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new imperialism Flashcards

unit 1

1
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what is imperialism

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the policy of one countries politicial economical and cultural domination over another country

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2
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what where the dates of new imperialism

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1800s through 1900s

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where did old imperialism colonize

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americas and outside of americas

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what was the date of old imperialism

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1400s through 1600s

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what is another term for old imperialism

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the age of discovery

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what are the main european countries

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spain, portugal, britian, and france

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6
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what made the european countries so strong

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they had strong central governments and the industrial revolution

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7
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where did they mostly sell stuff during the industrial revolution

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africa and asia

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8
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why did they use africa and asia during industrial revolution

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natural resources, human resources, diamonds and coal, easy to control because they didn’t have weaponry

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9
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what were the main causes of new imperialism

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economic, had to buy materials
military/political, bases

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10
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what is humanitariaism

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when people from europe go on a “civilizing” mission, going to peole who aren’t like them because their not “civilized” and made them like them, but built hospitals and schools also

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11
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what is social darwinism

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“survival of the fittest”
people who aren’t european don’t survive

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what were the main countries using new imperialism

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britian, france, germany, austria-hungary, russia, and italy

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13
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who went to africa and asia after they were taken over

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explorers, merchants, soldiers, missionaries, and settlers

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14
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name all of the vunerable nations

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ottoman empire (leadership was bad and declining - turned into turkey)
mughal empire (india - fighting with with the muslims and hindus)
Qing dynasty (china - last dynasy and getting weaker)
in africa most conflicts were from within

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western advantages

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strong economy from industrial revolution and money went to army, superior tech like river boats, telegraph, medical, weapons like the maxim guns

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16
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what did the europeans do to create weak nations

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turn the people within the country against each other and get them to fight so they could more easily take over

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17
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why did most african and asian countries loose

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because they had such bad guns

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18
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what happens if you resisted and fought back against the europeans and lost

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you would become an unpaid laborer or slave

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19
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what did some countries use to fight back

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enlightment

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20
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what is enlightment

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a time period of people wanted freedom liberty and self rule

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21
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what are the types of emperial rule

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direct, indirect, and protectorate

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22
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what is direct rule

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used by the french - send peole from europe to the country and rule it because they thought that they were uncapable of ruling by themselves

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what is indirect rule

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used by the british - leaders in the native country rule with help from the european country

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24
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four causes of ww1

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militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism

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25
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who were the allies

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russia, france, britian, us, and italy, japan

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26
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who were the central powers

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germany, austria - hungary, ottoman empire, and bulgaria

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27
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who was the heir to the throne of austria - hungary

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franz - ferdinand

28
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what is militariasm

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belief that a country should have the strongest military ( glorification of military)

29
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what were some of the advanced weaponry

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planes, poisseness gas, tanks, submaries, barbed wire, machine guns, artiliery

30
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what was the problem with germany

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they were surronded by their enemies

31
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what is nationalism

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devotion to ones nation but only like it to be one signal ethnic group

32
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what was the triple entente

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france, britian, and russia

33
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what was the triple alliance

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germany, austria - hungary, and italy

34
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kaiser wilhelm

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german emperor

35
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king george V

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king of england

36
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Tsar Nicholas ll

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emperor or russia

37
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explain the murder of Franz Ferdinand

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he was the heir to austira hungary and he and his wife sophia travelled to sarajevo (bosnia) where the black hand (a group of ethnic serbs) was planning on killing him because they believed bonsia belonged to serbia. But they missed their chance but then later the archuduke made a wrong turn and got shot by princip killing him and his wife

38
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what happened after the murder of the archuduke ferdinand

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germany stepped in to tell austria hungary that they are here to support, then ah sent demands to serbia but they declined and russia stepped in to help serbia

39
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what is the schlieffen plan

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germany made a plan that can help with attack on both fronts by quickly attacking and defeating france and then fighting russia because they needed to defeat france before they could fully mobolize

40
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why did great britian join the war

A

because germany invaded belgium even though they were neutral

41
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why wasn’t germany able to defeat france quickly

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when they invaded neutral belgium they fought back really hard allowing france and britian to mobolize on them

42
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describe the first battle of marne

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allies stopped germans with a successful counterattack, 6 days long 500,000 casulaties, after battle both sides made trenches, battle lines remained largely unchanged for 4 years - this ends the schlieffen plan

43
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around how much trench was there

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450 miles worth of it

44
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what were some diseases in the trenches

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dysnetery, cholera, and typhoid

45
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for how long would they be in the trenches for

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weeks or months at a time

46
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what did the british do to help with the stalement

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they created tanks to help get over no mans land

47
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what thing did the germans create

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the zeppelins “large gas filled balloons” and submarines

48
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what was some of the new tech in the war

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gas, barbed wire, machine guns

49
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what happened when the ottomans joined the war

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they cut off the straight cutting off the flow of supplies and new zealend, indian, australian and british forces were sent to open it this is the battle of galipoli, allies lost after 10 months

50
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what happened when WW1 became a total war

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relied of conscriptions or military drafts and everyone was rationing

51
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what did the women do in the war

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worked in factories, served as nurses in hospitals and on the front lines, afterward a lot of women were able to get suffrage (the ability to vote)

52
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what were the three main reasons america didn’t join the war

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isolationism, diverse population, economic interests

53
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what happened in 1914 with the british

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they put a blockade with mines and ships to cut off the centrals resources, because international law said you can confiscate military weapons

54
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what did berlin do about the british blockade

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they announces submarine warfare around the british isles

55
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what was the ship lusitania

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it was a british passenger ship that was torpedoed by germany and sank off of ireland, 128 americans were on the boat, america was pissed

56
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what was the sussex pledge

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germany promised nit to sink vessels without warning, but they broke it by announcing unrestricted sub warfare, they did this because they thought they could defeat allies before america mobolized

57
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why did russia withdraw in 1917

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they were having their own revolution

58
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what was the zimmerman telegram

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german foriegn secretary aurthur zimmerman was living in america when they sent a telegram to mexico offering a mexico german alliance by offering mexico money and land, they did this to try and stop america from joining the war

59
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why did america hate germany

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broke sussex pledge
unrestricted sub boats
zimmerman telegram

60
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name four points of wilsons 14 points

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free trade
open agreement
spead of democracy
self determination
wanted people to make peace with each other

61
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what were three things that the us helped with

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a boost or morale
troop reinforcements
economic support

62
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when did the war end

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11:00 on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918

63
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who were the big four

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america, france, england, italy

64
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what was the order of who surrenered from the central powers

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bulgaria, ottoman empire, austria hungary, germany

65
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what was the treaty of versailles

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germany had to pay 33 billion dollars, give a lot of land escpecially from africa and asia, and make their army smaller because they help germany responsible for starting the war, these led to resentment led by adolf hitler

66
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what was some of the consiquences of WW1

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millions of deaths, weakened workforces, combat zones needed rebuilding, led to hyperflation in germany

67
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what is self determination

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the process by whicdh a country determines its own statehodd and forms its own allegiances and governments (one of the 14 points)

68
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what was the spanish flu

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not from spain, from kansas, 500 million infected 50 million deaths, no vacines (675 k americans)

9th grade (3 decks)

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