Across
- 2. A sudden takeover of a government by force.
- 4. Pride in one’s country and the belief it is superior.
- 5. Controlling or blocking ideas, books, or news.
- 6. Biased information used to influence public opinion.
- 8. A thinker during the Enlightenment who promoted reason and individual rights.
- 14. Someone blamed for problems they didn’t cause.
- 15. Enlightenment thinker who said people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
- 17. A peasant tied to the land under feudalism.
- 18. An economic system based on private ownership and free markets.
- 19. A system of government where the people have the power.
- 20. A major change in government or society, often through force.
- 21. The wealthy middle class who own businesses, according to Marx.
- 22. A system where a ruler holds total power, often claimed to be from God.
- 25. A device used to execute people by beheading, especially during the French Revolution.
- 26. Wrote the first scientific explanation of Gravity
- 27. A conflict of ideas and power between the U.S. and Soviet Union without direct fighting.
- 29. A government ruled by one person with total power.
- 30. A system where all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
Down
- 1. First European to publish the heliocentric theory
- 3. The working class, according to Marxist theory.
- 6. A conflict where powerful countries support different sides but don’t fight directly.
- 7. A system where land is exchanged for loyalty and service.
- 9. A period of new ideas about government, rights, and reason in the 1600s–1700s.
- 10. A period of fear in the U.S. about the spread of communism.
- 11. Communist leader of China after the revolution.
- 12. A French palace and the site of a treaty that ended World War I.
- 13. A prison in Paris stormed during the French Revolution.
- 16. The growth of factories and machine-made goods.
- 17. When workers stop working to demand better conditions.
- 23. A system where the government controls every part of public and private life.
- 24. Communist leader of North Vietnam.
- 28. An organization that fights for workers' rights.
