Industrial Revolution
This is what the Industrial Revolution was, and the three factors that drove it.
What is increased production of machine-made goods in England during the 1700s which led to an economic and urbanization boom, and it was driven by land, labor, and capital?
The Berlin Conference (1884-1885) established these rules.
What is rules for colonizing Africa, which were that any power could seize a colony if it alerted the other powers, could pacify it, and could maintain control of it?
These are the five primary causes of the First World War.
What is:
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Emperor (Wilhelm II) ?
This is what Stalin's Five-Year Plans hoped to accomplish.
What is to modernize Russia by forcefully and quickly developing heavy industries and collectivizing farms to increase food production?
This was the theory put forward to justify American interventionism during the Cold War.
What is the domino theory?
This is what the Agricultural Revolution was and how it led to the Industrial Revolution.
What is the Agricultural Revolution was the process of landowners buying up all the land they could to practice new scientific methods of farming, which led to increased crop yields, increased population, and a large landless labor pool; all of this led to urbanization and made industrialization possible?
Explain how paternalism can be seen as an outgrowth of Social Darwinism.
What is that Social Darwinism applies Darwin's Theory of Evolution to humans and society, arguing that the white race is the fittest and should therefore rule; while paternalism argues that because whites are superior they have a duty to civilize the rest of the world?
This is the name of the Austro-Hungarian imperial heir who was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in the Balkans, a region known colloquially as this.
What is Franz Ferdinand and the "Powder keg/Tinderbox of Europe"?
This was the name given to the American postwar economic plan to rebuild Europe. It involved the US providing loans, consumer goods, and machinery to devastated nations in the hopes of reviving their economies.
What is the Dawes Plan?
This was the purpose and goal of the Marshall Plan.
What is that the United States would give money, resources, machines, and support to any nation seeking to rebuild after the war, including Russia and the Soviet bloc?
What is it increased the power, wealth, size, and influence of the industrialized nations which inherently weakened those who had not industrialized fully or at all?
This was the goal of direct colonial control while this was the goal of indirect colonial control.
What is the goal of direct control was to assimilate the colony into the mother country's culture, while indirect control sought to develop indigenous leaders loyal to the mother country?
President Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" as a whole were what, in broad terms?
What is plans for a postwar world built around open alliances and trade, national self-determination, and disarmament?
This is how Stalin rose to power in the Soviet Union.
What is Stalin became a follower of Lenin and rose to become the Communist Party Secretary, a position he used to swindle and threaten his way to becoming Lenin's successor, which allowed him to create a totalitarian state and purge his opposition?
How did the Holocaust evolve before and during the war?
What is that it started with the Nuremberg Laws restricting Jewish rights; which led to Kristallnacht, forced emigration, and ghettoization; which led to the "Final Solution" of exterminating Jews by firing squad, then slave labor, then gas chambers?
These are the primary differences between socialism and communism.
What is that socialism calls for government control of the economy to ensure equitable opportunities, while communism calls for the workers to seize the means of production directly and to abolish government?
Japan was able to resist western imperialism while China found itself unable to for these reasons.
What is Japan learned its lesson when it was forced open and began a crash-course of industrializing and reforming its government and society along western lines; while China resisted trade, resisted contact, tried to negotiate, and refused to reform?
The Gallipoli campaign is an example of a geopolitical struggle. This is what the campaign was and what its ultimate goal was.
What is that it was an amphibious attack on the Dardanelles with the goal of seizing Istanbul and opening a supply line from the Mediterranean to the Russians on the Black Sea?
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Compare Hitler's rise to power with Mussolini's.
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What is Hitler and the Nazis became the majority party after a series of Depression elections, Hitler was made Chancellor in an attempt to control him, then he burned the Reichstag and passed the Enabling Acts; while Mussolini started the Fascist Party, gained support among middle, upper, and industrial class people, and was "legally" granted the right to create a new government by the king because of the March on Rome before the Depression?
This is what was decided at the Yalta Conference, and this is what happened at the Potsdam Conference.
What is at the Yalta Conference the Allies agreed on the division and administration of postwar Europe, while at the Potsdam Conference Stalin violated the Yalta agreement by refusing to allow free elections in the east?
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This is how industrialization led to imperialism.
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What is that industrialized nations sought to expand and seize weaker nations in search of raw materials to drive their industries, prestige, new markets for their goods, and geopolitical advantages over their competitors?
This is how imperialism led to the First World War.
What is that global competition for colonies and the prestige and resources they brought led to increased tensions between the great powers, the great powers began using them as bargaining chips, and militaries grew to protect them?
This is how World War One led to the Depression and extremism of the interwar years.
What is that the series of loans the US made to rebuild Europe became circular, so when the stock market crashed and the US demanded repayment other nations defaulted which crippled the global economy; this allowed authoritarian leaders to rise in democratic nations because they promised swift and decisive action?
This is how the interwar years led to the Second World War.
What is that authoritarian leaders rearmed their nations, became aggressive, and spread in an attempt to regain their former glory and honor?
This is how the Second World War led to the Cold War.
What is that the west and the Soviets disagreed over the division and rebuilding of postwar Europe; the west, led by the US, called for democracy and free elections while the Soviets established communist dictatorships to act as a buffer zone against the western powers?