CHAPTER 11
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
This treaty in 1919 was to figure out who needed to held accountable in the aftermath of World War I. European nations figured out Germany was the sole nation responsible even though they did not start in the first place. The US did not attend these discussions.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
The following was created during the cold war, in part, to undermine the appeal of European communist parties.
What as the Marshall Plan?
The following provided the foundational knowledge for the technological advances of the twentieth century
What is university-based scientific research?
During the twentieth century increasing numbers of people migrated because of which of the following? This is a type of push factor.
What is poverty?
He was the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state.
Who was Sultan Abd al-Hamid II?
He was the first leader of the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the Russian Civil Wars in from 1918-1922. He had a bright future for Russia but ended up being ousted by a young Joseph Stalin.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
The spread of communism into which region what the Cold War a truly global conflict.
What is Asia?
The following provided the world's number one source of energy during the second half of the twentieth century.
What is oil?
What did Enlightenment Thinkers and Karl Marx have in common in their philosophies?
Religion was doomed to extinction.
An antiforeign movement (1898-1901) led by Chinese militia organizations, in which large numbers of Europeans and Chinese Christians were killed. It resulted in military intervention by Western powers and the imposition of a huge payment as punishment.
What was the Boxer Uprising?
The following event resulted from Mao Zedong's belief that capitalist tendencies had penetrated the Chinese Communist Party.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
This movement under African and Asian nations resulted from their European colonizers being weakened by World War II and a growing movement of people who wanted to free themselves.
What is decolonization?
This group is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland that regulates and facilitates international trade. Governments use the organization to establish, revise, and enforce the rules that govern international trade in cooperation with the United Nations System.
What is the World Trade Organization?
This is an international treaty on climate change. Adopted in 2015, the agreement covers climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance.
What are the Paris Climate Accords? or Paris Agreement.
These were two conflicts that Britain had started with China. One was from 1839 to 1842, the other 1856 to 1860. It involved the trading of a certain drug that negatively affected the Chinese people and economy.
What were the Opium Wars?
Chiang Kai-shek led this Nationalist Party of China or the Chinese Nationalist Party, as a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.
What is the Guomindang?
This conflict in 1961, under the guise of President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev, nearly resulted in World War III. It all started when the US placed intercontinental ballistic missiles in Turkey.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The following was identified as a key issue in Western feminism by women of color in the 1960s.
There's two parts!
What is ending racism and poverty?
This 20th century pandemic happened after World War I, it initially was thought to have originated in Spain and led to the loss of 21 million people.
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918.
He was a Chinese political philosopher and politician. He was a head of state (Viceroy), Governor General, scholar-official, and under the Daoguang Emperor of the Qing dynasty best known for his role in the First Opium War of 1839–42.
Who was Lin Zexu?
This Axis power during World War II was not really like its allies in having a fascist party rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Instead the economy of this nation was in shambles and the military took control of the nation and never gave it back.
What is Imperial Japan?
This was a political party established in Dhaka in 1906 when some well-known Muslim politicians met the Viceroy of British India, Lord Minto, with the goal of securing Muslim interests on the Indian subcontinent
What was the Muslim League?
This is a diversified set of economic activities, enterprises, jobs, and workers that are not regulated or protected by the state. The concept originally applied to self-employment in small unregistered enterprises.
What is an informal economy?
The following was partially responsible for the "rusting out" of industry in the United States during the late twentieth century.
What is the liberalization of global trade?