Wars & Rebellions Flashcards
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Opium wars
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- Lasted from 1839-1842
- fought between the British and the Qing china to protect British trade in Opium
- resulted in the ceding of Hong King to Britain
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Boston Massacre
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- march 5, 1770
- British army soldiers milled five males and injured six others
- American colonists protestors called “patriots” protested the occupation of their city by British troops
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Battle of the pyramids
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- July 21,1798 dying French invasion of Egypt
- Napoleon Bonaparte vs Ottoman Empire and MAMLUKS leaders
- French victory wiped out almost the entire Egyptian Army
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Shay’s Rebellion
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- armed uprising in Massachusetts during 18 century
- Daniel shays led 4000 revels in an uprising against economy injustices for farmers
- state and local enforcement of tax collections
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Haiti Revolution
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- from 1791-1804
- slaves and people of color rose up against white planters
- 10,000 British soldiers died
- revolutions like this fuels the abolitionist movement
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Women march in Versailles
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- October 4th 1789
- crowd of women demanding bread for their families gather other civilians and marched toward Versailles
- the king agree to meet with some & promises to distribute all the bread to the crowd
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American Revolutionary War
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- 1776-1783
- war between 13 colonies and Great Britain
- Americans won independence in 1781 although the fighting lasted until 1783
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Caste war
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- Mexico
- revolt of native maya people of Yucatán against the European descended population, Yucatecos
- yucatecos had political and economic control of the region
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Great Rebellion
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- Indian Rebellion of 1857
- against the rule of the British east India company
- Britain had forced new laws, new technology and Christianity on them with violence.
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Taiping Rebellion
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- cause by discontent with the corrupt Qing Dynasty
- lasted for 14 years
- rebels capture nanjing in 1853 and made it their capital
- led by Hung Hsiu Chuan
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White lotus Rebellion
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- series of uprisings in China from 1790s-1800s
- inspired by mystical beliefs in folk Buddhism
- appealed to women and the poor who were against the Qing dynasty
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The French Revolution
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- war between France and Great Britain
- was influenced by Enlightenment ideals
- like popular sovereignty & inalienable rights
- occurred after French king Louis XVI was executed in 1793
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Wahhabi Rebellion
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- Arabian peninsula
- Ottoman Empire and the first Saudi Stare, Emirare of Diriyah
- alliance formed between Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab & Muhammad bin Saud
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Maji Maji Revolt
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- most significant African rebellion against German colonial rule
- When Germany established its control over Tanganyika by 1898, it imposed a particularly violent regime in order to control the population, including a policy of killing kings who resisted German occupation
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Herero Revolt
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- African territory was claimed and occupied by Germany
- oppressive and the indigenous cultures were gradually being destroyed.
- A rebellion by Herero people in Namibia broke out in January 1904 and continued until 31 March 1907.
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South African war
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- Boer War
- independence, war fought from Oct. 11, 1899, to May 31, 1902
- between Great Britain and the two Boer (Afrikaner) republics—the South African Republic (Transvaal) and the Orange Free State—resulting in British victory
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Chinese republican revolution
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- In October of 1911
- revolutionaries in southern China led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty
- establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system.
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Crimean war
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- A major European conflict of the 19th century
- an alliance led by Britain and France challenge Russian expansion
- In short, Russia was expanding into the Danube region – Romania today. This was under Turkish control. Therefore, Turkey and Russia went to war in 1853, and the following year Britain and France – fearful of Russian expansion – became involved
- cause great reforms by Tsar in Russia
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Civil war
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- War between the north and confederate states in south
- most costliest war fought in America
- southern states lost
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Franco-Prussian war
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- War of 1870,
- conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon III and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.
- resulted in the creation of a unified Germany.
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Spanish - American war
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- fought between Spain and the United States in 1898.
- ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas
- U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin Americ
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Russo -Japanese war
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- fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival of royal ambitions
- Manchuria and Korea.
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Mexican Revolution
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- began in 1910,
- ended dictatorship in Mexico and established a constitutional republic.
- Though a constitution drafted in 1917 formalized many of the reforms sought by rebel groups, periodic violence continued into the 1930s.
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Boxer Uprising
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- violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising
- that took place in China between 1899 and 1901,
- towards the end of the Qing dynasty.
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Sino-Japanese war
- conflict between Japan and China
- marked Japan as a major world power and demonstrated the weakness of the Chinese empire.
- the two countries wanted supremacy in Korea.
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Battle of Adwa
- March 1896
- between the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy
- near the town of Adwa, Ethiopia, in Tigra
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World war 1
- Central Powers—mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey—against the Allies—mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States.
- It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war was virtually unprecedented in the slaughter, carnage, and destruction it caused.
