REVOLT!!
This took place when the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, deposed Kerensky and sent him into exile. They replaced the government with a group of local councils all over Russia known as soviets.
The October Revolution
Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, all Five Civilized Tribes found new homeland in the Indian Territory. Which were the last two to go and why?
The Cherokee, who contested their removal all the way to the Supreme Court. And the Seminoles who fought their removal in the longest and bloodiest of all Indian Wars: the Second Seminole War
One of the results of this event was that Hong’s communist ideas planted the seed of communism in China. Mao Tse-tung would use Hong’s rebellion as a model for his own rebellion.
Taiping Rebellion
Founded the China Inland Mission in 1865 with 16 missionaries. By 1895 they had almost 1,000 missionaries.
Hudson Taylor
The MAIN causes of war
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism
1857 - Mexico adopted a new constitution, one that guaranteed the Mexican people freedoms like the ones in the US Bill of Rights. Mexico’s Catholic conservatives were upset with the new liberal, anti-Catholic constitution that took away the Catholic Church’s power to operate courts and gave the government power to confiscate church property. They started this to fight back.
The Mexican Civil War
500 US soldiers mercilessly wiped out 150 of the 350 Natives in the camp, many were women and children. This was the last major event of the Sioux Wars and part of the Ghost Dance Wars.
The Massacre of Wounded Knee
This was the spark that started the Mexican Revolution
Francisco Madero's “Letter from Jail” written in Texas on October 5, 1910.
Was elected president of Mexico in 1877 and stayed in office (unelected) for 35 years!
Porfirio Diaz
The spark that ignited WW1
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Serbian enemies of Austria-Hungary.
This group grew out of China’s struggle for independence from European influence that was now flooding China. They believed they could overcome the West’s technological advances with intense physical training and with spiritual help from their ancestors.
The Boxers
An Oglala Lakota Sioux from modern day South Dakota. He was part of the Sioux Indian Wars from beginning to end. He was involved in the Battle of Little Bighorn which included the final defeat and death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer at Custer’s Last Stand.
Crazy Horse
Tiny Japan took out big Russia and won the war. This war wrecked the Russian navy and embarrassed and weakened Tsar Nicholas II.
Russo-Japanese Wars
A devoted Marxist whose sole purpose in life was to launch communist revolutions. He believed that communist revolutions had to be led by a small core of highly trained intellectuals, must be violent and were very expensive.
Vladimir Lenin
Built on the premise that the best defense is a good offense. The author proposed that no matter how the next war began, Germany should immediately attack France within the first 6 weeks of war and then turn against Russia.
Germany’s von Schlieffen Plan
This forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate his throne and put in place a provisional government under Alexander Kerensky.
The February Revolution
The USA divided the Great Plains into 8 sections, one for each of the remaining Plains tribes. All the tribes promised to keep peace with the USA and to let them build railroads and forts on the Great Plains. In exchange, the USA promised to pay the 8 tribes a total of $50K per year in goods delivered to their “principals or head-chiefs.”
The First Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851)
On May 7, 1915, 128 American citizens were killed by a German submarine attack on a British boat. This was one of the factors for the US entering WWI.
The Sinking of the Lusitania
Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, China, France, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Montenegro, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, South Africa and the US
Allied Powers
By building up Germany’s military in preparation for the next war and recklessly promoting Prussian-style militarism. And by recklessly promoting Germany’s racial and national pride, leading many Germans to believe that their nation was invincible
How Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II helped instigate WWI.
Began with the Jintian Uprising against the Qing dynasty. In the process 20-30 million Chinese people died.
The Taiping Rebellion
The Progressive Era was led by liberal Americans who favored.
Labor unions over big business
Welfare payments for the poor and elderly
Equal rights for all
Banning alcoholic drinks
Voting rights for women
Central Powers late in WWI
Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany and the Ottoman Empire
Made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. They agreed to defend each other if Russia attacked.
The Triple Alliance
Communication sent to Germany’s ambassador in Mexico. Ordering him to offer Mexico Germany’s aid in recapturing the Mexican Cession of 1848 in exchange for Mexico’s aid against the US.
The Zimmerman Telegram