Term
| Boxer Rebellion (Sara and Justin) |
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Definition
-anti westerners
-destroyed western things in china
-killed missionaries and converts
-traditional+ nationalistic (and delusional)
-> defeated by alliance of westerners |
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Definition
-natoinalism in Austira-Hungary causes turmoil (Franz Ferdinand is killed)
-wars divide Europe and cause rivalry (Franco-Prussian war-> Alsace and Lorraine)
-fight for colonies (e.g. Africa and China)
-militarism [depending on military to solve problems] and arms race and balance of power
-allliances (triple allinace and triple entente) |
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| Philippeans (Nick and Isaac) |
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Definition
-Phillipeans -> trade
-Spanish-American war
-win and take over
-revoultion in Philippeans
-they get some rights but no independance |
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Term
| Russia/ Industrialization (Randi) |
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Definition
-urbanization
-bad jobs for bad pay and a lot of injury and death
-no workers benefits
-living conditions were very bad and couded with disease |
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Term
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Definition
-Trade before opium benefits China
-Britain trade opium and gets entire country addicted
-China's economy becomes very bad because the trade doesn't benefit them and they aren;t gaining anything
-> try to sto pthe import of opium
-> British attack China, they lose, and Britain invaids and China becomes a colony and overthrows the gov't |
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| Japanese Modernization (Michael) |
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Definition
-tokugawa Shogunate is a very traditional gov't with no world contact (isoltaionism)
-Matthew Perry comes to Japan and shows Japan how traditional and seceptable they are to foreign invasion
-Meiji restoration takes place and Japan completely modernizes
*American gov't system
*German army
*British navy
-Sino-Japanese war-> japan beats Cihna and gains Manchuria
-Russo-Japanese war-> Japan beats Russia and destroys an entire fleet
-> Europeans leave them alone because of thir new power |
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Term
| British imperialism in India (Ilana) |
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Definition
-East India Company trades with India
-Employs the Sepoys to protect them
-Sepoys can attack the Hindi
-EIC bans sati (widows burn themselves...)
-EIC abolishes the caste system
-Sepoy uprising (bulltes have pig fat on them etc.)
-EIC tells British, who come and colonize, help defeat the Sepoys and set up an indirect rule
-Queen -> Viceroy -> Indian governors
-make the people grow cotton instead of food -> great famine -> many ppl die of starvation
-> helps British economy to exploit the people |
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Term
| Greek Independance (Vasilis) |
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Definition
-Greek nationalism
-Ottomans try to turn the Greeks into Turks
*Religion
*Taxation
*Military drafts (conscription)
-> Greeks Rebel
-> Ottoman empire falls because of many revolts and "western" help |
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Term
| Simon Bolivar (Francesca) |
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Definition
-nationalism and independance and class-system (peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, etc)
*SB is a creole (Spanish born in SA)
-he wants independance from Spain (nationalism & power)
-gains independance, but ppl don;t like him because he is a creole
-doesn't help the mestizos
-becomes a dictator, with a string of dictators following him |
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Term
| Mexican Revolution (Claudia) |
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Definition
-NATIONALISM and INDEPENDANCE and CLASS SYSTEM
-Hidalgo and Morelos are mestizos who lead the first revolution
-creoles don't like the mestizos becoming powerful
-Iturbide is a creole who takes control of the entire class and then the country and becomes a dictator
-> get independance but gets a crazy dictator ruler who doesn't help the mestizos |
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