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-By the late 19th century, Berlin realized the only piece of land left that they needed to grab was Africa.
-They didn't want to start anymore wars so they called a conference with countries to distribute parts of Africa.
-The countries that were present were Germany, Portugal, Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, USA and the Ottoman Empire
-Berlin and France got most of the land out of the conference
-Before the conference, 80% of Africa was still independent and by the end, Liberia and Ethiopia were the only countries left that were independent.
-Out of this conference, King Leopold got his own property and he ruled it as if it was only his and he ruled it terribly and was very corrupt. |
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-1 of the 3 main types of colonialism in Africa.
-It was a British system that was created by a man by the name of Lord Lugar.
-The Idea was that "We are going to try and work within existing structures and not completely change" |
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-1 of the 3 main types of colonialism in Africa.
-It was a system used by Portugal and Belgium.
-One of the best examples was Belgium Congo
-King Leopold was the biggest enforcer of this system.
-The idea was "We are just going to take what we can, as quickly as we can". |
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-A name that was given to the alliance that occurred between Great Britain, France and Russia after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907.
-The alliance of the three powers constituted a powerful counterweight to the triple alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy |
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-a form of occupied fighting lines, consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are largely immune to the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.
-A common type of warfare during WWI
-The strategy was mainly to defend oneself from fire, but at the same time try and breakthrough to the rear of the enemies
-during WWI both sides constructed elaborate trench and dugout systems opposing each other along a front, protected from assault by barbed wire. |
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-Created by a man by the name of Alfred von Schlieffen
-It was Germany's key war plan for invading France at the start of World War 1. It involved marching through Belgium in order to knock France out of the war quickly.
-It was almost successful in 1914, but France quickly caught on and stopped it from happening |
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-A British ocean liner
-During WWI, as Germany waged submarine warfare on Britain, Lusitania was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 on May 7, 1915
-The sinking caused many countries to turn against Germany.
-This event contributed to America's entry into WWI and became an iconic symbol in military recruiting campaigns of why the war was being fought |
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-A big diagnosis for WW1 that was found mostly in soldiers that were on the front line during battles
-People didnt really know or understand the disorder and when someone was affected by it, they refused to do orders
-When the brain cant function because of the intensity of the trauma, people want back on the front line because its all people know and it also causes a strong bond between soldiers |
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-This was one of the harshest treaties of WWI and was signed with Germany.
-This caused the Germany navy and air force seize to exist and the army was limited to 100,000 men.
-Germany and Austria were no longer aloud to join a political union ever again
-Germany had to take the sole responsibility for WWI and were forced to pay for most of the war debt |
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-It was established to maintain world peace
-Every country who signed a treaty after WWI had to join
-The two major flaws with this was that it was meant to arbitrate between two nations in conflict and that they relied very heavily on collective security.
-The League pretty much died after Italy invaded Ethiopia |
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-The revolution occurred when the Romanov Dynasty, which had ruled for the past 300 years in Russia, ended in the spring of 1917.
-The power was shifted to a provisional government that was led by a man by the name of Kerenski. (Not All the power was in the government hands, but it was also in a group known as the Soviets)
-The government was the people in the business suits and the Soviets were the people on the streets running the city.
-Throughout 1917, the Soviets got more radical and caused a tense and heated relationship with the Provisional Government. |
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-Was living in Switzerland at the time of WWI due to being exiled by the Russian government because of his obsession of communism and wanting to enforce it
-Was a lawyer at one time, but stopped being one to study Karl Marx and political philosophy
-In the summer of 1917 he arrived back in Russia
-The Germans were the ones who smuggled him back into Russia
-He took over the Bolshevik party, who eventually took over the soviets
-He called for a revolution for the Provisional Government to be overthrown and Russia be taken over by the Soviets
-He called for Russia to get out of WWI
-He created and followed his on form of Marxism known as Lenin-Marxism |
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-Was established to restore the economy
-The state owned the large business and the small business were privately owned and free of state rule.
-This started to modernize Russia and established a use of electricity and tech schools were established for engineers |
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-Argued that the reason for the Great Depression was not due to our excessive amount of supply, but because we had an inadequate amount of demand.
-The government should have been increasing spending, so demand would be increased as well.
-He thought that interest rates should be cut and we should create public works to provide jobs and we should redistribute income through tax policy. |
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-Created by FDR
-Wanted to create a minimum wage
-Give workers the right to organize in the trade union
-Created the social security system
-Created many work programs for people to have something to do
-The fundamental premise of this was that the federal government was justified in intervening to protect the social and economic welfare of the citizens |
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-Advocated a strong, central government under the Führer, for defending Germany and the Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans), against communism and Jewish subversion.
-A unique variety of fascism that involved biological racism and antisemitism.
-It presented itself as politically syncretic, incorporating policies, tactics and philosophies from right- and left-wing ideologies
-In practice, Nazism was a far right form of politics
-believed in the supremacy of an Aryan master race and claimed that Germans represent the most pure Aryan nation.
-They considered Jews a threat to the German nation and thought they were a parasitic race that attached itself to various ideologies and movements to secure its self-preservation. |
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-It was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
-It was officially introduced by Mussolini
-The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without the presence of Czechoslovakia.
-The Agreement was signed on September 30, 1938
-The agreement was signed by Nazi Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy
-The settlement gave Germany the Sudetenland starting 10 October, and de facto control over the rest of Czechoslovakia as long as Hitler promised to go no further. |
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-Major battle during WWII between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union
-Battle for the control of the city of Stalingrad
-Occurred between August 23, 1942 and February 2, 1943
-One of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare
-The estimated combined casualties between both sides amounted to nearly two million deaths.
-The Soviets overcame Germanys large army and claimed a victory for this war.
-This was a major turning point in the war, making a Germany victory in the East pretty much impossible |
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-Began on June 4, 1942
-It was an attack on an American base that was midway between Asia and America
-It was the first major naval battle in WWII between the USA and Japan
-The Japanese attacked in hope of destroying the American Fleet.
-America got lucky with this battle when a squadron of American bombers accidentally ran across a Japanese fleet and destroyed them. |
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-It was a key city for the shipping of military supplies to the Japanese out fighting
-The first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when America dropped an atomic bomb on it on August 6, 1945, near the end of WWII
-This bomb directly killed an estimated 80,000 people.
-By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought total casualties to 90,000-140,000.
-Approximately 69% of the cities buildings were completely destroyed, and about 7% were severely damaged |
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