Across
- 4. The rigid, unequal divisions that split French society into distinct classes, serving as a primary cause of the French Revolution.
- 5. Part of the title of the famous 1789 French document stating that all citizens were born free and equal in rights.
- 6. The fascist dictator who successfully took control of Italy by promising social order, military strength, and renewed national pride.
- 7. The Russian czar whose main goals were to modernize his country using European ideas and centralize royal power.
- 10. The systematic wartime event where a targeted Christian minority group was deported, attacked, and killed in massive numbers.
- 11. Essential natural resources needed by growing industrial factories, including items like cotton, rubber, and oil.
- 12. The historical era heavily influenced by Enlightenment concepts that led people to aggressively question monarchy and inequality.
- 14. The revolutionary legislative body in France that stripped away noble feudal privileges and reduced royal power.
- 15. The European nation where industrialization originally began because it possessed the ideal combination of resources, markets, and economic conditions.
- 18. The class of powerful Russian nobles whose traditional authority was reduced as the monarchy centralized power.
- 20. The highly exposed and exceptionally dangerous territory situated directly between opposing wartime trench lines.
- 25. The early feminist writer who strongly argued that women should receive equal rights, specifically emphasizing education.
- 26. The geographic region of World War I where vast, deadlocked trench networks emerged because defensive weapons made it too difficult to advance.
- 27. The continent whose entire political map was radically redrawn when European imperial powers carved it up into controlled territories.
- 28. An economic incentive of imperialism where local colonial populations were utilized to heavily increase business profits.
Down
- 1. Biased or systematic messaging used heavily by authoritarian regimes to manipulate public fear and gain widespread support.
- 2. The massive historic shift during which human society rapidly transitioned from farming work over to factory work.
- 3. The French king whose reign officially ended when the monarchy was abolished and he was executed for treason.
- 8. A Christian minority population that lived inside Ottoman Empire territory during the outbreak of World War I.
- 9. The totalitarian leader who consolidated swift control over Germany by utilizing powerful speeches, aggressive nationalism, and public fear.
- 13. The designated historical era spanning the transitional decades between the conclusion of World War I and the outbreak of World War II.
- 16. The Enlightenment thinker who argued that citizens needed a government with strong authority to maintain peace, safety, and order.
- 17. The Enlightenment philosopher who firmly believed that a government should always work for the common good of the people.
- 19. The highly controversial section of the Treaty of Versailles that forced Germany to accept absolute blame for starting World War I.
- 21. The severe global economic crisis during which millions of citizens lost their jobs, money, and faith in democratic governments.
- 22. Mutual protection pacts that inadvertently dragged multiple European nations into a massive conflict following a single localized crisis.
- 23. Overseas locations highly valued by imperialist European nations as places where they could sell manufactured goods.
- 24. The French absolute monarch who tightly controlled taxation and commanded his military directly.