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APWH Key Concepts Buzzword Review - Period #6

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Causes of WWI
M.A.I.N. ( Militarism, Alliance, Imperialism, Nationalism)/ Immediate = Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
WWI Changes Warfare
Trench Warfare/Poison Gas/Machine Guns/Submarines/Airplanes/Tanks/ Total War/ Global War
U.S. Entrance into WWI
1. Unrestricted submarine warfare - sinking of the Lusitania 2. Zimmermann Telegram - Germany asking Mexico to attack the USA
Causes of the Russian Revolution
WWI - govt. mismanagement causing food & fuel shortages & high deaths / Defeat in Russo-Japanese War / Nicholas II ignoring problems
Bolsheviks
Radical Socialist Party/ seized control of Russia in Nov. 1917/ Lenin/ Communist state
Pandemic Diseases
Disease prevalent over a large area/ 1918 Influenza - caused by soldiers brining it home from WWI / Ebola/ HIV&AIDS
Treaty of Versailles
Peace v. Punishment/ Wilson's 14 pt. plan = rejected/ 14th pt. included = League of Nations/ German severely punished/ Japan & USSR ignored/ Italy = bitter
Mandate System
Former parts of Central Powers - not given self-rule/ British mandates = Iraq, Palestine & Transjordan/ French mandates = Syria & Palestine
Balfour Declaration
British Government/ Palestine should become permanent home to Jews/ Zionists approved
Mexican Revolution
Caudillos = dictators / 1910-1930/ Constitution 1917/ Dias v. Maduro - Diaz loses 1911/ Zapata - focus on injustices of peasants - land reform/ Cardenas - land reform - nationalized oil (1930's)
Chinese Revolution
1911-1949 no stable govt. / Communist(Mao Zedong) v. Nationalists (Chiang Kai Shek)/ Communist won!/ Nationalism (Kuomintang) = exiled to Taiwan
2 State-Solution
After Indian Independence/ India = Hindu/ Pakistan = Muslim Later Pakistan split again - Bangladesh
Negritude Movement
French West Africa/ emphasized pride in "blackness" and rejection of French colonial rule
Neocolonialism
Actions by a country to indirectly control another/ U.S. in Latin America from 1823 - 1933
Good Neighbor Policy
1933/ FDR - renounced any US armed intervention in S. America/ Cold War - we intervene in proxy wars by supplying money & weapons
Causes of WWII
F.A.I.L. - Failure of Treaty of Versailles, Aggression & Appeasement, Isolationism of the USA & League of Nations has no power
Axis Power Invasions
Germany - Sudetenland, Austria, & Czechoslovakia
Italy - Ethiopia & Albania
Japan - Korea, Manchuria, N. Chinese Cities (Nanjing/Beijing)
Rape of Nanjing
Nanjing Massacre
1937 / 6-week campaign by the Japanese army in which they killed or raped many in Nanjing China
Dresden
1945/ German City/ American military firebombed the city/ Killed 25,000
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
August 6 & 9, 1945/ Atomic Bombs/ Killed 70,000+ in each city/ ends WW2
Cold War
Result of WW2/Nato v. Warsaw Pact/ Arms Race/ Space Race/ Truman Policy - Containment - Domino Theory/ Korean War/ Vietnam War
Great Leap Forward
China/ Mao Zedong/ Land reform - established communes/ Copy Stalin/ Failure = famine & starvation
Cultural Revolution
China/ Mao Zedong/ Lead China into communist future/ used force to put down any resistance
Deng Xiaoping
Chinese leader after death of Mao Zedong/ Land reform = peasants can lease plots of land (capitalism)/ Success = surplus/ foreign investment
Tiananmen Square
Beijing/ student-led protest - put down by the Chinese govt. w/ tanks and guns/ Killed 100's
Korean War
Democratic South v. Communist North/ 38th Parallel/ ends in stalemate/ still divided today/ 4 million casualties
Vietnam War
Democratic South v. Communist North/ 17th Parallel/ Guerilla Warfare/ 1-2 million dead/ USA & National Forces lost/ Vietnam = single communist country today
Ho Chi Minh
Communist leader of Vietnam during the war.
IRA
Irish Republican Army/ Catholic Terrorist Group/ Wanted to leave UK and join the Republic of Ireland/ 1969-1994
Gorbachev
Last leader of the USSR/ Progressive programs = Perestroika (economic restructuring) Glasnost (openness)/ 1991 USSR ends
Nasser
Egypt/ Established a republic in 1952/ Took control of Suez Canal in 1956/ Promoted pan-Arabism - cultural/political unity of Arab countries
Independence in Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah/ 1957/ Became a dictator in 1964/ Pan-Africanism - celebration of culture and ideas of Africa
Independence in Algeria
French colony/ Violent/ 1965 FLN (National Liberation Front) - took control as a dictatorship
Independence in Kenya
British colony/ Mau Mau = terrorist group/ 1963 gain independence/ Jomo Kenyatta - rules as dictator until 1978
Trade Agreements
NAFTA/ Mercosur/ ASEAN/ GATT
World Trade Agreement (WTO)
Made rules that govern 90% of International Trade
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International organization to promote standard global financial relations
Bollywood
Name for the film industry in Bombay India Americanization
Apartheid
System of separation of whites and blacks put in place in S. Africa in 1948/ whites = 15% of pop/ Similar to US "Jim Crow" Laws
Nelson Mandela
Leader of the African National Congress/ Imprisoned for life in 1964/ Became 1st black president of S.Africa in 1994
United Nations
International peace keeping organization/ established after WWII/ replaced the League of Nations
Green Revolution
Emerged as a response to long-term hunger/ Scientists develop better yield crops using cross breading and genetic engineering
Greenpeace
Organization to advocate for the environment in 40 countries/ working to stop deforestation, desertification, global warming, & whale hunting
Diseases caused by Poverty
Malaria, TB, & Cholera = many can't afford simple prevention methods
Diseases caused by Lifestyle
Diabetes, Heart Disease, & Alzheimer's
Margaret Thatcher
British Prime Minister/ 1980's/ Ronal Regan/ Iron Lady
Quebecois
French Canadians who want to establish an independent country in Quebec
Liberation Theology
Christian theology that emphasizes concern for the liberation of the oppressed/ Latin American Catholics
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