Locations of Conflicts
Napoleonic Wars.
Where was all over Europe from Portugal to Russia?
Leader of the "Long March", CCP, became known as "the Chairmen", viewed in Chinese culture and education as 70% good, 30% bad. Died in 1976.
Who was Mao Zedong aka Mao Tse-Tung?
Russo.
What is Russian?
The Chinese were forced to pay these war costs to the British and other western powers after the losses of the Opium Wars.
What are indemnities?
First Opium War. British Victory. First set of unequal treaties.
When was 1839-1842?
The PRC and Chairman Mao's plan (modeled on the USSR aka Soviet) plans to rapidly modernize through 5 year plans, one aspect of it was through home-made steel production. That part was not successful.
What was The Great Leap Forward?
Economic philosophy that emphasizes private ownership of land and businesses, a "laissez-faire" or hands-off government regarding regulation of business, and freedom for business owners to set their prices and earn profits based on supply and demand.
What is capitalism?
What were the Tanzimat Reforms?
The Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864.
Where was southeastern and southcentral China?
Leader of Nationalist Party, physician, educated in Hawaii, established a republic after the 1911 revolution, allied with the CCP to deal with Japan, Warlords, and WWI. Died in 1925 leaving a power vacuum.
Who was Sun Yat-Sen?
Franco.
What is French?
Indian soldiers trained and serving in the British East India Company and later for the British military in conflicts in their empire throughout the world. Some rebelled in 1857 due to their second class treatment.
Who were Sepoys?
Boxer Rebellion. Anti-Western. Somewhat Qing approved. Ended by a military coalition of Japan, Russia, Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary.
When was 1898-1901?
Over 150,000 Chinese laborers served the Allied side in World War I, with the hope was that their service would be rewarded by returning the Shandong Province from this European nation back to China, instead it was given over to Japan, which prompted the Nationalist (student led) May 4th movement.
What was Germany?
Individuals may own property and small
businesses. State ownership of essential
services (electricity, water, internet).
What is socialism?
A term for a set of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ideas that held that all people in Asia—under the leadership of the Japanese nation—should band together to reduce Western influence in the region. It became a motivating ideology to justify the expansion of Japanese military efforts in Asia in the 1930s and Japan’s occupation of northern China.
What is Pan-Asianism?
Haitian Revolution.
Where was the West Indies aka Caribbean, on the island of Hispaniola's west side, as a French colony it was called St. Domingue?
Chinese provincial leaders that had their own local militaries (militias), were similar to landed nobility, and shifted their alliances during the interwar period after the 1911.
Who were the warlords?
Anglo.
What is English?
Legal principle forcing a host nation (typically 19th-century Asian nations) to exempt foreign nationals from local law, allowing them to be tried by their own consular courts. These coerced agreements, known as unequal treaties, prioritized foreign sovereignty over local law, providing immunity (and impunity) for soldiers, merchants, and missionaries, particularly in China, Japan,
What was extraterritoriality?
World War I aka The Great War aka the War to End all Wars (that didn't work out).
When was 1914-1918?
Chairman Mao advocated more more opportunity, education and equality for these people in the population who he said "held up half the sky".
Who were Chinese women?
Entire elimination of property rights – no
individual land ownership. No economic
incentives to individually own.
What is communism?
Made steam power more efficient, hence the amount of power is named after him.
Who was James Watts?
1st and 2nd Opium Wars.
Where was China during the Qing Dynasty?
Took over leadership of the Nationalists after the death of Sun Yat Sen(aka the KMT/GMT due to these two different spellings Kuomintang and Guomindang), didn't trust the CCP, after losing to the communists retreated to Taiwan and was the president of the Republic of China.
Who was Chiang Kai-Shek?
Sino.
What is Chinese?
Philosophy largely adopted by the Japanese during the Meiji Restoration that focused on the liberation of Asia from the political, economic, and cultural domination by western powers that Asian countries had faced since the nineteenth century.
What was Pan-Asianism?
First Chinese revolution, Emperor Pu Yi abdicated. Sun Yat Sen returned. A republic was established. Warlords persisted. Then World War I happened.
When was 1911?
In the 1960s this program was implemented by the PRC and Chairman Mao to detract from the failures (famine!!!) of the Great Leap Forward, it focused on the youth of China and getting rid of all of the "old things" (as well as purge any perceived threats to the CCP and PRC). Educators, religious figures, and older generations were attacked and humiliated by the younger generations who were encouraged to do so. These younger generations also were forced to go and live in the deserts and other agricultural settings to "toughen them up". Xi Jinping was one of
What was The Cultural Revolution?
The free market will determine prices
and competition will drive improvements.
What is capitalism?
Nationalist movements couldn't fully be suppressed with the Congress of Vienna, these countries would unite through creation of nationalities among their different kingdoms, as well as war and diplomacy in order to unite them.
What were Germany and Italy?
Boxer Rebellion.
Where was rural northeast and northcentral China?
Current president of China. Until the rest of his life.
Who is Xi Jinping?
Prussian.
What was one of the most powerful German states?
By the mid 19th century it was clear that the Qing Imperial government, its bureaucracy, and its military were out of date, also known as this term.
What is antiquated?
1918-1939. Civil War, death of Sun Yat Sen, growth of CCP, "roaring 20s" in the west, followed by the great depression after 1929.
What was the "inter-war" period?
The Communists and Nationalists put aside their differences, albeit temporarily to participate on the Allied side in this conflict that officially began in 1939 in Europe, however Japan had reinvaded China in 1937.
What was World War II?
Prices defined by government who
respond and control supply and demand
to artificially control pricing.
What is communism?
Nationalist movements were leading to independence and revolutionary movements in these two empires (one was entirely in Europe, the other located in Southeastern Europe, the Levant, Anatolia and North Africa).
What were the Austrian (Austro-Hungarian) and Ottoman Empires?
Franco-Prussian War, 7 Weeks War, Prussian-Danish War.
Where was central/northern Europe?
1850-1864; the most deadly civil war known to world history, 20 million dead, Qing leaders had to gain help from warlord provincial armies, the French and the British.
What was the Taiping Rebellion?
Colonialist term (meaning we don't use it anymore) referring to people and culture of, from, or characteristic of Asia, especially eastern Asia.
What was "oriental"?
Japan rapidly modernized and set about reversing their unequal treaties and became an Asian imperialist nation in the later half of the 19th century with this movement.
What was the Meiji Restoration?
Second Sino-Japanese War, two years before the official start of World War II.
When was 1937?
This was the PRC program of the late 1960s and 1970s that created the Red Guard, targeted the youth to overturn the Four Olds, and reeducate them through manual labor in mountains and deserts of China. Xi Jinping lived in a cave for a time during his teenaged years.
What was the Cultural Revolution?
Healthcare is free and accessible to all. Operated by
the federal government.
What is socialism?
This power source (that is mined, and does not burn cleanly) was vital to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
What was coal?