History Crossword
Across
- 5. proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.
- 7. a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe
- 8. a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease
- 10. company that facilitates the exchange of goods between people, by acting as an online marketplace
- 12. ship canal in northeastern Egypt
- 13. President of North Vietnam
- 15. an intergovernmental organization whose purpose is to maintain international peace and security
- 18. cash crop traded in Western Africa
- 19. a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved.
- 22. the idea that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use them aggresively
- 27. period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies
- 29. anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising in China
- 30. bat droppings used as fertilizer
- 32. Most severe pandemic of the 20th century.
- 33. a political theory advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
- 34. location where the United States dropped one of their atomic bombs
- 36. Brazilian leader
- 39. failed to industrialize and militarize as quickly as its european rivals, ending in its demise
- 43. a spiritual movement that arose among Western American Indians
- 45. a United States foreign policy position that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere
- 46. Group formed by Hindu nationalist leaders of India in the late 1800s to gain greater democracy and eventual self-rule.
- 48. North American Indian community settled in Oklahoma
- 49. policy aimed to forbid people of non-European ethnic origin to enter Australia
- 50. agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
Down
- 1. War between the northern and southern states of this Asian peninsula
- 2. long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns
- 3. political party with strong advocacy for the establishment of a separate Muslim-majority nation-state
- 4. anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence
- 6. deals with the global rules of trade between nations.
- 9. survival of the fittest, used as justification for imperialism
- 11. Hindi cinema
- 14. a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990
- 16. served as the second president of Egypt and helped overthrow the monarchy in 1952.
- 17. dictator of Germany during WWII
- 20. musical style originating in Jamaica, but has spread globally.
- 21. Method to prevent pregancies
- 23. secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy during WWI
- 24. a proxy war that pitted communist Northern part of the indochina peninsula against the Southern part
- 25. Kingdom situated in the South African Coast.
- 26. colonies in which immigrants from the colonizing country would come and live.
- 28. an organization formed for international cooperation after WWI
- 31. an international soccer tournament contested by senior men's national teams from various countries
- 35. leader of the Indonesian struggle for independence from the Dutch colonialists
- 37. the great increase in production of food grains due to the introduction of high-yielding varieties, to the use of pesticides, and to better management techniques.
- 38. new method of energy production.
- 40. Drug sold by the british to the chinese
- 41. Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China
- 42. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state
- 44. prime minister of England
- 47. first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia