Chapter 21 & 22 Vocab Flashcards
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153081843 | the Macartney and Amherst missions | Chinese to open northern port cities to British traders allow British ships to be repaired on Chinese territory | 0 | |
153081844 | Kang Youwei, Guangxu and One Hundred Days of Reform | Chinese scholar and nationalist who argued in favor of constitutional monarchy. Sentenced to death by the Dowager Empress, he fled to Japan. | 1 | |
153081845 | Revolutionary Alliance | Yat-Sen's organization of radical groups across China | 2 | |
153081846 | "oil for the lamps of China" | ... | 3 | |
153081847 | Commodore Matthew C. Perry | 1. Forced Japan to trade with US by sending four American warships 2. Treaty signed a treaty opening ports to American trade. | 4 | |
153081848 | "Sat- Cho" alliance | 1868-rival southern clans • Rryoma persuaded the leader of the Satsuma (Siago) to join the Choshu in an alliance against the Tokugawa | 5 | |
153081849 | Meiji Restoration | The political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, and imperialism. | 6 | |
153081850 | Edo/Tokyo | Tokugawa's capital | 7 | |
153081851 | Charter Oath of 1868 | the new leaders promised to create a new deliberative assembly within the framework of continued imperial rule | 8 | |
153081852 | Liberal and Progressive parties | ... | 9 | |
153081853 | 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. | 10 | |
153081854 | the Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes | forced the Russians into full retreat | 11 | |
153081855 | "no man's land" and the trenches | Territory between rival Trenches, very dangerous | 12 | |
153081856 | "total war" and "war girls" | the channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort | 13 | |
153081857 | Nicholas II and William II | the last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution | 14 | |
153081858 | Rasputin | Siberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II | 15 | |
153081859 | Alexander Kerensky and the Provisional Government | Headed the Provisional Government in 1917. Refused to redistribute confiscated landholdings to the peasants. Thought fighting the war was a national duty. | 16 | |
153081860 | the Duma and the soviets | an elected group of socialists that had very little power and was used to stop absolute monarch | 17 | |
153081861 | Lenin and the Bolshevik party | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) | 18 | |
153081862 | the Red Army and the Red Terror | They won the Russian Civil War and established Russia as the first communist country in the world. They were the Bolshevik soldiers. | 19 | |
153081863 | Treaty of Brest Litovsk | treaty in which Russia lost substantial territory to the Germans. This ended Russian participation in the war. | 20 | |
153081864 | Treaty of Locarno | Guaranteed Germany's new western borders with France and Belgium | 21 | |
153081865 | Credit- Anstalt collapse | Vienna's most prestigious band. Collapsed on May 31, 1931 | 22 | |
153081866 | USSR | a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia | 23 | |
153081867 | New Economic Policy | Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private enterprises. Joseph Stalin ended the N.E.P. in 1928 and replaced it with a series of Five-Year Plans. | 24 | |
153081868 | Dadaism and Surrealism | ○ Life has no purpose, often violent and cruel ○ No clear organizing principles to the writing or staging ○ Confusing and antagonizing to the audience ○ Unconscious mind reveals truth (theatre or cruelty) § Based on the writings of Antonin Artawn who studied Asian religions, mystiasm and ancient culture | 25 | |
153081869 | Salvador Dali | surrealist artist from Spain it seems a delirius fantasy his distorted watches are famous | 26 | |
153087160 | the Bauhous school | school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933 | 27 | |
153087161 | "stream of conciousness" | a style of writing in which the thoughts and feelings of the writer are recorded as they occur | 28 | |
153087162 | Herman Hesse and James Joyce | (1877-1962) A German born poet, novelist, and painter, his most famous works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game. | 29 |