers' Party in the 1920s and became dictator of Germany in 1933	2
158497161	Sigmund Freud	He was the founder of psychoanalysis, a method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders	3
158497162	Treaty of Versailles	The treaty imposed on Germany by Allied Powers after World War I. It demanded that Germany dismantle its military and give up lands to Poland. It was resented by many Germans	4
158497163	Sepoy Rebellion	revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs	5
158497164	Indian National Congress	A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class, and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas Gandhi, it appealed increasingly to the poor, and it organized mass protests demanding self-government and independence	6
158497165	Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk)	He was leader of the Young Turks and is considered the Father of Modern Turkey	7
158497166	Balfour Declaration	Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine	8
158497167	Faisal	Arab prince, leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921, and he reigned under British protection until 1933	9
158497168	Guomindang	Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925, the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek, who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement	10
158497169	Boxer Uprising	Revolt of a Chinese secret society against foreign missionaries and traders, resulted in great losses for the Chinese government	11
158497170	Meiji Restoration	This refers to the re-established reign of the Japanese Emperor, which was characterized by a new nationalist identity, economic advances, and political transformation	12
158497171	Yuan Shikai	Chinese general and first president of the Chinese Republic (1912-1916). He stood in the way of the democratic movement led by Sun Yat-sen	13
158497172	Sun Yat-Sen	Leader of the Nationalist movement in China following the collapse of the Qing	14
158497173	Shaka	This fierce leader of the Zulus in southern Africa fundamentally changed African political life	15
158497174	Afrikaners	These were the descendents of Dutch settlers who lived in South Africa	16
158497175	Usman dan Fodio	A Fulani Muslim cleric who led an Islamic reform movement in northern Nigeria	17
158497176	Henry Morton Stanley	He was Leopold II's agent in the Congo and was known for using force to subdue local populations and was famous for his line "Dr. Livingstone, I presume"	18
158497177	Suez Canal	Built in 1869 by Muhammad Ali, it connected the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea and lowered the costs of international trade	19
158497178	Manchurian Incident	a staged event that was engineered by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for invading the northern part of China known as Manchuria in 1931	20
158497179	Chiang Kai-Shek	Chinese military and political leader. Succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang in 1925; headed the Chinese government from 1928 to 1948; fought against the Chinese Communists and Japanese invaders. After 1949 he headed the Chinese Nationalist government in Taiwan	21
158497180	Spanish-American War	War between the United States and Spain in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. It ended with a treaty in which the United States took over the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico; Cuba won partial independence	22
158497181	Battle of Midway	U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in World War II	23
158497182	Battle of Omdurman	British victory over the Mahdi in the Sudan in 1898. General Kitchener led a mixed force of British and Egyptian troops armed with rapid-firing rifles and machine guns	24
158497183	mandate system	Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I, to be administered under League of Nations supervision	25
158497184	Matthew Perry	A navy commander who, on July 8, 1853, became the first foreigner to break through the barriers that had kept Japan isolated from the rest of the world for 250 years	26
158497185	Empress Dowager Cixi	She was the Qing empress who supported the Boxers in the Boxer Uprising	27
158497186	Max Plank	German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918, a series of scientific institutes throughout Germany are named after him	28
158497187	Nawab	A Muslim prince allied to British India; technically, a semi-autonomous deputy of the Mughal emperor	29