World History B Unit 1 Keywords Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. A British businessman, mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
  2. 6. A German submarine used during World War 1 or World War 2.
  3. 7. Information that is not objective and is primarily used to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce and emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.
  4. 10. An anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising that took place in China between 1899 and 1901.
  5. 12. Documents, images, or artifacts that provide firsthand testimony or directs evidence concerning a historical topic.
  6. 14. A king,queen, emperor, etc. who controlled all aspects of society with no limitations on their authority.
  7. 15. An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.
  8. 20. Fought between the United States and Spain in 1898 after the explosion of the USS Maine.
  9. 21. The main theatre of war during the First World War.
  10. 23. The treaty that ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers of the First World War.
  11. 25. Fourteen European countries met in 1884-85 to lay down the rules for the division of Africa.
  12. 27. The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. It was used to justify imperialism and racism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  13. 28. An economic theory that advocates putting the means of production in the hands of the people collectively and states that the government has a responsibility to redistribute wealth to make society more fair and just. The goal is not to eliminate private property entirely but to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor.
  14. 29. A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico.
Down
  1. 2. The seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country.
  2. 3. A philosophical movement that swept through Europe in the 18th century. It was based on reason, and advocated ideas such as liberty, tolerance, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.
  3. 4. Another name for World War 1.
  4. 5. An economic theory that advocates private ownership of the means of production, free competition, and individual economic freedom.
  5. 6. The rural to urban shift during the Industrial Revolution.
  6. 8. An English author born in India. He wrote The Jungle Book.
  7. 9. A source created after the event by someone who did not participate in/was not present for the historical event. Examples include textbooks, journal articles, and research reports.
  8. 11. Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests.
  9. 13. A pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 that dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.
  10. 16. An intergovernmental organization formed as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. Its principle mission was to maintain world peace.
  11. 17. A point of view; a particular attitude or way of regarding something.
  12. 18. A violent uprising against British rule in India in 1857.
  13. 19. The greatly increased output of machine-made goods that began in England in the middle 1700s.
  14. 22. A faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split away from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
  15. 24. A war which is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives persued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.
  16. 26. A complex culture with five characteristics: advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, and advanced technology.