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kinjikitile ngwale
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african man who went against the germany in east africa. known as the maji maji revolution. he was killed by germeny.
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cecil rhodes
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leading politician in cape colony said british were God rulers. british traumutized after war.
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boer war
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africaners fought against british in the cape colony and natal, both white. fought over diamonds. lots of people died. in south africa.
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africaner
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the descendents of the original dutch settlers.
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"open door" policy
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that all traders should have access. prompted by the US to gain access to China.
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boxer uprising
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chinese fouhgt against hte europeans. over religion. boxers thought they were invincible.
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red laterns
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women who participated in the boxer revolution
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J.P. Morgan
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bank owner. bailed out US economy twice.
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Winslow Taylor
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proposed a system of scientific management to make human bodies perform more like machines
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Buenos Aires
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known as the paris of south america. had a massive makeover in the nineteenth century. argetine city.
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"separate spheres"
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women were left to domestic and private matters while men were in charge of public matters and economic undertakings.
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women's suffrage movements
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women do work. vote. equality.
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pullman strike
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The Pullman Strike occurred when 4,000 Pullman Palace Car Company workers reacted to a 28% wage cut by going on a wildcat strike in Illinois on May 11, 1894, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.[1]
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russo-japanese war
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russians were defeated by the japanese, tsarist state was left to become a representatice government. autocracy was reestablished.
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mexican revolution
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erupted after the succession of general diaz. overtaken by peasants and workers.
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porfirio diaz
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general of mexico. ruled there. was brutal.
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sigmund frued
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innovative conceptions that help spawn modernism. jewish physician in vienna who pioneered insights into the power of the irrational.
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jose guadalupe posada
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mexican printmaker and artists who created comics.
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pablo picasso
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incorparated primitivism (more mysterious and instinctual truth, symbolic)into modern art
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james clark maxwell
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described the law of entorpy, the world is going to die
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shanghai school
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painting school in shanghai
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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african american intellectual who predicted racism
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1882 Exclusion Act
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law passed on May 6, 1882, following 1880 revisions to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly to implement the suspension of Chinese immigration, a ban that lasted over 60 years.
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Jose Vasconcelos
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mexican writer who gre dischanted with the brutal acts of diaz
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Sun Yat-sen
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symbolised nation building. attempted to reconstruct political community along national lines.
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Indian National Congress
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urban professional who debated social and political matters formed this political party.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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bengalo writer, philosophy, and teacher who became the poet laureate of the swadeshu movement in bengal.
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Pan-Islamism
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sought to link people across state boundaries. confused muslims.
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pan germanism
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souhgt to unite germans across countires. anti jewish legislation.
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modernity
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becoming moder
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triple entente
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The Triple Entente ("entente" — French for "agreement") was the name given to the loose alignment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire
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franz ferdinand
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Franz Ferdinand (December 18, 1863 – June 28, 1914) was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Prince Imperial of Austria and Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, and from 1896 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated the Austrian declaration of war. This caused countries allied with Austria-Hungary (the Central Powers) and countries allied with Serbia (the Triple Entente Powers) to declare war on each other, starting World War I.
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western front
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dug trenches
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john chilembwe
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everend John Chilembwe (1871 – February 3, 1915) was an orthodox Baptist educator and an early figure in resistance to colonialism in Nyasaland, now Malawi. Today John Chilembwe is celebrated as a hero for independence, and John Chilembwe Day is observed annually on January 15 in Malawi.
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nicholas II
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Nicholas II of Russia, or Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov (18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July [O.S. 4 July] 1918) (Russian: Никола́й II, Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Рома́нов) was the last Tsar of Russia, King of Poland,[1] and Grand Duke of Finland. He ruled from 1894 until his forced abdication in 1917. Nicholas proved unable to manage a country in political turmoil and command its army in World War I.
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Vladimir Lenin
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was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union. He was the creator of Leninism, an extension of Marxist theory.
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Woodrow Wilson
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Narrowly re-elected in 1916, his second term centered on World War I. He tried to maintain U.S. neutrality, but when the German Empire began unrestricted submarine warfare he wrote several admonishing notes to Germany, and eventually asked Congress to declare war on the Central Powers.
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League of nations
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The League of Nations was an international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919–1920. The League's goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy and improving global welfare.
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treaty of Versailles
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The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty that officially ended World War I. It was signed on June 28, 1919, exactly 5 years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, one of the events that triggered the start of the war.
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River Rogue
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ford factory. 45 million workers.
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wall street crash
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Crash of ’29 , was — taking into consideration the full scope and longevity of its fallout — the most devastating stock market crash in American history.
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great depression
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was a dramatic, worldwide economic downturn beginning in some countries as early as 1928. The beginning of the Great Depression in the United States is associated with the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday.
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john maynard keynes
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was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies. He advocated interventionist government policy, by which the government would use fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions, depressions and booms.
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harlem renaissance
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artists and intellectuals found new ways to explore the historical experiences of black America and the contemporary experiences of black life in the urban North.
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new deal
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is the title that President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a sequence of programs and promises he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving relief, reform, and recovery to the people and economy of the United States during the Great Depression.
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joseph stalin
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tsar of russia
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collective farms
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is a system of agricultural organization in which farm laborers are not compensated via wages. Rather, the workers receive a share of the farm's net productivity.
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five year plan
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catch and overtake the leading capitalist countries
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benito musolini
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leader of italy
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fascism
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german government
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nazi party
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lead by hitler
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adolf hitler
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bad man
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samba
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is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil. It is widely viewed as Brazil's national musical style.
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corporatism
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efers to a political or economic system in which power is given to civic assemblies that represent economic, industrial, agrarian, social, cultural, and professional groups. These civic assemblies are known as corporations
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guetulio vargus
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led brazil. strong political following by enactign social reforms.
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blaise diagne
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was a Senegalese political leader, the first black African elected to the French National Assembly, and mayor of Dakar.
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ghandi
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peace in india
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salt march
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first organized act of opposition against biritain
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chaing kai-shek
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seized control of china
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white wolf
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mysterious figure that led the rebellion
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mustafa kernal
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created modern turkish nation state
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muslim brotherhood
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attackered liberal democracy
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