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western studies 2
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Undergraduate 1
05/05/2008

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Industrial revoulition or evolution

Definition
- revolution is fast and evolution is slow, some things happened in 7 years
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Treaty of kanagawa-

Definition
between Admiral Perry and Japan, protects ship wrecked sailors (take them onto your ship), sell them food, don’t kill them- done to try to set up trade
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Sepoy mutiny-

Definition
 India- British soldiers in India were forcing Indian people to use grease made from pigs and cows (sacred to them) against their cutlure
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OPEC-

Definition
oil producing and exporting countries – set price by production level
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Factory system (conditions)-     

Definition

     + - goods cheaper, wide variety of jobs

  -low wadges, child/female labor, disease

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Unrestricted submarine warfare-

Definition
Germany will sink any ship, anywhere with no warning (breaking the Sussex pledge)
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Schlieffen plan and Belgium-

Definition

 

revolving door, came up with plan in 1870 (outdated when it was used), used again in 1991 by Schwartzkopff going into Kuait

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Buffer (satellite) states

Definition
 -Russia-countries around Russia that Eastern Europe would have to get through before attacking
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League of nations-

United Nations-

Definition

- after WWI, no US

 

- WWII, US involved

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Atom bomb/Nagasaki/Hiroshima

Definition
- Hiroshima 1st, Nagasaki 2nd, couldn’t find the right city so they hit Nagasaki
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Miasmatic theory-

Definition
 you’re going to get sick from breathing the air of a sick person
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Malthus-

Definition
production of food won’t keep up with population (wrong)
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Open door policy-

Definition
US wanted this with China, none came
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Midway/coral sea-

Definition
Japan loses it in WWII, after this they cannot win
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Great pacific war/ great patriotic war-

Definition
what japan/ Russia called WWII
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“arsenal of democracy”-

Definition
Wilson
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Russian revolutions of  1905 and 1917-18

Definition

 1905- Russia lost to Japan in war

1917-18- overthrew the czar

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Goebbels-

Definition
propaganda for Hitler
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Lateran Agreement-

Definition
between Mussolini and the pope, pope comes out of Vatican and says they’re fine
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Poland –

Definition
 first to be hit in WWII
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Alliance for progress-

Definition
JFK & move forward
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Cavoru-

Definition
brains (Italian)
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Verdi-

Definition
music
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Risorgimento-

Definition
 reunification of Italy
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Reasons for us entry into WWI-

Definition
unrestricted submarine warfare, loss of life, England possibly falling to Germany (no step off point for attack), protect investments, idealistic, balance of power is off (bc Russia dropped out)
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Atlantic Charter- who and what

Definition
Roosevelt & Churchill- before we entered WWII, their decisions about how the war would be fought if we did enter
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aspects of total war (3, WWI)   

Definition

  -economic regimentation

-Thought control (propaganda)

-political centralization

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Franz Ferdinand/ assassignated by ??

Definition
 Princip- Ferdnand was prime minister of Austria-Hungary, assassinated by Princip caused WWI 
Term

Purges-

Pogroms-

Definition

get rid of people

 

get rid of an entire town

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Détente-

Definition
 agree to disagree
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Hitler first policy-

Definition
 the US needs to take down Hitler first because if he gets to England well have a farther starting point to attack
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Iron Curtian-

Definition
stop communication between satellite Russia and Western Russia
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Common Market-

Definition
grew out of NATO
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Lebenstraum

Definition
- living space
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Textile industry

Definition
- French mercantilism
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Treaty of Versailles-

Definition
 seas Poland, League of Nations, 231
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Truman-

Definition
end of war
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Franco-Prussian War-

Definition
France and Prussia, helped unify Germany
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Imperialism-

Definition
colonies for the benefit of another colony
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Ricardo-

Definition
 workers will never be satisfied, the more you give them the more they will buy
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Boxer Rebellion-

Definition
 China, want white devil gone bc we exploit workers
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Peaceful coexistence-

Definition
detante, live with each other
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Nicholas II-

Definition
 last Romanov czar
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Cuban Missile crisis-

Definition
JFK, after WWII, demanded Cuba get rid of missiles, they did (maybe)
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Truman doctrine-

Definition
stop communism where it is, contain it, save Turkey and Greece
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Zimmerman Note- 

Definition
Germany and Mexico- WWI, give back land (Germany ->Mexico) when they defeat the US
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Perry-

Definition
 open Japan,
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Khurshchev-

Definition
wanted to keep Russia in a constant, permanent state of rebellion
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Leapfrogging/ island hopping-

Definition
used this to fight Japan in WWII b/c we didn’t have enough people to invade every island, you skip from island to island randomly conquering them, this forces the other islands to be cut off from food/supplies
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Sudetenland-

Definition
in Czech, Hitler wanted it back, but he kept asking for more and more
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Results of WWI-

Definition
 low living standard, commerce and trade, no jobs, people unhappy with treaty of Versailles
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“temporary disobedience”-

Definition
 when people killed others for the emperor, it was ok because he told them to do so (he then sentenced them to death- they sent their fingers-he took it back)
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NEP-

Definition
new economic policy
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Phoney war-

Definition
 between blitzkrieg and city, gave Germany time to regroup
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Mein Kampf-

Definition
book written by Hitler while in prison
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The Great Illusion-

Definition
 Angel- believed that the balance of power meant there would be no war
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Point 14-

Definition
created the league of nations
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Article 231-

Definition
war guilt for Germany
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Mussolini-

F D Roosevelt-

Definition

 Italy in WWII

 

US in WWII

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Lusitania-

Definition
went down w/ US people, british ship, example of unrestricted submarine warfare
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Napoleon III-

Definition
 lost Franco Prussian War
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Paris Improvements-

Definition
Napoleon III- wanted to leave a legacy, built opera, housing, modernizing
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Big 5/4/3-

Definition
treaty of Versailles talks
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Pips-

Definition
Lloyd George- squeeze Germany like an orange until the seeds (pips) squeak
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Hirohito-

Definition
Japanese emperor, WWII
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Yugoslavia-

Definition
 had a war sparked by the ideas of Tito
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Tito-

Definition
Yugoslavian freedom fighter
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Russo-Japanese War-

Definition
Russia lost Japan won
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Gentlemen’s agreement-

Definition
Japan and US, no immigration between the countries
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Warsaw pact

Definition
- opposite of NATO, communist
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Cold war-

Definition
war of words (scare other countries w/ threats etc)
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Spheres of influence-

Definition
China
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Nuremberg laws-

Definition
laws against Jews
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Von Richtofen-

Von Luckner-

Definition

 air ace

 

 naval ace

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Scallions-

Definition
 Japanese theory that the US couldn’t bomb their house if they had scallions or a gold fish (real or ceramic)
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Sussex Pledge-

Definition
no unrestricted sub warfare (Germany broke it)
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Perestroika/glasnost-
Definition
restructured Russia after WWII
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Terrorist weapons-
Definition
posion, hand held rockets, briefcase bombs, human bombs, electromagnetic pulse (destroys electronics)
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Bay of Pigs invasion-
Definition
US & Cuban freedom fighters, getting them back into Cuba
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Marshall plan-
Definition
devide up US $ and gives it to countries in Europe to stop the growth of communists
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