WHAP 4th Six Weeks Vocabulary Flashcards

315575349	Industrialization	The process in which a society or country transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services	0
315575350	Nationalism	Devotion to the culture of a nation	1
315575351	Social Darwinism	The belief that one achieves more than others by genetic or biological superiority	2
315575352	Opium War	War between Great Britain and China over the Chinese importation of opium	3
315575353	Factory System	A method of manufacturing adopted in England during the Industrial Revolution	4
315575354	Mejii Restoration	A change in political control of Japan whereby the emperor regained his political power	5
315575355	Zaibatsu	Huge industrial combines created in Japan in the 1890's as part of the process of industrialization	6
315575356	Intelligentsia	Russian term for articulate intellectuals as a class	7
315575357	Congress of Vienna	European meeting after Napoleon's defeat to try and restore political stability and settle diplomatic disputes	8
315575358	Radical	A person who believes in the democratic movement that called for liberalism and extended personal rights and freedoms	9
315575359	Toussaint L' Ouverture	a leader of the Haitian revolt against France	10
315575360	Caudillos	military juntas or governments	11
315575361	Miguel Hidalgo	Creole priest in Mexico who led rebellion against Spain	12
315575362	Sino-Japanese War	War fought between China and Japan over Korea from 1894 to 1895	13
315575363	Simon Bolivar	Creole military leader who fought for Columbian independence between 1817 and 1822	14
315575364	Duma	Something like parliament but has no real power, every time they tried to make change, Czar disbanaded them	15
315575365	Creoles	People of Iberian Peninsular descent who were born in Latin America	16
315575366	Liberal	A person willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own	17
315575367	Conservative	A person not changing or innovating, holding on to traditional values	18
315575368	Crimean War	A war between Russia and a group of nations including England, France, Turkey and Sardina from 1853 to 1856	19
315575369	Tokugawa Shogunate	Family of warlords who seized control of Japan in 1600s	20
315575370	Diet	Parliamentary legislative body that had no real power in Japan	21
315575371	Socialism	Idea that economic competition is inherently unfair and leads to injustice/inequality	22
315575372	Romanticism	Most important; emotion / passion, more self expression. Self-realization of the individual, heroism, love of the natural world	23
315575373	Taping Rebellion	Rebellion initiated by Hong Xiaquan to overthrow the Manchurians and establish the kingdom of Heaven in China	24
315575374	Boxer Rebellion	Violent movement against non-Chinese cultural influence in China during the final years of the 19th century	25
315575375	Trans-Siberian Railroad	Connected European Russia with the Pacific Ocean	26
315575376	Boer War	The name given to the South African Wars of 1880-1 and 1899-1902	27
315575377	Suez Canal	a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea	28
315575378	Socialist Revolution	A proletarian (servant) revolt inspired by the ideas of Karl Marx	29
315575379	Proto-Industrialization	Preliminary shift away from an agricultural economy	30
315575380	Feminist Movement	Sought legal and democratic gains for women such as equal access to education, right to vote, professions in workplace	31
315575381	Triple Alliance	Alliance between Germany, Austri-Hungary and Italy at the end of 19th century	32
315575382	Triple Entente	Agreement between Britain, Russia, and France in 1907	33
315575383	Partition	a division of property among joint owners or tenants in common or a sale of such property followed by a division of the proceeds	34
315575384	Benito Juarez	Indian lawyer and politician who led a liberal revolution against Santa Ana	35
315575385	Profirio Diaz	A general in Juarez army who was elected as president of Mexico and ruled for 35 years	36
315575386	Tropical Dependencies	Western European possessions in Africa, Asia, and South Pacific where small number of Europeans ruled a large indigenous populations	37
315575387	Gunboat diplomacy	Diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force	38
315575388	Modernization Theory	Summarize modern transformations of social life	39
315575389	Ottoman Society for Union and Progress	A secret circle of liberal-minded students in the imperial military medical school in Constantinople (now Istanbul) who aspired to overthrow the autocratic regime of Sultan Abdulhamit II	40
315575390	Holy Alliance	Alliance between Russia, Prussia and Austria to defend the established order	41
315575391	Anarchists	Political group that sought the absolution of formal goverment as a way of creating a better society	42
315575392	Bolsheviks	Most radical group of the Russian Marxists movement	43