Final Part 2 Flashcards
What was the dynasty in Southern China, created by Hong Xiuquan ( who grew up in a poor family, learned about Christianity and thought he was Jesus’ younger brother)?
Taiping
What did Hong Xiuquan call himself and claimed to be as the creator of the Taiping dynasty in southern China?
(he grew up in a poor family, learned about Christianity and thought he was Jesus’ younger brother) Called himself “Heavenly King” and the dynasty as “Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace”.
In Russia, to deal with local issues of health, education, and welfare, the government created elected district assemblies, known as what, in 1864?
zemstvos
During World War II, what country entered into many areas of Asia including China, Korea, the Philippines, and more, with their actions initially being the reason for the start of the Second World War?
Japanese
Who was the prime minister of Cape Colony which is present South Africa, where he played as the organizer of the diamond mining company De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd?
Cecil Rhodes
What event in history was mainly between the Russians and the British, as they started to map out terrains that were never visited by Europeans before, starting in Central Asia and made its way down for the control of India in the early 1900s?
Great Game
At what conference did delegates of 12 different European states as well as the U.S. and the Ottoman Empire come together to divide up Africa for themselves?
Berlin Conference - The events that followed this conference later became known as the Scramble for Africa.
What exerted the U.S. right to intervene in the domestic affairs of nations within the hemisphere if they demonstrated an inability to maintain the security deemed necessary to protect U.S. investments?
The “Roosevelt Corollary”
What people worked on plantations or manual laborers for mining enterprises or large scale construction projects, mostly from India?
Indentured servants
What was the Franco- Prussian War?
it was a conflict between France and Prussia, signaled the rise of German military power which was provoked by Otto von Bismarck, France was humiliating defeated
How were the German offensive in 1914?
a German thrust towards Paris in 1914 that came to a halt along the river Marne and both sides undertook flanking maneuvers, a “race to the sea” that took them to the Atlantic coast.
What tasks did women perform during World War I?
the women filled the gaps in the workforce. The combination of patriotism and high wages drew many women to the “male” jobs. The most crucial work performed by women was the making of shells which put many lives in danger during the process
What was One of the four sub-Saharan African European colonies controlled by Germans?
Togoland - eventually fell to an Anglo-French force after three weeks of fighting.
What was noted by Gertrude Stein to her fellow American writer by the name of Ernest Hemingway?
Lost Generation - It was given to a group of individuals and literati who congregated in Paris in the Postwar years.
Who was a German theoretical physicist known for his “Uncertainty principle” and awarded a nobel prize as one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics?
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)
Who was a Post-impressionist artist who was inspired by the “primitive” art he found in Tahiti, claiming it held a sense of wonder that “civilized” people no longer possessed?
Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
On October 24, 1929; a wave of panic selling on the New York Stock Exchange caused the stocks to plummet. Investors who had overextended themselves in stock purchases watched in agony. Thousands lost life savings, commited suicide. Crisis left investors to sell their securities at any price. This event is known as what?
Black Thursday
Lenin implemented what policy to temporarily restore the market economy and some private enterprise in Russia, with large corporations still left under state control but government returned small industries?
NEP (New Economic Policy)
What saws in 1935 deprived German Jews of their citizenship and prohibited marriage and sexual intercourse between Jews and other Germans?
Nuremberg Laws
What is “the night of broken glass”, on November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis arranged for the destruction of thousands of Jewish shops/stores, the burning of most synagogues, and the murder of 100+ Jews throughout Germany and Austria?
Kristallnacht
During the 25 years Mohandas K. Gandhi spent in South Africa, he developed the technique of passive political resistance called what or truth force?
Satyagraha
The peacemakers in the 1919 Peace Conference in Paris approved increasing Japanese interference in China, which led to what movement, which was led by students and intellectuals, it galvanized China and all classes protested against foreign (Japanese) interference?
May 4 Movement
On September 18, 2931, Japanese troops blew up several feet of rail on the Japanese-built South Manchuria railroad, north of what place, becoming a pretext for a prolonged military conflict between Japan and China?
Mukden
During the 1880s, an ideology known as what arose in prominence called by Black American activists, like W.E.B Dubois or Marcus Garvey, calling for the unification of Africa and African people under a unified state, often involving calls for African diasporan immigrants to move back to Africa?
Pan-Africanism
