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What group started the Indian National Congress?

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Indian elites that were educated with European western methods

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Sun Yatsen led the _________ movement in China.

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Nationalist

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what is PanIslamism. name an example

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all muslim people come together to make one big Nation of Islam

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impacts of WW1

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  • 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)
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what happened to social hierarchies within european society

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women gained voting rights and higher status in many places after the war.

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what happened to global trade?

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It did NOT increase

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Rivalry between which two countries and in what way led to WW1

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Germany & Great Britain; naval races

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which two innovations in the western front made it a stalemate?

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poisonous gas, machine guns, barbed wire

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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?

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creation of League of Nations

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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.

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Bolsheviks revolution

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How did WW1 affect production?

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increase in production due to need of weapons and such war materials

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During the 1920’s what particular product dropped a lot in price? Whose jobs would be in worst state?

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prices in agricultural products; Farmers

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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

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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.

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Which president enlarged the government during the Great Depression?

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Franklin D Rooosevelt

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Saw development of authoritarian political systems like fascism, communism: what political ideology were these political ideologies against?

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Liberal Democracy

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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?

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Collectivized the farm (put all farm land together do there is no private product you are making)

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What else did stalin use to keep his people in line?

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Terror and Fear (sent the people to Gulags)

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In order to build up their infrastructure and increase industrial capacity what did the soviets do (method used) in the 1920s - 1930s

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They used a Five Year Plan

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How did Mussolini gain control of power of govt?

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He said he was going to march on Rome, so the king got scared and appointed him prime minister.

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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)?

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That their rac is superior, in opposition to the jews- antisemetism

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Why did Japan turn away from democracy and towards authoritarian type of rule?

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Wanted to be self-sufficient because the great depression had a big impact on them

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After WW1 what role did Africans have in ruling their colonies?

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None; They let the government know how they felt through protest.

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Who was the person who really strengthened the Indian National Congress into a movement for anti-colonialism

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Ghandi

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Turkey is a successor state of which empire?

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Ottoman

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What did Mustafa (ataturk) Also do to create a western style state?

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-People had last name
- changed the alphabet
- cultural stuff (theatres)
RELIGION WAS NOOOTTTT EMPHASIZED –> became secularized; got rid of any islam in their religion.

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Causes of WW2

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Militarism
Alliances
Nationalism
Imperialism
Appeasement
Fascism
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what especially happened at the end of WW1 that made WW2 happen? (represent militarism and appeasement)

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harsh treaties (especially on germany)

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Who was killed in the holocaust?

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Jews; anyone non commuist

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Who were the axis powers in WW2

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Japan, Italy, Germany

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If you were to consider 1945 as a turning point in military history what would be your evidence?

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Nuclear war; Nuclear bomb.

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What was the point of the Marshall plan?

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To use capitalism And cooperation in Western Europe; fund money into Western Europe to make capitalism be part of containment

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How did the Soviet Union respond when NATO was created?

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With the Warsaw Pact, NATO created as a cooperation organization because there was tension and issues which made the Cold War

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Producing more powerful weapons made it less likely that they would be used because…..?

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Mutually assured destruction (MAD) _ if either side actually used them! they could destroy the world

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Where did the Cold War confrontations take place?

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Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, Guatemala

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what was Mao’s base of support in population?

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Peasant Farmers

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Like the Mexican revolution and Zapatistas, what did the people of china like Mao and communist china also want?

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Land

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What happened during decolonization, the ways, how did they gain their independence ?

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Sometimes negotiated transition to independence, other places violence-guerrilla warfare, with ethnic tensions. Tension led to civil war

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Where there are examples where a colony was just given to another country?

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No

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What was the basis of the partition for India ?

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Since both Hindus and Muslims lived within India, portioned for Pakistan for the Muslims, religion.

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In 1947 what former British colony was also partitioned?

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The state of Israel in Pakistan

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General Nassar took over the Suez Canal because he needed money for the dam he was building in Egypt which caused the people to _____?

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Be inspired towards nationalism

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What did the following rulers have in common?
Hochi Min (Vietnam)
Kenyade ( Kenya)
En cruma (Ghana) ?

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Nationalist leaders fighting against colonialism

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Apartheid

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Mixing was forbidden, did not have civil rights and were not allowed to protest.

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How did decolonizing go for those colonies in Africa that had a lot of white settlers?

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Whites feared of nationalists taking power so they gave them less rights, and when becoming decolonized, process was often violent.

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What policy do we see in American actions in Vietnam?

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Containment

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in what circumstances did the Cold War become hot?

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In the proxy wars: Korea and Vietnam; war that symbolizes the Cold War.

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In the 60s what did Mao do to reinvigorate his people?

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Cultural revolution

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Us role in Latin America—-> neocolonialism going on

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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

48
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What is yanky imperialism

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Another word for neocolonialism

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If you wanted to study neocolonialism in LA what US policy would you want to study?

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Monroe doctrine

50
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What was the failed attempt by CIA to invade Cuba?

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Bay of pigs invasion

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