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Who: British Government
What: Law passed to extend "emergency measure" authorized the government to imprison for a maxium period of two years, without trial anyperson suspected of terrorism living in the Raj
Where: India
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Who: 50 British Indian Army Soldiers, Commanded by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer
What: Began shooting at an unarmed gathering of men,women, and children without warning.Dyer marched his 50 riflemen to a raised bank and ordered them to kneel and fire
Where Armitsar
When: April 13, 1919 |
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Who:Emir of Mecca
What: Launched the Great Arab Revolt in June 1916 against the Ottoman army. To establish a single independent and unified Arab state stretching from Aleppo (Syria) to Aden (Yemen)
Where: Jordan, Arabian Pennisula, Syria
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Who:British an French, Allied Powers
What: Secret agreement reached after World War I between the British and French government pertaning to the partition of the ottoman Empire among the Allied Powers
Where:Ottoman Empire
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What:Father of modern political Zionism
Where:Europe
When:1860-1904
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Who: Arthur Balfour
What: A letter by Arthur James Lord Balfour to Lord Rothschild. The letter represents the first polictical recognition of Zionist aims by a great power
Where: Palestine
When:1917 |
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Who:President Mustafa Kemal
What:"Father of the Turks imposed revolutionary change aimed at modernizing and westernixing Turkish sciety and the new Turkish Government
Where:Turkish Society
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Who:Politician,Journalist, and activist, for the unification of Italy
What: One of the patron saints of the "Risorgimento" a politcal and social movement that unified italy
Where: Across the Italian peninsula
When:1805-1872
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Who:Russia and the Triple Alliance (Germ,Aus-Hung,Otto
What:Marked Russia's exit from WWI
Where: Signed at Brest-Litovsk
When: March 3 1918
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Who:Vladimir Lenin
What: A document that propsoed changes to the structure of the soviet governing bodies. Suggested Joseph Stalin be removed from his postion as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist
Where: Russia
When: 1900's
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Who:Charles Darwin
What: Scientific literature that is considered the foundation of evolutionary biology. That Populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection
Where:Published in London
When: November 24,1859
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Who: Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav nationalist
What: Assassinated the archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, eventually would lead to WWI
Where: Sarajevo, Bosnia When: 1894-1918, 1914
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Who: Prince Klemens von Metternich, German-Austrian politician and statesman
What: He was a major figure in the negotiations before and during the Congress of Vienna and is considered both a paragon of foreign-policy management and a major figure in the development of diplomatic praxis.
Where: Austria
When: 1773-1859
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Who: Citizens
What: secret groups of revolutionary societies in order to unify Italy and defend rights of people against all forms of Absolutism.
Where: Italy, Papal States, France
When: Early 1800’s
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Who: Austria, Prussia, United Kingdom, Russian Empire, France
What: Balance of power that existed in Europe
Where: Europe
When: 1815-1914
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Who: Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
What: Provides a political manuscript for the Communist party that laid out purpose, and theories about nature of society and politics
Where: London
When: 1848
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What: An industry primarily manufacturing which includes many producers, working from their homes, typically, part time. The term orginaly referre to home worked who were engaged in a task such as sewing, lace-making or house hold manufacturing
Where: Europe
When: 17th &18th Century
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Who: James Hargreaves
What: Multi-spool spinning frame that reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn, with a worker able to work eight or more spools at once. This grew to 120 as technology advanced.
Where: England
When: 1764
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Who: Woodrow Wilson
What: Speech intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe.
Where: Congress
When: 1914
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Who: members of the Ottoman society who were progressive, modernist and opposed to the status quo
What: established the second constitutional era in 1908 with what would become known as the Young Turk Revolution
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Who: Sun Yat-sen
What: Political philosophy to make China a more free, prosperous, and powerful nation.
Where: China
When: Early 1900’s
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Who: Chinese Scholars
What: classical education began to lead a revolt against Confucian culture. They called for the creation of a new Chinese culture based on global and western standards, especially democracy and science. Younger followers took up their call for women’s liberation, end of patriarchal family,
Where: China, Beijing University
When: 1910-1920’s
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Who: Political and military leader of 20th century China, member of Nationalist party, ally of Sun Yat-sen,
What: Served as an important member in the Nationalist Government of China, President of the Republic of China, and Premier of the Republic of China, as well as the Director General of the Kuomintang.
Where: China
When: 1920-1975
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Who: Nazi Party
What: Failed attempt to seize power in Munich, Bavaria, and Germany.
o Where: Germany
When: November 8-9, 1923
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Who: German and British Air Forces
What: Name given to the WWII air campaign waged by German Air Force to gain superiority over the Royal Air Force. First campaign fought entirely by air forces, also largest and most sustained aerial bombing campaign to that date.
Where: United Kingdom Airspace
When: 1940
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What: In this area over 300,000 Jews were transported to concentration camps, and during WWI they experienced much higher casualty rates,
Where: Regions west of Czechoslovakia
When: Early 20th Century, WWI
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Who: German army forces
What: Tactical and operational methodology in the first half of WWII that was said to be the “new method of warefare”. The word means “lightning war” associated with quick decisive short battles to deliver knockout blow to enemy state before they could fully mobilize.
Where: Germany, Poland, France, Soviet Union.
When: WWII
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Who: French general and statesman
What: Led the Free French Forces, founded the French Fifth Republic and served as first President. WWI veteran, urged people to resist Nazi Germany.
Where: France
When: WWII
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Who: Japanese
What: Second city to experience a nuclear attack. U.S drops bomb because it served as a port for military importance, had a large population, japan refused to surrender.
Where: Japan
When: August 9, 1945
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Who: A conference between U.S, U.K, and Soviet Union. Roosevelt, Churchill, Stahlin.
What: to discuss Europe’s post war reorganization. Intended to discuss the re-establishment of war-torn Europe.
Where: City in Ukraine
When: February 4-11th, 1945
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Who: Infantry Men
What: Describes the process where infantrymen emerged from the trenches and scrambled into “No man’s Land” to attack the opposing enemy trenches. Because of the dominance of machine gun’s during the war, this method could be considered suicide.
Where: Trench battle of WWI
When: WWI
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Who: German, British soldiers
What: rise of non-aggressive behavior that developed after the Christmas Truce, where smaller groups of soldiers would restrain from using violence against enemy forces if the favor was reciprocated.
Where: Trench warfare on western front
When: WWI
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Who: Commodore of the U.S Navy
What: Opened Japan to the west with the convention of Kanagawa
Where: Japan
When: 1854
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Who:White Europeans
When: Social Darwinism
Sig: The white europeans felt it was their job to "cleanse" the rest of the world or people they conquered because they felt they were superior to them. Fueled racist ideologies. |
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