385561342 | The Last Emperor of China | Pu Yi, the son of the Emperor's brother -Dowager chose him to succeed -His regent(his father) made him abdicate at age 5 -Remained a figurehead, the Forbidden City was plundered by advisers and servants | 0 | |
385561343 | Why does China disolve into chaos? | -Civil wars and power struggles -2 governments(One set up by Sun Yet-Sen, one by the Military) | 1 | |
385561344 | 3 Principals of the Miliary Government | -Nationalism -Democracy -Welfare | 2 | |
385561345 | Where did the Communism movement begin? | Northern China | 3 | |
385561346 | Who aid the growth of Communism in China? | Russia | 4 | |
385561347 | May 4th Movement | An anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919, protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles | 5 | |
385561348 | The Long March | Mao Zedong led Communists to far Western China | 6 | |
385561349 | Who claimed The Long March as a victory? | Chian Kai-Shek and the Nationalists | 7 | |
385561350 | Who invaded China? | Japan | 8 | |
385561351 | When the Japanese occupied Manchurio in 1931, what happened? | -Japanese make Pu Yi the puppet leader -China unites against Japan | 9 | |
385561352 | What region of China does Japan brutalize? | Nanjing | 10 | |
385561353 | What happens to the government during the war? | -Nationalist government is as corrupt as the old empire -Communists gain followers as the war drags on | 11 | |
385561354 | What do the Communists promsie the people? | -land reform -equality -End of corruption | 12 | |
385561355 | Communists win when? | October 1st, 1941. Mao proclaims Peoples Republic od China. | 13 | |
385561356 | USSR stands for? | Union of Soviet Socialists Republics | 14 | |
385561357 | What do Lenin and the NEP allow? | -Mix of capitalism and communism -Lets farmers sell their excess | 15 | |
385561358 | Who took over after Lenin died? | Stalin, who brought in the 5 years plans | 16 | |
385561359 | Components of 5-year Plan | -Quotas for production(agriculture and industry) -Governement direct; people lie to make quotas | 17 | |
385561360 | Farming in the Soviet Union | -Collective--operated by local farm groups -State owned and run by state -But small private farms were more efficient -Farmers are like serfs with the state as their master | 18 | |
385561361 | Stalin's Industrial priority | -Stalin sells surplus food to Eurpoe and uses the money for industry -Farmer technology backwards -Stalin focused on the military | 19 | |
385561362 | Industry advanced while what lagged behind? | -consumer products -food | 20 | |
385561363 | What benefits were there? | -Healthcare -Education -Social Services | 21 | |
385561364 | Causes of the Cold War | -West blatantly blocks spread of communism -West excludes the Soviets from secrets(A-Bomb) -Soviets created buffer zone in Eastern Europe -Soviets did not allow free elections in Eastern Europe when they said they would | 22 | |
385561365 | What do both sides want to spread? | Their ideas and systems | 23 | |
385561366 | Truman Doctrine | -Give Military aid to nations fighting communism -Greece and Turkey were first | 24 | |
385561367 | Marshall Plan | -Attempt to stop communism by rebuilding economies -Mostly Western Europe | 25 | |
385561368 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | 26 | |
385561369 | Warsaw Pact | Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance (1955-1991), or more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War | 27 | |
385561370 | Arms Race | -1949--Soviets have the A-bomb -1949--Mao takes China | 28 | |
385561371 | Berlin Airlift | 1948--Show commitment of the west. Airlifted food to the surrounded Western Berlin which was democratic | 29 | |
385561372 | Winston Churchill comes up with what term? | The Iron Curtain | 30 | |
385561373 | Korean War--Who attacked who? | North attacked South in 1950 | 31 | |
385561374 | Who does the U.S. help? | The U.S. help South Korea, when they entered they drove the North back | 32 | |
385561375 | Who enters to help the North and why? | Chins entered to help their fellow Communists in North Korea. | 33 | |
385561376 | How does the war end? | It doesn't exactly end. Stalemate was reached. Divided at the 38 parallel. | 34 | |
385561377 | Mao's China | -Relied on power of peasants -Used the party to control all thought in China "Mao Zedong Thought" -Fight against Westernism Re-distributes land to peasants (collectivization) | 35 | |
385561378 | Key Programs | -100 Flowers: Opens to ideas, then takes it back -Great Leap Forward: attempt to boost industry and agriculture (relied on peasants) -Cultural revolution | 36 | |
385561379 | Further tension in Europe | -Hungarian Uprising 1956; Crushed by Soviets -Sputnik--1st Satellite(Russian); Space Race -Berlin Wall: To keep Communists from escaping to West Berlin -Prague Spring 1968: Democratic uprising; Crushed by Soviets | 37 | |
385561380 | Cuba | -Castro overthrew Batista -Castro becomes pals with the Soviets | 38 | |
385561381 | Bay of Pigs | U.S. trains Cuban rebels. Totally backfires. | 39 | |
385561382 | Cuban Missil Crisis | -Soviets put missils in Cuba -U.S. makes them back down | 40 | |
385561383 | Vietnam | -French Indochina; Communists led by Ho Chi Mihn; Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia | 41 | |
385561384 | Ho Chi Mihn | Leader of the Communists in Vietnam | 42 | |
385561385 | Which part of Vietnam was communist? | North Vietnam was communist and South Vietnam was democratic | 43 | |
385561386 | U.S. send troops to help South Vietnam | -Viet Cong(South Vietnam Communist Rebels) -Vietnam is a jungle -Guerrilla Warfar teactics used -U.S. doesn't ever invade North Vietnam due to their fear of China and the USSR -U.S. left and North Vietnam took over, Vietnam is still a mild Communist country | 44 | |
386461472 | What is Zionism? | -Jewish desire to re-create Israel | 45 | |
386461473 | Who opposes Zionism? | Palestininas | 46 | |
386461474 | What lead to the UN support of Zionism? | World War 2 | 47 | |
386461475 | UN Partition Plan | -Tried to divide by population and shared resources -Arabs rejected the plan and declared war -Israel wins with U.S. and foreign aid and weapons | 48 | |
386461476 | When was the 6-Day War and what happened? | Takes place in 1967. Israel wins and takes more land. Created 400 thousand Palestinian refugees -Israelis occupy all Pal. land | 49 | |
386461477 | When was the Yom Kippur War. What happened and what were the effects? | -1973 -Arabs attacked, Jews recovered and win -Sadat(President of Egypt) can now make peace -Camp David Accords -Egypt gets land and peace to develop economy -Sadat assassinated by Muslim extremests | 50 | |
386461478 | Camp David Accords | A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt where Egypt agreed to recognize the nation state of Israel | 51 | |
386461479 | Communism in Arganistan | -Soviets invaded in 1979 to support the Communist government -Muslim rebels (mujahadeen) -Soviets struggle; U.S. helps rebels; Soviet power and presige drops | 52 | |
386461480 | Detante | Rexlation of tension between the US and the USSR -Nixon's SALT were a big part, end of Mutual Assumed Distruction--Stratigic Arms Limitation Treaty -Spurred by Nixon's visit to China, he was also invited to Russia | 53 | |
386461481 | Gorbachez | a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. He was the only general secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born during the Communist rule. | 54 | |
387805710 | Problems the Ottoman Empire was facing | -Controlling diverse population -Dwindleing revenues from trade -Increased taxes, esspecially on non-muslims (balkan peninsula) -Poor rulers and corruption (Janissaries-young enslaved soldiers) -Western ideas -Middle class merchants want more power -Clerical disdain of Western ideas | 55 | |
387805711 | Who made up most the middle class in the Ottoman Empire? | Christians and Jews | 56 | |
387805712 | Who was known as "The Sick Man of Europe"? Who said that? | The Ottoman Empire was called this by the Russian Czar | 57 | |
387805713 | Tanzimat Reforms | Series of reforms in the Ottoman Empire between 1839 and 1876; established Western-style universities, state postal system, railways, extensive legal reforms; resulted in creation of new constitution in 1876 | 58 | |
387805714 | Did the Ottoman Empire owe a large debt to Europe? | Yes they did | 59 | |
387805715 | Fragmentation of the Ottoman Empire | -Balkan(Christian minority) break away first -Lose North Africa and Egypt | 60 | |
387805716 | Who inspired Egyptian nationalism? | Albanian Muhammad Ali | 61 | |
387805717 | 3 Reasons why Russia developed differently from the most of Europe | -Adopted Byzantine Orthodox form of Christianity -Scorned Western ideas -Due to Mongol occupation they missed the Renaissance and the Reformation | 62 | |
387805718 | Window to the West | Peter the Great (1682-1725) accelerated the "borrowing" process from Europe. Tried to become more educated and westernized | 63 | |
387805719 | Catherine the Great | Was responsible in the Europeanization of the Russian Court. Was an Enlightened thinker | 64 | |
387805720 | Decembrist Revolt | Uprising in Russia in 1825, mainly soldiers soon suppressed-first manifestation of the modern revolutionary movement inspired by ideology. Wanted western ideas and to abolish serfdom and autocracy | 65 | |
387805721 | Slavophils | anti westernization -didn't believe in universal humanity -tradition -each society is fundamentally different from anotehr and each has its own national spirit | 66 | |
387805722 | Crimean War | (1853-1856) Russian war against Ottomans for control of the Black Sea; intervention by Britain and France cause Russia to lose; Russians realize need to industiralize. | 67 | |
387805723 | Emancipation Decree | Decree by Alexander 11 that freed the serfs and divided the land between them and the nobles | 68 | |
387805724 | Socialist Revolutionary Party | organized in 1901, represented the peasant disaffection | 69 | |
387805725 | Vladivostok | Russia's largest port city on the pacific ocean, on the head of the Golden Horn Bay, close to the border with China and North Korea. | 70 | |
387805726 | Tashkent | capital of Uzbekistan, primary city, largest city in central Asia, european people, gateway | 71 | |
387805727 | Battles of Port Arthur and Tsushima Straits | 2 battles of Far-East conquests. Between Russia and Japan | 72 | |
387805728 | Treaty of Portsmouth | (1905) ended the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). It was signed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after negotiations brokered by Theodore Roosevelt (for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize). Japan had dominated the war and received an indemnity, the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria, and half of Sakhalin Island, but the treaty was widely condemned in Japan because the public had expected more. | 73 | |
387805729 | Blood Sunday | January 22, 1905. A day were people approached the Czar's palace and troops from across the square shot and left hundreds dead or wounded lying in the snow. This day-killed people's faith and trust in Czar. | 74 | |
387805730 | October Manifesto | (1905), issued by Nich. II, attempted to quiet strikes, local revolts, promised freedom of speech and assembly, called the Duma into session | 75 | |
387805731 | Russian Expansion | -Conquered Siberia and C.Asia -Blocked by China, Began to look towards E. Europe and the Middle East | 76 | |
387805732 | Russian Setbacks | -Napoleon showed that Russia was still technologically backwards -Crimean War | 77 | |
387805733 | Russian Industrial Revolution | After Crimean War, end of serfdom and beginning of revolution -Government created (high taxes and foreign investments) -Workers exploited | 78 | |
387805734 | Russo-Japanese War | A conflict that grew out of the rival imperialist ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. Russia loses, which leads to Bloody Sunday | 79 | |
387805735 | Obstacles to Indian national spirit | -More loyalty to family, caste system and the village | 80 | |
387805736 | Indian Tax System | A tax system based on the village | 81 | |
387805737 | Panchayat | a village council in India; govern themselves | 82 | |
387805738 | Maratha Confederacy | Organized by the Hindus | 83 | |
387805739 | Battle of Plassey | the victory in 1757 by the British under Clive over Siraj-ud-daula that established British supremacy over Bengal | 84 | |
387805740 | Diwani | Right to collect land revenue, gained by East Indian Company | 85 | |
387805741 | Sepoy Mutiny | discontent with British administration in India led to numerous mutinies in 1857 and 1858 | 86 | |
387805742 | Indian Renaissance | Britain's intellectual impact stimulated an upsurge and a creativity in Indian though | 87 | |
387805743 | Ram Mahan Roy | "Father of Modern India" Compromised between western secularism and Hindu beliefs | 88 | |
387805744 | Bal Gangadhar Tilak | 1856-1920; Indian nationalist who demanded immediate independence from Britain, mobilizing Hindu religious symbolism to develop a mass following and arguing that violence was an acceptable tactic for anticolonial partisans. "Father of Indian Unrest" | 89 | |
387805745 | Mughals | -Leader Akbar the Great -Created a new syncretic religion -Unified India | 90 | |
387805746 | Traditional India | -Village and family more important than nation -self-sufficient villages -loyal to local princes -taxes piad by village | 91 | |
387805747 | British Conquest in India | -Started in the early 1700's -Took advantage of the weak Mughal government -British East India Company ruled and exploited India | 92 | |
387805748 | Africa Pre 19th century | -Slave trade decimated Africa politically and economically -Europeans had a few outposts -Islam dominates North, West and Swahili Coast -Christianity in South Africa, Ethiopia and Egypt | 93 | |
387805749 | Abolition of Slave trade | Enlightenment thought and Industrial Revolution -British lead the way | 94 | |
387805750 | Why the push to colonize Africa? | -Raw materials and markets -Nationalism--competition for most colonies -Germany and Italy were late to colonize -Naval ports -divert attention -excess population valve -Social darwinism and "the white man's burden" | 95 | |
387805751 | Congress of Berlin | The meeting which established the principle that European ocupation of African territtory had to be based on effective occupation that was recognized by other states and that no single nation could control Africa | 96 | |
387805752 | Signs of Westernization in Africa | -Railroads, ports, roads -Education and medicine -More Christian influence -Africans feel as if they are losing their culture | 97 |
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