Period 6 AP World History Flashcards
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| 4025204589 | Imperialism | the economic and political domination of a weaker nation by a stronger one or ones | 0 | |
| 4025204590 | Nationalism | Pride/ love for one's country | 1 | |
| 4025204591 | White Lotus rebellions | Chinese rebellions led by Buddhists who were frustrated over taxes and government corruption | 2 | |
| 4025204592 | Taiping Rebellions | Chinese rebellions led by a religious zealot claiming to be the brother of Jesus who recruited an army nearly a million strong and nearly succeeded in bringing down the Manchu government | 3 | |
| 4025204593 | Self- Strengthening Movement | 1861 - 1895, was a period of institutional reforms initiated in China during the late Qing dynasty following a series of military defeats and concessions to foreign powers (trying to get its act together!) | 4 | |
| 4025204594 | Sino-French War | 1883 war in which the Chinese lost count Byron of Vietnam to the French (their French colony there call Indochina) | 5 | |
| 4025204595 | Sino-Japanese war | War: China (Qing dynasty) vs. Japan-> both fighting over control of Korea | 6 | |
| 4025204596 | Treaty of Shimonoseki | In 1895, in this treaty China was forced to hand over control of Taiwan to Japan and grant Japanese trading rights | 7 | |
| 4025204597 | Spheres of influence | is a spatial region or concept division over which a state or organization has a level of cultural, economic, military, or political exclusivity, accommodating to the interests of powers outside the borders of the state that controls it. | 8 | |
| 4025204598 | Boxers | Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists | 9 | |
| 4025204599 | Boxer Protocol | Demanded that China pay the Europeans and Japanese retribution from the Boxer rebellions and apologize to them | 10 | |
| 4025204600 | Commodore Matthew Perry | In 1853 this man arrived in Japan to demand that Japan open its doors to trade and diplomatic relations w/ U.S. & other countries | 11 | |
| 4025204601 | Meiji Restoration | Ushered in an era of Japanese westernization after which Japan emerged as a world power (restored emperor Meiji to power) | 12 | |
| 4025204602 | Boer Wars | (1899-1902) War: British vs. South Africans -> fought for control over resources in South Africa | 13 | |
| 4025204603 | Muhammad Ali | Ruler of Egypt after Napoleon tries to make it part of French empire and fails | 14 | |
| 4025204604 | Suez Canal | Canal completed in 1869 that connected the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean | 15 | |
| 4025204605 | Berlin Conference of 1884 | -conference in which European powers resolved claiming issues to African Congo | 16 | |
| 4025204606 | Franco-Prussian War | A war which, once won, consolidated German Catholic regions under Prussian control | 17 | |
| 4025204607 | Emancipation Edict | Abolished serfdom in Russia | 18 | |
| 4025204608 | Russification | -process that happened in 1860s in Russia when Alexander III tried to suppress anything anti-Russian | 19 | |
| 4025204609 | Monroe Doctrine | Declared by U.S. President Monroe and said that the western part of the U.S. was off limits for Europeans to colonize/ take | 20 | |
| 4025204610 | Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine | Added by President Roosevelt that said that the U.S. would intervene in financial disputes between European powers and countries in the Americas (if doing so would help maintain the peace) | 21 | |
| 4025576748 | Estates General | "Governing body" for France & represented the 3 estates (clergy, nobles, & peasants) | 22 | |
| 4025576749 | National Assembly | In France 3rd estates break away because they are mad and declare themselves this | 23 | |
| 4025576750 | Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | 1st declaration made by the National Assembly recognizing the natural rights and based on the ideas of the Enlightenment (doromac) | 24 | |
| 4025576751 | Convention | Under 2nd French constitution these people become the new ruling body, it quickly abolishes the monarchy and proclaims France a republic | 25 | |
| 4025576752 | Committee of Public Safety | In France, an all powerful enforcer of the Revolution and murderer of anyone who was anti-revolutionary | 26 | |
| 4025576753 | Maximilien Robespierre | Leader of the French committee of public safety and his followers were called Jacobins | 27 | |
| 4025576754 | Directory | Established after the 3rd French constitution, and established a new 5 man government called this | 28 | |
| 4025576755 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Military leader,Tried to expand France's realm and become emperor of it all, was exiled twice | 29 | |
| 4025576756 | Battle of Waterloo | What battle was Napoleon defeated at? | 30 | |
| 4025576757 | Napoleonic Codes | (1804) recognized the French citizens (men) and institutionalizes some of the Enlightenment ideas | 31 | |
| 4025576758 | Congress of Vienna | Where European powers come together to talk about how to keep the balance of power and prevent another Napoleon from happening | 32 | |
| 4025576759 | Pierre Toussaint L'Ouverture | Former slave who led the Haiti slave revolt | 33 | |
| 4025576760 | Jacques Dessalines | Takes over governing after L'Ouverture is captured | 34 | |
| 4025576761 | Simon Bolivar | Creole and Venezuelan who is sent to Europe for education comes back to Venezuela independent to keep Napoleon from getting it | 35 | |
| 4025576762 | Gran Columbia | Simon bolivar wants this independent confederation of states, lasts (1819-1830) | 36 | |
| 4025576763 | Pedro II | Person who declares Brazil independent | 37 | |
| 4025576764 | Miguel Hidalgo | In Mexico: A creole priest who sympathized with those who had been abused under Spanish colonialism, & led a revolt against Spanish rule | 38 | |
| 4025576765 | Treaty of Córdoba | Treaty that established Mexican independence from Spain | 39 | |
| 4025576766 | Britain | Where did the industrial revolution start? | 40 | |
| 4025576767 | Flying shuttle | Sped up the weaving process; invented by John Kay | 41 | |
| 4025576768 | Spinning Jenny | Capable of spinning vast amounts of thread; invented by John Hargreaves | 42 | |
| 4025576769 | Eli Whitney | Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts | 43 | |
| 4025576770 | Steam engine | Ran on steam, and fueled the industrial revolution | 44 | |
| 4025576771 | Charles Darwin | Developed the concept of natural selection and survival of the fittest | 45 | |
| 4025576772 | Assembly line | -created by Henry Ford to make things more quickly, each worker only does one job in making the product w/ this | 46 | |
| 4025779083 | Social Darwinists | Applied Charles Darwin's biological theory of natural selection to sociology | 47 | |
| 4025779084 | Indian National Congress | In 1885 a group of well-educated Indians formed this to begin a path towards India's independence | 48 | |
| 4025779085 | Opium war | War the was fueled between the British and Chinese over trading Opium; British wins war(s) | 49 | |
| 4025779086 | Treaty of Nanjing | First of the unequal treaties that China signs after losing the first Opium war to Britain; this treaty puts Britain as favorable | 50 |