Revolutions
SPOKE OUT AGAINST ABSOLUTISM/INFLUENCED REVOLUTIONS AND LAID THE GROUNDWORK
The Enlightenment
MAJOR EUROPEAN NATIONS CARVED UP OR DIVIDED AFRICA INTO COLONIES
Berlin Conference
TRENCH WARFARE/USE OF POISONOUS GAS; MANIA
World War I
Racial Segregation/ Nelson Mandela fought against this.
Apartheid in South Africa
HIS POLICIES OF PERESTROIKA AND GLASNOST HELPED TO END COMMUNISM IN THE SOVIET UNION
Mikhail Gorbachev
Started in Great Britain; Led to low wages/long hours and urbanization.
Industrial Revolution
THE NEED FOR RAW MATERIALS AND NEW MARKETS, THE BELIEF THAT EUROPEAN CULTURE WAS SUPERIOR TO THAT OF THE NATIVES (SOCIAL DARWINISM), THE DESIRE TO BECOME MORE POWERFUL AND WHITE MANS BURDEN (ìUPLIFT OR CIVILIZE THE NATIVESî)
Causes of Imperialism
WAR GUILT CLAUSE/ HEAVY REPARATIONS PAID BY GERMANY
Treaty of Versailles
THE SALT MARCH THE HOMESPUN MOVEMENT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND PASSIVE RESISTANCE
Gandhi
DEPENDENCE AMONG THE VARIOUS NATIONS OF THE WORLD ON EACH OTHER
Interdependence
Defeated the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai Shek / Great Leap Forward/ Cultural Revolution/ Long March
Mao Zedong & Chinese Communist Revolution
AREAS IN CHINA THAT WERE TAKEN OVER OR DOMINATED BY EUROPEANS
Spheres of Influence
POLICY OF APPEASEMENT AND NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN/GAVE HITLER THE SUDETENLANDS
Munich Agreement
Balfour Declaration/ Zionism/ Camp David Accords
Creation of Isreal
FOUR MODERNIZATIONS ALLOWED FOR SOME CAPITALISTIC ELEMENTS CRUSHED THE STUDENT PROTESTS (TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE)
Deng Xiaoping
THOUGHT WORKERS WERE BEING EXPLOITED AND URGED THEM TO UNITE - HISTORY OF CLASS STRUGGLE
What revolution was started because of these ideas?
Karl Marx
Russian Revolution
JAPAN WESTERNIZES OR MODERNIZES
Meji Restoration
WARSAW PACT (COMMUNIST ALLIANCE) VS. N.A.T.O. (DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE)
Cold War
Nationalist Leaders: Jomo Kenyatta; Kwame Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism
African Independence Movements
ASSEMBLY OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD MAJOR PURPOSE: TO PROMOTE PEACE AMONG NATIONS
United Nations
LED BY AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI AND ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS OVERTHREW THE SHAH AND SET UP AN ISLAMIC THEOCRACY
Iranian Revolution
Caused India to become an official colony of Great Britain
Sepoy Rebellion
SADDAM HUSSEIN / IRAQ'S DISPUTE WITH KUWAIT/OIL
Persian Gulf War
Otto Von Bismarck/ Blood & Iron / Upset Balance of power in Europe
Unification of Germany
Reduce Trade Barriers / End Tariffs between US Canada and Mexico
Regulates price of oil / determine supply of oil in world market / Middle East
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.