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The British empires and the Qing Dynasty came about who the prisoners of wars sided with the British Empire. Also the Qing Empire owed money to the British with interest.
What were the conditions of the Treaty of Nanking
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Various economic and political theories advocating collective or government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods. Political ideology that favors cooperation over competition, community over the individual, and the public ownership of the means of production over free-marked capitalism.
What is socialism
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A theory that contends that natural and agricultural resources flow from poor and underdeveloped countries to developed countries leaving them always poorer then the developed countries.
What is Path Dependency
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Nationalism combined with militarism, the system of military alliances, and German plans to dominate Europe
What are the causes of WWI
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A stage of society in Marxist theory that is the transition between capitalism and communism.
What is the purpose of socialism
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Disputes between the Qing and the British over trade and diplomatic relations.
What were the Opium Wars
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Germany's emergence as an imperial power initiated the process historians refer to as this
What is the "Scramble for Africa"
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Natural resources of Latin American republics made them targets for a form of economic dependence.
What is Free-Trade Imperialism
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The allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after WWI to be administrated under the League of Nations' supervision
What is the Mandate System
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A political ideology advocating the creation of an economic system in which: - goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed, - the elimination of private property, - and an end to nationalism, and religion.
What is Communism
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The right of foreign residents in a country to live under the laws of their native country and disregard the laws of the host country. Also the 19th century and early 20th century the urban poor by founding schools and hospitals and providing other social benefits.
What is extraterritoriality
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Extending the power and domination of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indeirect control over the political or economic life of another sovereign state.
What is imperialism
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Successfully transferred the enthusiasm for nationalism away from liberal reform and into militaristic, imperial conquests, and put the new nation of Germany at the center of European politics.
Who is Otto von Bismarck
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Saw that Russian people wanted three things: peace, land, and food and the government had failed to satisfy these longings. He also believed that if the bourgeois government was overthrown and Russia left the war, then Marxist communists in the other warring countries would also rise up against their governments.
Who was Vladimir Lenin
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Requires urbanization, industrialization, and the formation of secular representative governments. Must also bring their military capabilities up to the European standard.
What is required for a state to achieve modernization
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The result of the new alliances between Britain, France and Ottoman Empire proceeding a power check on Russia.
What is the Crimean War
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Viewed history as a never ending series of conflicts between different social classes that formed according to the economic structure (means of production).
Who is Karl Marx
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The new rulers of Japan were the Meiji [enlightened way] oligarchs, a small group of powerful men willing to change their institutions and their society in order to transform their country into a world-class industrial and military power. The literacy rate in Japan was the highest in Asia at the time, and the oligarchs shrewdly exploited it in their introduction of new educational systems, a conscript army, and new communications. The Japanese not only learned industrial and military technology, science, and engineering, - they also copied clothing styles and other aspects of culture from the West
What is the Meiji Restoration
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Lost the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, overseas colonies, and valuable lands on its eastern frontier. Surrendered much of its merchant shipping and had to dismantle its armed forces. Most objectionable from the German point of view, was the “war guilt” clause which stated that Germany and its partners accepted responsibility for all loss and damage caused by the war
What were the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles
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- The doctrine or program of the Bolsheviks advocating violent overthrow of capitalism. [theory] - Transformation of the Communist Party into a bureaucratically organized, top-down apparatus, the eclipse of the soviets and the trade unions, and the suppression of opposition. [practice]
What is Bolshevism
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Payed for the industrialization of his country and took land from religious institutions and forced peasants to grow cash crops that the government bought cheaply and exported for profit. Also imposed a high tariff on imported goods.
How Muhammad Ali modernized Egypt
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Language was usually the crucial element in creating a feeling of unity throughout the state. This crucial concept of the 19th century identified with territory the state that ruled it and the culture of its people.
What was different about nationalism after the Revolutions of 1848
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Long-standing fear that a united Germany would upset the European balance of power had been realized but after the Franco-Prussian War Bismarck shrewdly worked to maintain peace and prevent France from forming an alliance against Germany. England was in competition with France and preferred to focus its attention away from Europe. Shift in power in continental Europe away from France to Germany led to the rise of militarism and foreign imperialism in Europe, which would eventually pose a great threat to Great Britain’s global supremacy.
What are the effects of German Unification
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Russia and France created the Entente to protect themselves from Germany, their neighbor and mutual enemy. France later convinced Britain to join them
What is the Triple Entente
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First world leader to embrace the idea of internationalism as a means to settle conflicts between nations peacefully. He believed the best way to resolve the conflicts created by nationalist demands was a policy of self-determination that would create new sovereign states based on ethnic or linguistic divisions
Who is Woodrow Wilson