Unit 5 Flashcards
What group started the Indian National Congress?
Indian elites that were educated with European western methods
Sun Yatsen led the _________ movement in China.
Nationalist
what is PanIslamism. name an example
all muslim people come together to make one big Nation of Islam
impacts of WW1
- nationalist among colonies
- germany fought hard (no alliances with austria, no navy, had to pay for the war)
- Europeans lost their prestige (they were no longer the best civilized area)
what happened to social hierarchies within european society
women gained voting rights and higher status in many places after the war.
what happened to global trade?
It did NOT increase
Rivalry between which two countries and in what way led to WW1
Germany & Great Britain; naval races
which two innovations in the western front made it a stalemate?
poisonous gas, machine guns, barbed wire
Woodrow Wilson put forth his 14 points after the war, which he expected to be used as treaty measures. which one was the only one actually used?
creation of League of Nations
reds vs. whites; lenin is helping them out. The leader did not overthrow the czar. instead, after cczar was abdicated the provisional government overthrew when they formed the winter palace and took control.
Bolsheviks revolution
How did WW1 affect production?
increase in production due to need of weapons and such war materials
During the 1920’s what particular product dropped a lot in price? Whose jobs would be in worst state?
prices in agricultural products; Farmers
What did Keynes think about the economy in comparison to previous terms of capitalism (laissez faire) where the government was not supposed to intervene & the economy took care of itself
Keynes thought that sometimes the government needs to step in to stimulate the economy by printing extra money & creating programs to give work to people.
Which president enlarged the government during the Great Depression?
Franklin D Rooosevelt
Saw development of authoritarian political systems like fascism, communism: what political ideology were these political ideologies against?
Liberal Democracy
What did Stalin do to change the economy in agriculture to change into a socialist economy to move away from capitalism? what did he do to farms?
Collectivized the farm (put all farm land together do there is no private product you are making)
What else did stalin use to keep his people in line?
Terror and Fear (sent the people to Gulags)
In order to build up their infrastructure and increase industrial capacity what did the soviets do (method used) in the 1920s - 1930s
They used a Five Year Plan
How did Mussolini gain control of power of govt?
He said he was going to march on Rome, so the king got scared and appointed him prime minister.
How is naziism different from other extreme authoritarian types of government? What did they focus on that other countries in particular didnt care about? (Japan, Italy, Spain)?
That their rac is superior, in opposition to the jews- antisemetism
Why did Japan turn away from democracy and towards authoritarian type of rule?
Wanted to be self-sufficient because the great depression had a big impact on them
After WW1 what role did Africans have in ruling their colonies?
None; They let the government know how they felt through protest.
Who was the person who really strengthened the Indian National Congress into a movement for anti-colonialism
Ghandi
Turkey is a successor state of which empire?
Ottoman
What did Mustafa (ataturk) Also do to create a western style state?
-People had last name
- changed the alphabet
- cultural stuff (theatres)
RELIGION WAS NOOOTTTT EMPHASIZED –> became secularized; got rid of any islam in their religion.
Causes of WW2
Militarism Alliances Nationalism Imperialism Appeasement Fascism
what especially happened at the end of WW1 that made WW2 happen? (represent militarism and appeasement)
harsh treaties (especially on germany)
Who was killed in the holocaust?
Jews; anyone non commuist
Who were the axis powers in WW2
Japan, Italy, Germany
If you were to consider 1945 as a turning point in military history what would be your evidence?
Nuclear war; Nuclear bomb.
What was the point of the Marshall plan?
To use capitalism And cooperation in Western Europe; fund money into Western Europe to make capitalism be part of containment
How did the Soviet Union respond when NATO was created?
With the Warsaw Pact, NATO created as a cooperation organization because there was tension and issues which made the Cold War
Producing more powerful weapons made it less likely that they would be used because…..?
Mutually assured destruction (MAD) _ if either side actually used them! they could destroy the world
Where did the Cold War confrontations take place?
Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, Guatemala
what was Mao’s base of support in population?
Peasant Farmers
Like the Mexican revolution and Zapatistas, what did the people of china like Mao and communist china also want?
Land
What happened during decolonization, the ways, how did they gain their independence ?
Sometimes negotiated transition to independence, other places violence-guerrilla warfare, with ethnic tensions. Tension led to civil war
Where there are examples where a colony was just given to another country?
No
What was the basis of the partition for India ?
Since both Hindus and Muslims lived within India, portioned for Pakistan for the Muslims, religion.
In 1947 what former British colony was also partitioned?
The state of Israel in Pakistan
General Nassar took over the Suez Canal because he needed money for the dam he was building in Egypt which caused the people to _____?
Be inspired towards nationalism
What did the following rulers have in common?
Hochi Min (Vietnam)
Kenyade ( Kenya)
En cruma (Ghana) ?
Nationalist leaders fighting against colonialism
Apartheid
Mixing was forbidden, did not have civil rights and were not allowed to protest.
How did decolonizing go for those colonies in Africa that had a lot of white settlers?
Whites feared of nationalists taking power so they gave them less rights, and when becoming decolonized, process was often violent.
What policy do we see in American actions in Vietnam?
Containment
in what circumstances did the Cold War become hot?
In the proxy wars: Korea and Vietnam; war that symbolizes the Cold War.
In the 60s what did Mao do to reinvigorate his people?
Cultural revolution
Us role in Latin America—-> neocolonialism going on
Money going into LA, military intervention if didn’t do what US said, they did not accept that Latin Americans can choose their own government
What is yanky imperialism
Another word for neocolonialism
If you wanted to study neocolonialism in LA what US policy would you want to study?
Monroe doctrine
What was the failed attempt by CIA to invade Cuba?
Bay of pigs invasion
