Unit 1 China, Japan and the West
Between 1839-1860 what major war was fought between China and Britain?
What is The Opium Wars
What were the "MAIN" Causes of World War I
What is 1937
What major superpowers? were involved
What are The United States and The Soviet Union
This leader became the first black president in South Africa.
This “event” of 1899-1901 was a major revolution led by anti-Western and anti-Christian forces in Chinese society
What is :The Boxer Rebellion
Who were the Allied Powers and the Central Powers in World War I?
What are Allies Britain, France, U.S. Russia (until 1917). The Central Powers were Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire.
December 7,1941.. Japan attacked this US base in Hawaii?
what is Pearl Harbor
Astronauts, Sputnik, Neil Armstrong, Nuclear weapons, are all examples of what particular races.
What is the Space and Arms Race
In both nonviolent and armed resistance movements, leaders used this term of pride in "one's country" to unify their people toward a common goal of independence.
what is Nationalism
Faced by the economic and political takeover of unified European states, China and Japan both sought to maintain their political and economic independence and prowess by adopting some ideas and practices of the West. What is this called???
What is Westernization
Peace, Land and Bread..
What is The Russian Revolution
Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill.. all leaders of what group
What is the Allied Powers
Leading a "Communist" Regime in China and evolving a relationship with the Soviet Union who am I?
Who is Mao Zedong
The UN Partition plan of 1947 split Palestine into 2 groups
This term is the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other territories and peoples.
What is Imperialism.
Modern warfare, Trench warfare, Tanks, Airplanes, Machine Guns were common in this timeframe of 1914-1918?
What is World War I?
What two cities were bombed during the Atomic Bomb in Japan?
What are Hiroshima, and Nagaski
Vietnam, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Korea all examples of ?
What are Proxy Wars
Kenyatta, Nehru, Gandhi, all lead...
What are Independent movements
This restorative political program that followed the destruction of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, in which a collection of young leaders set Japan on the path of centralization, industrialization, and imperialism.
What is The Meiji Restoration
This "treaty" liquidated the German, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman Empires and, thus, formed several new independent states or mandates; (2) imposed harsh reparations and complete war guilt on Germany; and (3) established the League of Nations.
What is the "Treaty of Versailies".
What conferences put an end to World War II?
What is the Paris Peace Conference
Which US President said : Mr. Gorbachev "Tear Down this wall"
What is Ronald Reagan
What were the three main regions of the world did we cover in this unit.
What is Israel, India and Africa