AP World History 1750-1914
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 industrialization | The growing or birth of production |
| Monroe Doctrine | The proclamation that prevented European nations from colonizing in the Americas |
| Opium War | The war that led Western imperialism in China |
| Social Darwinism | The belief that one achieves more than others by genetic or biological superiority |
| nationalism | Devotion to the culture of a nation |
| Factory system | A method of manufacturing adopted in England during the Industrial Revolution. |
| Meiji Restoration | A change in political control of Japan whereby the emperor regained his political power. |
| pogroms | Meaning "wreaking of havoc" in Russian, this was a massive violent attack on a particular ethnic or religious group with simultaneous destruction of their environment. |
| Congress of Vienna | European meeting after Napoleon's defeat to try and restore political stability and settle diplomatic disputes |
| zaibatsu | Huge industrial combines created in Japan in the 1890s as part of the process of industrialization |
| radical | A person who believe in the democratic movement that called for liberalism and extended personal rights and freedoms |
| Toussaint L'Ouverture | a leader of the Haitian revolt against France |
| caudillos | military juntas or governments |
| Miguel Hidalgo | Creole priest in Mexico who led rebellion against Spain |
| Sino-Japanese War | war fought between China and Japan over Korea from 1894 to 1895 |
| Simon Bolivar | Creole military leader who fought for Colombian independence between 1817 and 1822 |
| Duma | Something like parliament but has no real power, every time they tried to make change, czar disbanded them. |
| Creoles | People of Iberian Peninsular descent who were born in Latin America |
| Liberal | A person willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own.. |
| Conservative | A person not changing or innovating, holding on to traditional values. |
| Crimean War | a war between Russia and a group of nations including England, France, Turkey and Sardinia from1853 to1856 |
| Tokugawa Shogunate | Family of warlords who seized control of Japan in 1600s. |
| Diet | Parliamentary legislative body that had no real power in Japan. |
| Socialism | Idea that economic competition is inherently unfair and leads to injustice/inequality |
| Communism | A forced idea of socialism that is ideally perfect with regards to justice and social equality |
| Romanticism | Most important - emotion/passion, more self expression, Self-realization of the individual, heroism, love of the natural world |
| Taping Rebellion | Rebellion initiated by Hong Xiuquan to overthrow the Manchurians and establish the kingdom of Heaven in China.. |
| Boxer Rebellion | Violent movement against non-Chinese commercial, political, religious and technological influence in China during the final years of the 19th century. |
| Boer War | The name given to the South African Wars of 1880-1 and 1899-1902, that were fought between the British and the descendants of the Dutch settlers (Boers) in Africa. |
| Suez Canal | a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea |
| Socialist Revolution | A proletarian revolt inspired by the ideas of Karl Marx |
| Proto-industrialization | Preliminary shift away from an agricultural economy |
| Feminist Movement | Sought legal and democratic gains for women such as equal access to education, right to vote, professions in workplace |
| Triple Alliance | Alliance between Germany, Austri-Hungary and Italy at end of 19th century |
| Triple Entente | Agreement between Britain, Russia, and France in 1907 |
| partition | a division of property among joint owners or tenants in common or a sale of such property followed by a division of the proceeds |
| Benito Juarez | Indian lawyer and politician who led a liberal revolution against Santa Ana |
| Profirio Diaz | A general in Juarez' army who was elected as president of Mixico and ruled for 35 years |
| tropical dependencies | Western European possessions in Africa, Asia, and South Pacific where small number of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations |
| gunboat diplomacy | diplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force |
| Modernization Theory | summarize modern transformations of social life |
| Ottoman Society for Union and Progress | a secret circle of liberal-minded students in the imperial military medical school in Constantinople (now Istanbul) who aspired to overthrow the autocratic regime of Sultan Abdülhamit II. |
| Holy Alliance | Alliance between Russia, Prussia and Austria to defend the established order. |
| Anarchists | Political group that sought the absolution of formal government as a way of creating a better society. |
| Bolsheviks | Most radical group of the Russian Marxists movement |
| democracy | A form of government that represents the people |
| Intelligentisia | Russian term for articulate intellectuals as a class |
| Trans-Siberian Railroad | Connected European Russia with the Pacific Ocean |
| radicalism | democratic movement that called for liberalism and extended rights |
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