Industrial Revolution
Essential to westward expansion because they made it easier to travel to and increase trade
What is a railroad?
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country
Nationalism
Reasons for exploration
What is Gold, God, & Glory
Causes of WWI
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism, Assassination (MANIA)
"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces
Blitzkrieg
A series of laws enacted by the British government that enabled landowners to purchase and enclose land for their own use that had previously been common land used by peasant farmers
What is Enclosure Acts
chancellor of Prussia who unified to create a Germanic state.
What is Otto Von Bismarck
Meeting at which Europeans agreed on rules for colonizing Africa
Berlin Conference
The type of warfare used in WII with dugouts and no man's land
What is Trench Warfare
Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability.
What is appeasement
The two social classes that emerged during the Industrial Revolution
What is the Middle & Working class
Who is Toussaint L' Ouverture
What is a leader of the Haitian Revolution slave rebellion
A foreign region in which a nation has control over trade and other economic activities.
What is a Sphere of Influence
Submarines, automatic weapons, trench warfare, tanks, airplanes, depth charges, poison gas.
What is new weapons in WWI
This event brought the U.S into the war (WWII)
A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
What is Communism
Unlike in Germany, nationalism caused Austria Hungary this result
What is to break up
rebellion in Beijing, China started by a secret society of Chinese who opposed the "foreign devils". The rebellion was ended by British troops.
What is the Boxer Rebellion
Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Treaty of Versailles
Attacking enemy-held islands and bypassing others lead by General Douglas MacArthur
What is Island Hopping
This country was the first to industrialized leading to become a global superpower... again
What is Great Britian (UK or England)
series of republican revolts against European monarchies, all ended in failure because instead of joining together to fight the old empire, minorities fought each other.
1848 Revolutions
Modernization and westernization in Japan
Meji Restoration
Led by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party that took over the Russian government during WWI
Bolsheviks
Responsible for peace and security around the globe
What is United Nations