TEST 1 SEMESTER 2

Question 1

Congress of Vienna

Answer 1

a meeting were they reorganized Europe after the Napoleonic wars provides long term peace plan

Question 2

Otto Von Bismarck

Answer 2

• is the chancellor of Prussia
• created an excuse to attack Austria
• he used his policy of “Blood and Iron” to unite the German States under Prussian rule

Question 3

Austro Prussian War

Answer 3

• The Seven week war was between Austro-Prussian
• Seven week war was won by Prussian and they took control of several North German States

Question 4

Franco Prussian War

Answer 4

• Prussia wins
  William I takes the title kaiser but the real power is in Otto Von Bismarcks hands to

Question 5

Russias lack of industrial Revolution

Answer 5

they didnt have one

Question 6

Russian tsar response to reform

Answer 6

imprisoned critics or sent reformers into exile in Siberia

Question 7

The Crimean War

Answer 7

• Russia attempts to gain more warm water ports in the crumbling Ottoman empire
• easily defeated because they could not match the Industrial power of England and France

Question 8

Impact of European Imperalism In Africa and Asia

Answer 8

-King Leopold II of Belgium had hired expeditions to explore the interior of Africa
- Boers descendants of Dutch farmers disliked new British rule (no slavery allowed) and migrated North Cape colony changed from dutch to British rule

Question 9

Social Darwism

Answer 9

A belief in the cultural superiority of western nations over less industry developed nations

Question 10

Berlin Conference

Answer 10

• Nearly 20 years later all of Africa was controlled by European Nations
• Berlin Conference is when European power to meet to avoid bloodshed

Question 11

The Ottoman Empires factors of Decline

Answer 11

• religious reform movements
• changing trade routes
• rising nationalist movements

Question 12

Young Turks and Muhammad Alis Western-inspired reform goals

Answer 12

• Only way to save the empire was to embrace the ways of the west
• Egypt seeks to modernize
• Muhhamad Ali embraced western ideas in the name of reform

Question 13

Importance of Suez Canal

Answer 13

• major route
• IPA Indian Pale Ale

Question 14

British Eat India Company success in India

Answer 14

• British East India company toppled the Mughal Empire - tea, opium , spices

Question 15

Sepoy Mutiny

Answer 15

• hired military working for company
• new rifles cartridges were greased with animal fat
  -Despite losing to British gave the Indians a sense of national unity
• Indians will begin to push for for independence from Britain

Question 16

The Opium War

Answer 16

British merchants made huge profits from opium growth in India
- Opium outlawed in China
- Britain refuses to stop selling opium
- this conflict showed that the “One time super power of the world” (China) was very beatable

Question 17

The Taiping Rebellion

Answer 17

-20-30 million peasants die attempting to remove the backwards Quing Dynasty
- The revot would have worked if not for the European backing up the weak Quing Dynasty

Question 18

The Boxer Rebellion In china

Answer 18

• The Chinese try to kick out the foreigners
• the Boxer Rebellion was defeated by multiple imperalist nations with superior weapons and Industrial based economy

Question 19

Mathew Perry’s impact on Japan

Answer 19

Mathew Perry brought four stemboats into Tokyo Bay in 1853 to pressure Japan to open its ports to trade

Question 20

Meiji Restoration

Answer 20

1. Shotgun removed from power and the emperors power was restored
2. soon after, Japan would borrow the ideas of the west but adapted/modified to them to fit japanese needs
3. Japan easily defeats Russia in the russia japanese war