1st Nine Weeks
What is the transformation of agriculture from traditional medieval farming to more productive, efficient, and mechanical methods of farming through scientific innovation and new techniques starting in the mid-1700s?
The Agricultural Revolution
What meeting was Called by King Leopold II of Belgium to discuss the rising tensions in Africa & Happened in Berlin, Germany from Nov. 1884 - Nov. 1885, and it was a gathering of European leaders to decide how to divide Africa?
The Berlin Conference
Why was India the crown jewel of the British Empire?
It had a large population to buy goods & large production of natural resources
What are the 4 M.A.I.N. causes of World War 1?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
What jobs did women do during the war?
Women worked as: Nurses, Doctors, Worked in factories and business and drove vehicles
What is The process by which large numbers of people rapidly become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities and the process by which rural communities grow to form cities, or urban centers, and, by extension, the growth and expansion of those cities?
Urbanization
What are the 3 types of nationalism?
Separation, Unification & State Building
What is a place in China where other countries controlled all economic on goings, such as trade & investments in place of the Chinese people and government?
Spheres of Influence
What is a prolonged war or period of conflict during which each side seeks to gradually wear out the other by a series of small-scale actions, which World War 1 becomes?
War of Attrition
What is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view, used heavily in WW1?
Propaganda
What is a European intellectual movement in the 1700’s and 1800’s that focused on reason, logic, and individualism rather than tradition?
The Age of Enlightenment
What is seizure of a country or territory by another one which is stronger, with the stronger country often exploiting the smaller one for resources?
Imperialism
What was a policy created by America & agreed to upon by European powers, which said China & Chinese ports had to be open to & must receive all merchants from around the world?
Open Door Policy
What kind of warfare is it in which opposing armed forces attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground & was the dominant method of warfare in WW1?
Trench Warfare
What was Germany’s plan to knock France out of the war by attacking them with everything they have as quickly as possible before Russia is mobilized?
Schlieffen Plan
What is a change of world economies from agrarian based economies with goods produced by hand in cottage industries to mass production of good through machinal means that lasted from the mid 1700's through to the early 1900's?
The Industrial Revolution
What is Belief that people’s greatest loyalty should not be to a king or an empire but to a nation of people who share a common culture & history?
Nationalism
What is the policy where a countries law does not apply to visiting citizens, instead only their own countries laws apply to them, such as British laws applying only to British Citizens when British citizens are in/visiting China?
Extraterritorial Rights
What is a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded & Nations are willing to make any sacrifices necessary to win & will mobilize, or make use of its total available military, technology, and human resources to be victorious?
Total War
What treaty ended World War 1 and what mandates did it impose on Germany?
Treaty of Versailles and it forced Germany to limit its military, it had to give up land to France and other countries, and it had to pay war debts.
Pick 1:
List the 5 causes of the French Revolution
or
List the 4 reasons Britain was primed for the Industrial Revolution to start there
1.Natural Resources 2.Ready Labor Force 3.Acceess to Capital 4. Entrepreneurship
What is A social theory stated that Non-Europeans were on a lower scale of cultural and physical development than those in Europe because they did not have the same scientific & technological advances as Europeans?
Social Darwinism
What wars and rebellions opened China up to foreign influence?
Opium Wars, Boxer Rebellion, & Taiping Rebellion
What was series of interrelated diplomatic and military escalations among the major powers of Europe in the summer of 1914 which pushed the world towards war?
July Crises
What are the 5 causes of the Russian revolution?
Or
List some of the consequences of the Russian Revolution
1. Weak Leadership of Czar Nicholas II (Military & In General) 2. Poor living and working conditions of peasants, 3. Corruption of royal family: Rasputin, 4. Bloody Sunday 5. February Revolution
Consequences of Russian Revolution: Russia is forced to leave World War 1 & lose lots of land in peace treaty with Germany. Collapse of the Russian empire. Russia become a communist state known as the Soviet Union under control of Vladimir Lenin & Bolsheviks