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41 Cards in this Set
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What were the main causes of WW1? |
Militarism Alliances Nationalism Imperialism Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand |
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Who were the central powers? |
Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire |
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Who were the allied powers? |
Russia Britain France United States |
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Ottoman Empire |
known as the "sick man of Europe"
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Balkans |
the powder keg |
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Archduke Ferdinand |
leader of the Austria Hungary empire |
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What were the new technologies in WW1? |
Tanks, machine guns, U-boats, grenades |
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Trench warfare |
defense strategy in war |
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total war |
when there is no limitation to the weaponry that can be used |
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propaganda |
advertising patriotism upon your country and making other countries look bad |
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Russian Revolution |
czars collapse and communists rise |
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pacifism |
when someone or something won't fight in the war |
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Lusitania |
passenger ship that was brought down by German submarines... major cause of the U.S joining WW1 |
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armistice |
truce where the countries agreed that the war would end |
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14 points |
written by Woodrow Wilson, ways to keep everlasting peace |
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League of Nations |
organization to keep the peace |
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self-determination |
a country decides whether or not they enter war |
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treaty of versailles |
french, british and germans signed the treaty |
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What happened after WW1 ended in terms of growth of Nationalism? |
Arab, Asian and African countries started to as for freedom |
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What were the major causes or motives of imperialism? |
the industrial revolution natural resources were wanted nationalism |
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social darwism |
the idea of survival of the fittest |
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white man's burden |
poem about the obligation of a white man to take care of the natives |
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ethnocentrism |
the idea that someone's country is better than anothers |
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Why was Africa colonized last? |
it was hard to get into |
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Belgian Congo |
rubber and ivory was traded |
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King Leopold ll |
king of Belgium |
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South Africa |
originally a dutch colony but the english pushed them out because they wanted diamonds |
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Cecil Rhodes |
English explorer who starts company for diamond hunting in South Africa |
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Zulu/Ashanti resistance |
fought against the British to protect the land they were losing |
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Boer War |
English vs Dutch- fighting for South Africa |
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Suez Canal |
new mode of transportation which made sending goods easier in Egypt |
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Panama Canal |
built by teddy roosevelt in panama |
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Sepoy Rebellion/Mutiny |
India sailors/soldiers rebelled against british east india company because the British were making the adopt english ways |
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Indian nationalism |
Ghandi was the leader of the Indian National Congress |
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British contribution to India? |
schools healthcare transportation |
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Opium Wars |
opium was a drug that was grown in india, which the british took and sold to china. china didn't want the british selling it so a war started |
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treaty of nanjing |
gave hong kong to the british forces chinese to give money to the british opium keeps selling |
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spheres of influence |
trading rights |
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Boxer rebellion |
chinese students were upset by foreign influences |
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treaty of kanagawa |
forces japan to trade with the U.S |
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Meiji restoration |
modernization and industrialization of Japan |
