Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization (c. 1750 – c. 1900)
The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
Social Darwinism
This term describes the pre-World War I diplomatic and military buildup between European nations that led to the formation of two opposing alliances.
What is militarism?
This 1947 U.S. policy aimed to contain the spread of communism globally.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This economic policy encourages free trade, deregulation, and privatization, often associated with the late 20th century.
What is neoliberalism?
This Indian independence leader’s strategy of satyagraha emphasized nonviolent resistance.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
series of wars in China over opium trade and whether or not to legalize the trade
Opium Wars
This leader's "Fourteen Points" promoted national self-determination and a League of Nations, but was rejected by his own country.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This military alliance was formed in response to NATO and included the USSR and its satellite states.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This intergovernmental organization, founded in 1995, regulates global trade and resolves disputes between nations.
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
This leader of the USSR implemented perestroika and glasnost, reforms that contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It was against monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and instead favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeed in establishing a new constitutional era.
Young Turks
The Treaty of Versailles is often cited as a catalyst for World War II because of this specific clause that placed full blame on Germany.
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What is the war guilt clause (Article 231)?
This Algerian revolutionary group used guerrilla tactics to win independence from France in 1962.
What is the FLN (National Liberation Front)?
This agreement, signed in 1994, created a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
This economic system emphasizes government planning and control of production, as opposed to free-market capitalism.
What is a command economy?
Revolution, reform, or renewal, restored practical imperial rule to Japan
Meiji restoration
This 1917 agreement between Britain and the Zionist movement significantly influenced the post-WWI Middle East.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
The Bandung Conference of 1955 marked the emergence of this movement among former colonies seeking a path outside the Cold War blocs.
What is the Non-Aligned Movement?
This disease, identified in the early 1980s, became a global health crisis, particularly devastating in sub-Saharan Africa.
What is HIV/AIDS?
This 20th-century Chinese campaign aimed at rapid industrialization but led to widespread famine and death.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
Society agreeing to governed to maintain natural rights
(Johne Locke)
Social Contract
This genocidal campaign by the Ottoman Empire during World War I is recognized by many historians as the first modern genocide.
What is the Armenian Genocide?v
This U.S.-backed coup in 1953 overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran, fueling anti-Western sentiment for decades.
What is Operation Ajax?
This 1992 agreement committed countries to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and laid the foundation for future environmental cooperation.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
This movement challenged neoliberal globalization by promoting local economies, environmental sustainability, and fair labor
What is the anti-globalization movement?