Midterm

Question 1

Sovereignty

Answer 1

the ability to control your borders and project your interests

Question 2

Ghandi

Answer 2

Credited with bringing down colonial rule in india
Life is analogy for the feelings of inclusion and exclusion of empires
Born in india, studied law in Britain
went home couldnt find work brother tells him about
work in south africa then the boer republics was shown no respect
‘turban in court’, kicked off a train
Saw the lie equal british subjects

Question 3

Hind Swaraj

Answer 3

ghandi’s book on home rule that was banned by the british

Question 4

The Berlin Conference

Answer 4

1884-5, scramble for Africa. Europeans ending up competing for the same land. So they had a conference to divide it up w/o conflict. Hosted by Bismark in berlin to stop the competition between france and britain mostly in w. africa

Question 5

The concert of europe

Answer 5

created a Europe dominated by empires, namely Austria, Russia, Britain, Prussia, and eventually France. These empires were focused solely on peace between each other and continued to be harshly oppressive in respect to freedom of thought and association. created after defeat of napoleon to stop inter-empire wars

Question 6

congress of vienna

Answer 6

where the major powers established the concert of europe. agreed to settle things through diplomacy

Question 7

Meiji Restoration

Answer 7

Repositioning globally: take technology; military, and develops the military capacity.
Subsidizes industry

Question 8

1905 Revolution in russia

Answer 8

Established a limited constitutional monarchy. forced the creation of the duma, the multiparty system and the russian constitution on 1906. Started after st. petersburg strike massacre. trotsky and lenin involved

Question 9

Franz Ferdinand

Answer 9

Austrian archduke was assassinated June 1914 by serbians. Austria-Hungary confronts the serbians. russia back the serbs, germany back AH, France backs Russia, britain back france and russia. yay ww1!

Question 10

schlieffen plan

Answer 10

germans plan to knock france out of the war. they would go to the english channel and then swoop down to paris. didn’t work turned too soon.

Question 11

plan 17

Answer 11

charge germans on french german border. stupid plan didn’t work

Question 12

Trench warfare

Answer 12

fighting and living in the trenches

Question 13

sinking of the lusitania

Answer 13

1915, over 100 americans were killed aboard a ship. germans promised to not engage in unrestricted submarine warfare any longer.

Question 14

British defeat at gallipoli

Answer 14

1915, wanted to control sea route from europe to russia. at the behest of the russians. 35000 killed

Question 15

Russian Revolution

Answer 15

1917, Liberals in duma say the monarchy has to go. a provisional government is set up. theres tons of people who want control. germans decide to help the most destabalizing candidate make it russia, lenin. october 1917 bolsheviks take power. Dismisses gov’t.

Question 16

Romanovs

Answer 16

Imperial family in russia. 1613-1917

Question 17

Treaty of Brest Litovsk

Answer 17

March 1918. takes russia out of the war they have to give land away to do so. Germany balkans. ukraine independent. ottomans also. plus 6 billion marks in reparations.

Question 18

Versailles

Answer 18

Peace conference after ww1.
- Germany must reduce it's armed forces
- take responsibility for war
- pay war reparations for everything
- lose it's colonies, some european territories
Created the league of nations.

Question 19

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 19

New vision of sovereignty: transparency, democratic states against autocracy, no intrigue.”The war was fought for a peace without victory”. influenced by youth in reconstruction south. Wanted Balance and int’l arbitration hence he wanted a league of nations. Strong prop of free trade. Self determination.

Question 20

Lenin

Answer 20

Revolutionary vanguard. a war fought by ruthless capitalists without regard for common people. Changed marxism.. can’t wait for history, but class conflict is still the driver of history

Question 21

George Clémenseau

Answer 21

French negotiator at versailles who lived through franco-prussian war. sole goal is to protect france from germany.

Question 22

lloyd George

Answer 22

leader of liberal party. there will be validation for their sacrifice in war. Wants restoration of balance so there won’t be anymore war. wants germany well behaved

Question 23

League of Nations

Answer 23

Prelude to UN; not particularly effective. Spread the idea that many problems required experts from all over the place. Protect the sovereinity of every member. Not really heavy on the laws. technical services much more successful as was secretariat. comprised a body of experts in various spheres

Question 24

1st Communist international

Answer 24

must be loyal to moscow

must destroy moderate socialism

Question 25

Josef Stalin

Answer 25

has power by 1929. socialism in one country

Question 26

1st and 2nd 5 year plans

Answer 26

1st, 28-32, farm collectivization, and rapid industrialization to bring about revolution?
2nd 33-37 heavy industry, produced 2nd most steal in europe

Question 27

The Munich Conference

Answer 27

“appeasement” 38. France, Italy, Germany and the Uk. Allows germany to annex Sudetenland from czech where their military was. Hitler says hell destroy czech but no one wants war. Says it’s his last demand.
They then occupy the rump state in march, poland in september.

Question 28

Neville Chamberlain

Answer 28

British Premier who thought hitler would stop with sud. when he doesn’t neville is forced to resign.

Question 29

Molotov Ribbentrop Pact

Answer 29

Non aggression Pact between the Soviet Union and germany. Creates spheres of influence, both gain military victories and land
Germans get part of poland while soviets get other part plus baltic states
germans needed resources from the east and now has a buffer zone on all sides
Soviets just wanted stability

Question 30

Blitzkrieg

Answer 30

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Question 31

Lend Lease act

Answer 31

allows president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital

Question 32

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 32

Massive german offensive against SU. Had been planning it from the start. Ultimately failed and signaled a change in their fortunes.

Question 33

Russo Japanese war

Answer 33

1904-5, Japanese win. fight over machuria and korea. russia wanted warm water port. japan had offered russia manchuria but wanted to keep korea

Question 34

Washington conference

Answer 34

international conference called by the United States to limit the naval arms race and to work out security agreements in the Pacific area. Held in Washington, D.C., the conference resulted in the drafting and signing of several major and minor treaty agreements.

Question 35

The nine-power treaty

Answer 35

6 euro powers as well as US japan and china agree to keep china intact but it has to open up to econ trade with everyone

Question 36

Mukden Incident

Answer 36

was a staged event engineered by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the Japanese invasion of the northeastern part of China, known as Manchuria, in 1931.
On September 18, 1931, a small quantity of dynamite was detonated by Lt. Kawamoto Suemori close to a railway line owned by Japan’s South Manchuria Railway near Mukden. Although the explosion was so weak that it failed to destroy the track and a train passed over it minutes later, the Imperial Japanese Army, accusing Chinese dissidents of the act, responded with a full invasion that led to the occupation of Manchuria, in which Japan established its puppet state of Manchukuo six months later. The ruse of war was soon exposed to the international community, leading Japan to diplomatic isolation and its March 1933 withdrawal from the League of Nations

Question 37

Rape of Nanking

Answer 37

was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The massacre occurred during a six-week period starting from December 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanking, which was then the Chinese capital. During this period, between 40,000 to over 300,000 Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants were murdered by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army. Widespread rape and looting also occurred.

Question 38

Pearl Harbor

Answer 38

The japanese have taken control of many French and british holdings in SE asia. as a result the us has cut japan out of trade. so to continue expansion japan needs us completely out. Japanese attack pearl harbor and dismantle much of pacific fleet but the aircraft carriers. japanese establish strong line of defense and take indonesia and singapore plus others. december 1 41

Question 39

Tehran Conference

Answer 39

1943 conference with stalin churchill and roosevelt. discussed allied victory and opening up the second front at normandy.

Question 40

D-Day

Answer 40

invasion of normandy 1944. swift procession to paris. marks opening of second front

Question 41

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 41

we beat hitler. hitler tried a blitzkrieg through netherlands but ran outta fuel

Question 42

The final solution

Answer 42

geopolitics, economic/material capacity and racial ideology were inseperable. concentration camps, mobile killing units. 2/3 of all jews in europe from 1939 were killed