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2. Radical Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) and her _______________ (British women who lobbied and agitated for the right to vote in the early 20th century) worked to get women the vote in Britain.

9. During the 1840s, Karl Marx (1818–1883) produced the most influential of all critiques of the newly emerged industrial order. His work, _______________ appeared early in 1848.

3. The spread of European diseases, especially _______________, among the Native Americans aided the conquests of the Americas. 

4. Between 1943 and 1946, in Argentina, Juan Perón (1895–1974) forged social discontent & authoritarian political attitudes into a remarkable political movement known as ________________.

3. The ____________________ was the mechanization of the European economy that began in Britain in the 2nd half of the 18th century. It led to sustained economic growth despite downturns or depressions, improved standards of living, and introduced social changes.

7. In 1836, the Chinese government banned opium, leading to tensions with the _______________, who controlled the trade​. The Opium War (1839–1842) ended in August 1842 with the Treaty of Nanjing, 1st of the “unequal treaties.”​ The Treaty of Nanjing was followed by similar treaties with the U.S. and France​.

11. The US proposed the ____________________ in 1899 in China, which opposed foreign annexations in China​. A burst of activity after the Spanish-American War made the US an imperial and Pacific power​.

5. In 1858, India came under direct rule of the British Crown, a period of 90 years known as the British _______________.  

7. On June 28, 1914, a young Bosnian nationalist shot and killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to Austria-Hungary’s throne, and his wife​. Austria-Hungary then prepared for war against Serbia, with German encouragement and support​. Germany implemented the ____________________ and with their invasion of Belgium and the attack on France, WWI had begun​.

6. The entire Ottoman state was organized as one vast military institution under hereditary leadership of the sultan. The palace included the sultan, his ____________________ (wives, concubines, female relatives), his ministers, and servants.