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World History II - Test #2
Imperialism - WWI
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Undergraduate 2
03/08/2011

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Causes for Imperialism
Definition
raw materials, markets, national pride (if Brits have it, French have to have it), balance of power, civilizing mission (belief that they (Europeans) are at the forefront of history; they have a duty to lift up less fortunate nations)
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British Contributions to India
Definition
education; national police force; industrialization of India; structured government
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Boer Wars
Definition
Won by Brits against the Dutch settlers in South Africa; gives the reform movement a real kick because many soldiers drafted for it were poor and malnourished; horrible living conditions of Britain’s lower class
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Berlin Conference
Definition
Bismarck; brought together the European leaders; issue at stake: Africa; who runs what in Africa without war; divides up Africa between the European nations
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Meji Restoration
Definition
Japan; brought back the emperor and ended the shogunate
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Russo-Japanese War
Definition
Between Russia and Japan; led to the emergence of Japan as a world power; Roosevelt organizes peace treaty between two nations (Treaty of Portsmouth) after Japan wins
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Opium Wars
Definition
China and Britain; British want Chinese to keep buying their opium
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Boxer Rebellion
Definition
China; Chinese rebelling against foreigners; expelling foreign interests from outside influences; push for Chinese nationalism; if Brits have base in Hong Kong, government should get something for it
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Sun Yat-Sen
Definition
Chinese doctor; took over China after the fall of the Manchu’s; founded Chinese Republic
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Spanish American War
Definition
Spain and US; US gains an empire in the Philippines
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Queen Victoria
Definition
familiar with how long she was there; spans most of the 19th century
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Prince Albert
Definition
leads Great Exposition of 1851; married to Victoria
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Great Exposition of 1851
Definition
Brits get together and show how great they were
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Fabianism
Definition
the socialist elite who were socialist because they cared for the people; labour party
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British Imperial Debate
Definition
Gladstone and Disraeli; the debate over how to handle the transformation of India
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William Gladstone
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Liberal; make them act like us, but then get out and let them have there own country; optimistic
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Conservative PM; says “we need to turn them into Britain’s” talking about Indians; paternalist
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Labour Party
Definition
– Britain (Socialist movement); combines two social movements; represent the socialist working class; run by the intellectuals that are socialists because they care about the people
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Napoleon III
Definition
Governs France; domestically – public works and public reforms; monarch, rules by decree, but accepts limits; industrializes France; modernizer; loses to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War
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Dreyfuss Affair
Definition
in France; embodies European anti-Semitism; blame the Jews for whatever goes wrong; Jewish captain is accused of passing on secrets to the Germans; no evidence proving his innocence; represents the Semitic mentality of the European nations
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Alexander II
Definition
Russian; ends feudalism in Russia; frees the serfs; reform minded
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Intelligentsia
Definition
found in Russia; educated people; reform minded (changing culture, government, etc.)
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Alexander III
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Russian; not reform minded; power comes from the center; urged Russians to act more Russian
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Nicholas II
Definition
Governed Russia during WWI; last czar of Russia; very modest man of modest abilities thrust into leadership at the wrong time
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Social Democrats
Definition
Father party of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
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Bolsheviks
Definition
Russian; follow Lenin; lead by Lenin and his cohorts; small group of people revolutionizing
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Mensheviks
Definition
Russian; broad based revolution with everyone playing a part in revolution
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Socialist Revolutionaries
Definition
– Lenin’s major opponents; more popular than Lenin’s party; represent the peasants interest; preach revolution to the peasants
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1905 Revolution
Definition
Russia; dress rehearsal for Russian Revolt; protest in front of czar’s palace and people are killed; czar loses legitimacy
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Long Term Causes of WWI
Definition
Creation of Germany; decline of the Ottoman Empire (stronger Eastern Europe nationalism); alliance system posing groups of nations against each other; immediately cause by the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Triple Alliance
Definition
the alliance between Italy, Germany, and Austro-Hungary; created by Germany;
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Triple Entante
Definition
France, Russia, and Britain
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Schlieffen Plan
Definition
German; assumes two front war with France and Russia; assumes Russia will slowly mobilize; take out France first by going thru Belgium then address Russia
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Marshall Philippe Petain
Definition
French field general; shows the futile carnage of trench warfare in the Battle of Verdun; leads the French in defense of France in WWI
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Battle of Verdun
Definition
French offensive; More than 700,000 casualties in battle
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Paul Von Hindenburg
Definition
– leads German troops into Russia
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Battle of Gollipoli (1915)
Definition
British battle fought by Australians against the Ottomans; Ottomans win; Ottomans live to fight another day
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918)
Definition
ends hostilities between Russia and Germany in WWI; gets Russia out of the war and is able to focus on the revolutions within the country
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T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
Definition
Britain; worked with the Arab tribes rebelling against the Ottomans; went to stir up rebellion against the Turks so they wouldn’t be involved in WWI
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Balfour Memorandum
Definition
Britain; they will support Jewish settlements in Palestine
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Zimmerman Telegram
Definition
brought the US into the war; telegram to Mexico form Germany saying if they went to war with the US, they would return all their lost land
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Woodrow Wilson
Definition
US president during WWI; Fourteen Points – pertaining to the safety in of the world in the future; part of the Big Four
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Concerns of the “Big Four”
Definition
US, Britain, France, Italy; concerned about the end of WWI; make sure that Germany pays for the war; concerned about Soviets in Russia and the spread of communism; concerned about Japan’s rise in Asia; Easter European Nationalism
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Results of WWI
Definition
League of Nations formed; Germany bears the entire blame for the war; redrawing of Eastern Europe, new ethnic nation-states; US and Soviet Union emerge as world powers; beginning of European loss in power, beginning of European dependency on other, more powerful nations
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Mustafa Kemal “Ataturk”
Definition
Turkey; founds modern Turkey form the Ottoman Empire; makes them secular and westernizes them
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Significance of WWI
Definition
Germany blamed for war; many Eastern European founded new national countries influenced by nationalism; creation of the League of Nations; redrawing the European map
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Lena Goldfields Massacre
Definition
Russia; Russian mine workers stuck in Siberia, don’t get food, money, etc.; peaceful protest breaks out; government soldiers kill some workers; re-radicalizes the labour party movement; galvanizes public opinion against czar and the old order
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Alexander Kerensky
Definition
Russia; heads provisional government after czar is overthrown
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V.I. Lenin
Definition
– Russia; comes to power after the Revolutions; New Economic Policy
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Russian Civil War
Definition
begins at the end of WWI; Reds – Bolsheviks (primarily) hardcore socialist revolutionaries; Whites – Mensheviks, SRs, monarchists, anarchists (everyone who isn’t a Bolshevik or radical; Greens – everyone else (neutral); Reds win in the end
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Comintern
Definition
associated with Communists; the communist international; fear by westerners that Russia is using it to undermine their own government
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New Economic Policy
Definition
Lenin and Russia; war communism nationalized everything and set Russia back in economy by about 50 years; this was his attempt to fix what he destroyed; farmers benefited, encouraged entrepreneurship
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Joseph Stalin
Definition
Russia; rose to power after Lenin; brings Russia back to economic prominence;
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Five Year Plan
Definition
Russia; setting economic goals over the long term; wants people to rely soley on the state
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Weimar Republic
Definition
Germany; comes into existence between WWI and Hitler; governs Germany in this time; democratic, constitutional; gets blame for not fixing Germany’s economy
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Fascism
Definition
Hitler; authoritarian, Hegelian, and melenarian (achieved ultimate end to human development); believe in own nation-state first
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Benito Mussolini
Definition
Italy; fascist
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Nuremburg Laws 1935
Definition
Germany by Hitler; revoked all rights of Jews in Germany; led to emigration of Jews from Germany
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Reasons for Hitler’s Success
Definition
promised food and economic recovery to the lower class and delivered; ran a totalitarian state predicated on fear (SS); left the wealthy alone as long as they served the party’s interests
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Francisco Franco
Definition
France; fascist helped to power by Hitler
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Falangism
Definition
Francisco Franco; hardcore traditionalists devoted to the Catholic state; don’t have to prove to everyone that they are better
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