Unit 7: Global Conflict Flashcards
Shifting Power: Mexico
- Angered social classes
- civil war
- revolution completed
Shifting Power: Qing
- lost opium wars
- rebellions
- boer war
- Japan and Britan helped conflict, but demanded repayment
Shifting Power: Russian Empire
- Serfdom banned
- massacre of protestors
- middle class wanted a voice in gov decisions
Shifting Power: Ottoman Empire
- “sick man of Europe”
- political/liberal reform attempts didn’t work
- young turks envisioned ottomans as turks = aliented other minorities
Causes of WWI:
M: Militarism -
A: Alliance
I: Imperisalism
N: Nationalism -
Causes of WWI: Imperialism
Causes of WWI: Nationalism
Causes of WWI: Militarism
Causes of WWI: Alliances
Causes of WWI: Regional Conflicts: (Balakans)
Conducting WWI: Total War
Everyone supports the war in a certain country
Conducting WWI: Propoganda
Conducting WWI: Poision Gas
Conducting WWI: Tanks
Conducting WWI: Machine Guns
Interwar Economics: Stock Market Crash
Interwar Economics: Great Depression
Interwar Economics: New Deal
Interwar Economics: 5 Year Plans
Interwar Economics: Fascist corporate economy
Unresolved Tensions: League of Nations
Unresolved Tensions: Mandates
Unresolved Tensions: East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Unresolved Tensions: Indian National Congress
Causes of WWII: Fascism
Causes of WWII: Failures of the Treaty of Versailles
- Germany punished for WW1
- forced to pay reparmations
- Germany defensless
Causes of WWII: Great Depression
- Left many people unemployed and hungry
- The state of people made them vulnrable to choosing authoritarian leaders
Causes of WWII: Agressive militarism of Nazi Germany and Japan
- Germany took back land and more
- Japan expanded territory
- Other countries did not intervene for fear of another war
Conducting WWII: Total War
Conducting WWII: Propoganda
Conducting WWII: Fascists & Communists
Conducting WWII: Fire Bombing
Conducting WWII: Atomic Bombs
Mass Atrocities: Genocide
Mass Atrocities: Ethnic Cleansing
Mass Atrocities: Armenians
Mass Atrocities: Holodomor
Mass Atrocities: Holocaust
Mass Atrocities: Khmer Rouge
Mass Atrocities: Rwanda
- Hutus fought against tutsi
Main Characters: Franz Ferdinand
- Assasinated
- Balkan
- Archduke
Main Characters: Sun Yat-Sen
- Changed old china into modern day china republic
Main Characters: Vladamir Lenin
- Russian
- attempted to make policitcal poicies = didn’t work died with him
- Communist
- Revolutionist
Main Characters: Joseph Stalin
- Created 5-year plan
- Started genocide against farmers
Main Characters: Ataturk
- Father of all turks
Main Characters: Benito Mussolini
- Italian leader
- helped with some depression problems
Main Characters: Adolf Hilter
- Helped with some depression effects
- Gained back land and more
- eliminated “impure” races