Final Flashcards
England
Independent
Many inventions
Time of Queen Victoria
Hitler
Biggest villain and problem of WW2 Mama's boy Untalented artist who fought in WW1 Didnt get into art school and mom died. Blame Jews for killing her mother and why he didnt get into art school. Too much of jews Joined Germany and received medals
World War 1
Main causes:
1) Ottomans empire collapse
2) increasing nationalism
*formation of nations
3) Europeans nations choosing sides
Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
Triple Entente: France, Russia, Great Britain
China
a
France
Were Nazi in WWII
India
a
World War II
Fall out of WWI Causes: 1)The Versailes Treaty 2)The Depression 3)Hitler
Imperialism (Colonization)
a
Hong Kong
given to british under Treaty of Nanjing
Allies (WWI)
Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
Triple Entente: France, Russia, Great Britain
Allies (WWII)
a
Nazis/Fascism
Nazi-German Worker’s Party or National Socialist German Worker’s Party; The “Fuhrer”
Japan
Take over the Pacific; mad of the unfair share they recieved
Commodore Perry
U.S arrives in Japan 1853
1868-Tokugawa overthrown
Meiji Restoration
a
Germany
German parliament had 230 or 670 seats occupied by Nazi
De Beers
along with Cecil Phodes were companies that still control 60%+ of diamond trade
Sepoy Mutiny
1857- Seploys were Indians trained to shoot guns. broke out b/c of animal fat (cow & pig) : Indians hung for this
Lusitania
British passenger ship
Submarines( U- boats)
inventions used for war during WWI
submarine incident, sinking of Lusitania
U.S enter war under Woodrow Wilson
Piracy
The practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea.
Bolshevik Revolution
1917-When Russia become communist; got them out of the war; royal family was murdered
League of Nations
now called United Nations; to promote world peace
Scramble for Africa
a
Berlin Conference
Europeans decide which parts of africa each one recieves; time period for scramble of africa
British East India Company
in the Atlantic; pirate company hired by british to take over the oceans for england
Anglo-Boer War
Africkaners vs. British; fight over diamonds; british
Slave trade
Triangular trade; British take over Slave trade; how British became rich and powerful with the industrial revolution
White Man’s burden
to educate the uncivilized and non whites
Trench warfare
inventions and war technologly,in the trenches : terrible conditions, the war atrtion; no one moves
no mans land, disease, trench foot, barb wire, starvation, fleas
airplanes
new technology during WWII; jets were being invented during this time instead of propeller ones
Vichy
a
serbia
a
