Ta APWH Unit 7 Flashcards
Mexican Revolution 7.1
Madero was sent to jail by Diaz, lots of opposition towards Diaz’s policies, land reforms, and accompany to foreign powers, Madero escaped and set up revolutionary offices, Madero’s troops under command of Villa attacked and defeated Mexican troops, Zapata redistributed land to peasants, resulted in new constitution in 1917 and Institutional Revolutionary Party was created in 1929, LO1; led to political instability and violence, adapted new constitution
Russian Revolution 7.1
Events leading up to: Bloody Sunday petition where marchers were killed, Revolution of 1905 workers refused to work and were killed, injured, or exiled, Russo-Japanese War, World War I, Russia was falling behind Europe in power, slower to reform and industrialize, in 1917 Bolsheviks under Lenin seized power and created a communist gov. and became successful, LO1; internal and external factors led to the revolution and reform of Russia
Causes of WWI 7.2
Nationalism, self-determination, Imperialism made European nations want to colonize overseas colonies , Militarism made nations want to show their strength through their military power, Alliances helped nations work together against a rival, LO2; competition in these subjects led to the first world war
Total War 7.3
nations committed all of their efforts into the war and the entire population would be committed to winning the war, LO3; more women started working in factories Chinese laborers were imported to do important shortage tasks, used propaganda, planned out wages, food sources, and censored the media
Great Depression 7.4
Treaty of Versailles made Germany pay for war reparations, Germany couldn’t make payments so they printed more money leading to inflation, France and Britain weren’t able to pay US for war loans, Germany was having trouble paying France and Britain, led to global downturn, US had agricultural overproduction and stock market crashes, Keynes created deficit spending, LO4; different nations reacted to the great Depression differently but all were poor responses
New Deal 7.4
Franklin Roosevelt used Keynes’ economic ideals, was a group of policies that to bring relief, recovery, and reform, relief for the suffering like the poor, minorities, farmers, unemployed, and women, recovery to get nation out of Depression, reform to change gov. policies to avoid future troughs, LO4; US used a beneficial way to get nation out of crisis through gov. spending
Fiver Year Plans (Soviet Union) 7.4
Lenin created NEP, Stalin took control of Politburo and instituted the plan in attempt to transform the USSR into an industrial power, tried to catch up to the West, collectivization eliminated private land ownership and forced redistribution of land, livestock, and tools made farmers mad, growth of industry led to new job opportunities in factories, executed opponents, LO4; quickly industrialized the nations and strengthened military powers
Fascists Corporate Economy 7.4
Italian response to the Great Depression, glorified militarism and force, extreme nationalism, corporatism was the idea that the sectors of the economy were different organs of the same body, created a totalitarian state, LO4; Italian’s response to Great Depression
Mandates 7.5
mandate system was created by League of Nations to rule colonies and territories of the Central Powers, Allied countries were able to increase their power through a new form on colonization, stated that Africa and Asia needed leadership from advanced nations to stay alive, infuriated Arabs and led to nationalist movement called Pan-Arabism, LO5; Europeans nations continued to perceive Asia and Africa as underdeveloped and wanted to colonize them
Causes of WWII 7.6
Political and economic instability, rise of fascism, rise of Nazism, Hitler had extreme views of the Aryan race, anti- Semitism, scientific racism, militarism, appeasement, LO6; these factors led up to WWII because they by providing ways for nations to build and prepare for a war
New Military Tech WWII 7.7
Hitler used a strategy called blitzkrieg which was a lightning war in attempt to dial Poland down, he ordered a large campaign against an island near the German air force called Luftwaffe, aircraft carriers were ships that allowed planes to take off and land on decks at sea, this helped the Allied forces because it provided air support and made it convenient for naval forces, LO7; different forces used different techniques that would benefit them in war
Holocaust 7.8
Hitler had a specific view of the Aryan race, Nazis began moving from place to place to kills Jews as well as rounding them up and sending them to death camp, Nazis killed 6 million Jews by the end of the war and another 5 million of people who were persecuted, LO8; Hitler had a specific view of the Aryan race leading him to killing anyone that didn’t fit the standards such as political opponents, the disabled, LGBT, and especially the Jews
Ukrainian Genocide 7.8
In the USSR, peasants resisted Stalin’s collectivization of agriculture, they acted on this by destroying their crops and killing their livestock which led to famine, 7 to 10 million peasants died from this, although there weren’t many the gov. took crops that were grown and fed them to industrial workers, LO8; the extremist power of Stalin led to famine of millions of peasants but growth to industry
