Industrial Revolution
What geographic features were necessary to allow international trade during the industrial revolution?
Deep Harbors
What is Imperialism?
A policy of extending power through diplomacy or military force.
What is a police power in International Politics?
A country willing to step in to bring order
What were the effects of the Panama Canal on American Trade?
It connected the coasts and paved the way for easier access
What is a similarity between the Boxer Rebellion in China and the Sepoy Mutiny in India?
They were both fights against foreign influence
What happened to the size of the working class during the industrial revolution and why?
It grew as people left the farms for the factories
The British Landlord system in Ireland required exports throughout the 1800s making what disaster on the island worse?
The Great Potato Famine
What type of struggle did Karl Marx view the world through?
Class Struggle
What was commodore Matthew Perry best know for?
Opening Japan
What happened to the population of other countries during the Great Potato famine in Ireland?
Their Irish Population Went Up
What two natural resources had the biggest impacts on the change in transportation and manufacturing in the Industrial Revolution. (Think Steam Engine)
Coal and Iron
Why was India taken from the EIC and given to Britain?
The Sepoy Mutiny
What is the Governments Role in Laissez-Faire Capitalism?
To stay out of the economy
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The establishment of the US as a police power in the America’s
What is a sphere of influence?
A region where a foreign power has a high level of control
What change in Europe in the 1800s gave it so much power?
Industrialization
What happened to raw materials inside of European Colonies in Africa?
Resources were Exploited
What was the goal of Zionism in the late 1800s?
To Establish a Jewish Homeland
What about the Spanish American War turned the US into a world leader?
Victory in a two front war
What was the difference in Reaction to imperialism by Japan and China?
Japan modernized while China attempted to remain traditional
What is it called when a nation bars or restricts people from practicing their native religions?
Religious Persecution
Japan’s Expansion was motivated primarily by what?
Lack of Resources
What were the Russian Communists called in the early 1900s?
Bolsheviks
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
America’s Promise to not allow the reconquest of American territory by Europe
What is an Ethnocentric Attitude?
The belief that a culture is inherently better then another.