Power Shifts in Asia
This 1894–1895 war showed Japan’s rising power after defeating China.
What was the First Sino-Japanese War?
Founder of the Soviet Union after the Russian Civil War.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
The agreement signed in 1918 that officially ended fighting in World War I.
What was the Armistice of 1918?
The 1929 stock market crash that triggered the worldwide economic crisis.
What was the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
Urban workers often lived in overcrowded housing during industrialization.
What are tenements?
This 1904–1905 conflict shocked the world when Japan defeated Russia.
What was the Russo-Japanese War?
This Chinese nationalist leader led the Kuomintang after Sun Yat-sen’s death.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
The treaty that punished Germany and officially ended WWI.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
During the Depression millions lost jobs; this situation is known as this.
What is unemployment?
Farmers struggled due to falling crop prices during the 1920s.
What was the agricultural depression?
The ideology promoting loyalty to the emperor and national strength in Japan.
What is Japanese nationalism?
The communist revolutionary who later led China after a long civil war.
Who is Mao Zedong?
The international organization created to prevent future wars.
What was the League of Nations?
Governments sometimes raised tariffs to protect industries during the Depression.
What are protective tariffs?
Soldiers returning from WWI faced this psychological condition known then as “shell shock.”
What is post-traumatic stress?
This system in China divided the country among powerful military leaders after the Qing collapsed.
What is warlordism?
President of the United States during WWI who proposed the Fourteen Points.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Territories taken from Germany and the Ottoman Empire and governed by Allied powers.
What were mandates?
In the United States, this president attempted economic recovery through the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Women in many countries gained more independence due to wartime labor.
What is expanded women’s roles?
A movement led by Chinese students in 1919 protesting foreign influence and the Treaty of Versailles
What was the May Fourth Movement?
The Russian tsar overthrown during the Russian Revolution.
Who is Nicholas II?
The collapse of this large empire after WWI reshaped the Middle East.
What was the Ottoman Empire?
Economic hardship worldwide helped extremist political movements gain support.
What is political radicalization?
Cultural movements after WWI often reflected disillusionment with war.
What is modernism?