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FINAL EXAM REVIEW Flashcards

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What were living and working conditions like during the industrial revolution?

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  • Rent was high
  • Women had low pay
  • kids had more dangerous jobs
  • Entrepreneurs got super rich while the poor are suffering
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Effects of the Industrial Revolution

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  • Jobs and population growth
  • A better economy
  • Helped with developing war machinery
  • Dictators rose to power
  • Imperialism
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How did Japan become a modern industrial power?

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  • Emperors gained more power
  • Meij restoration
  • Imperialism
  • Took ideas from the west
  • Got Industrial Revolution
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How did Imperialist European Powers Get control over the majority of Africa in the 1800s?

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  • Berlin Conference divided Africa to determine who got what
  • Europe got most of it (Belgium)
  • Stripped them of their natural resources
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Motivations behind Imperialism

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  • Nationalism
  • Social Darwinism (white evolves faster)
  • White man’s burden - “help” them because they arent as smart
  • Christain Missionaries
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How did China deal with its Internal division and foreign Invasion prior to WWI?

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  • China had struggled with many losses like… Taiping Rebellion, boxer, and Opium War
  • Realized they needed to embrace Western ideas
  • Did industrial revolution better
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How did Britain slowly extend their control over most of India despite their opposition?

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  • The Suez Canal was created to have more direct shipping from Europe to Asia
  • Gave BEI company loooots of $$$$$$$$$$ leading to even more imperialism
  • Took tea, spices, and drugs and sold them to China
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Allied and Central Powers

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Allied - British, Russia, France
Central - Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottomans

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Why and How Did WWI Begin in 1914

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  • A teenager in Bosnia named Princep
  • Shot Franz Ferdinand and was “the shot that started the war”
  • MAIN (militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism)
  • Certain alliances were formed (central and allied)
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How and Where Was WWI Fought?

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  • Germany draws up Schiefflan plan - 6 weeks to win against France bc they thought Russia would take longer
  • Fought with bad methods of poisonous gas but then gas masks were invented
  • Tanks, planes, and zeppelins
  • Trench Warfare
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What are the characteristics of communism and fascism?

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Communism = everyone gets equal pay, no
hierarchy, derived from Karl Marx, economic
equality
-Fascism = Single powerful leader of citizens, with
extreme nationalism and militarism. Has
classes/roles, and dictators in their society

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What were the causes ad effects of the Russian Revolution?

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  • Russia vs Bolsheviks
  • Dissatisfaction among the peasants
  • Bolsheviks took over the Russian gov, kidnapped the Tsar
  • Bolsheviks were communists
  • Everyone goes against the Tsar
  • They sign a peace treaty with the central powers
  • Becomes the Soviet Union
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What were the plans and impacts of the Treaty of Versailles?

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  • Make Germany take the fault for WWI
  • Pay for all damage, reduce military size, and loose land
  • Lead to the Impeasement of Hitler. He kept taking, and eventually took over again
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What were the causes and effects of the Chinese Civil War?

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  • Communists vs Nationalists
  • Striff of power when Mao wanted Communism
  • Chain Kai Sheck wanted (w/US)
  • Mao won and they became communists
  • Caused the “Great Leap Forward”
  • Religion banned by Mao
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What were the effects of the Chinese Communist revolution?

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  • Great Leap Forward tried to modernize their farming and use industrial revo
  • Tried combining seeds, and all the crops died, causing 25M to die
  • Set them back
  • Propaganda attacks gov.
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How and Why Did Fascism Rise in Europe?

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  • Great depression
  • RABID nationalism
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • (Mussolini and Hitler)
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What were the failures of appeasement and the League of Nations?

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  • Kept giving Hitler more and more wiggle room
    and he never abode to treaty of Versailles
  • League of Nations does nothing to help, say their
    going to but never does
  • League of Nations after war changes to United
    Nations say their for peace and peace only
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How did Stalin transform the Soviet Union into a totalitarian communist state?

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  • Purges
    -secret police & cult of personality
  • 5-year plan to industrialize (famine hits)
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What were some characteristics and phases of the holocaust?

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  • Nuremberg laws
  • Gestapo created
  • Kristallnacht
  • ppl sent to Ghettos
  • Concentration camps ready
  • Shaved heads and one-size clothes and shoes and
    tight living quarters
  • Eradication and forced labor
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How/Where was WWII fought?

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  • Easter European countries
  • Started in Poland
  • fought with industry. Rev.
  • fought with Guerrilla warfare
  • Lots of nuclear action
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How did Japan’s role change during the interwar years in Asia?

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  • Japan invades China for natural resources
    committing many war crimes
  • Great depressions change Japan
  • Unlocked military and emperor power
  • More ultra-nationalism
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What issues arose in the aftermath of WWII and how did the new tensions develop?

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  • Nuclear age
  • Cold War began
  • Proxy wars began
  • Issue on who would pay for rebuilt of Germany
  • USA holding secrets from Soviets after WWII
  • Making Nucs and didnt tell them
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What were the causes and consequences of the cold war around the world?

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Causes = rebuild of Germany, USA disobeying ally
Cause of end = Soviet Union split and berlin wall came down
Effects = Everyone is terrified of nuclear war
- Sooooooooooo many deaths
- Conflict and new allies
- Increase and decrease of powers
- Economy
ASK

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How did Gandhi work for independence in India?

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  • Had non-violent marches and protests
  • Peaceful protests
  • Salt march
  • Got beat, but did not fight back
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Why have conflicts plagued some African Countries?

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  • Unstable government
  • Dictators
  • No middle class
  • Imperialism
  • Cold war
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What are the causes and effects of the conflict between Israel and Palestine in 1948?

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Cause = Zionist movement ( Jews wanted to move back to hold lands)
- War breaks out between Palestine and Isreal
- Isreal wins - Weapons from Great Britain
- Palestine kicked out to the desert
Effect = 6 Day war starts bc the Arabs asked for help, but Isreal was given American weapons so they gain land and won anyways
- Arabs hate the US and resort to terrorism because nothing else worked
- 9/11
- US has been giving financial aid ever since

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What was the Crimean War? And what was it over? And Who won?

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  • War between Ottomans and Russia
  • Ottomans had an alliance w/ England so they
    helped bc Ottomans were a crumbling empire
  • Russia wanted Ottoman’s warm water ports since
    Russia was so cold
  • Wanted to take Ottomans so Russia could grow
    more crops/have warm water etc.
    -This led the Tsar in Russia to seek change…..but in
    the end they didn’t cuz they were moving away
    from power
  • Ask
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What is Glasnost in Russia?

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  • No one has freedom of speech
  • Ppl began speaking their minds and venting in
    anger abt Russia sucking
  • Downfall factor for the soviet union
29
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What was perestroika in Russia?

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  • Economic system based on capitalism
  • Rebuilding
30
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How did China’s economy reform during the 1970s?

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  • Communism failed and resorted to partly
    capitalists
  • Saved their economy
  • Chimerica- goods made in China sold to the US
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What was the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989?

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  • College kids led a peaceful protest to demand a
    democracy
  • Gov. kills them (tank pic)
  • Led China to embrace broad censorship
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Meiji Restoration

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  • Mathew Perry blasted Japanese boats to inspire them to get power
  • Meiji took power and modernized them
  • Japanese do it better the Europe
  • Beat Russia

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