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Great mutiny/ grrat revolt |
The terms used by the British in the Indians, respectively, to describe the last resistance to British rule in India, occurred in 1857 |
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Indian Civil Service |
The buteaucracy that a minist rated the Government of India. Entry into Elite was through examinations that Indians were able to take, but these tests are offered only in England |
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Indian National Congress |
Apolitical Association Foreman 1885 that was for Indian self government |
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Java war |
The 1825 - 1830 war between the Dutch government and the Javanese, fought over the extension of Dutch control of the island |
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Nguyen dynasty |
The last vietnamese rolling house, which lasted from 1802 to 1845 |
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Opium war |
The 1839 - 1841 war between the British and the Chinese over limitations on trade and the importance of opium into China |
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Extraterritoriality |
The legal principle that extends individuals from local law, applicable in China because of the agreements reached after China's loss in the Opium War |
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Taiping rebellion |
A massive rebellion by believers in the religious teachings of Hong Xiuquan, began in 1851 and not suppressed until 1864 |
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Boxers |
A Chinese secret society that blame the country's is on foreigners, especially missionaries, and roads and rebellion in 1900 |
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1911 rebellion |
The uprising that brought China's monarchy to an end |
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Gunboat diplomacy |
The imposition of treaties and agreements under the threat of military violence, such as the opening of Japan to trade after perrys demands |
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Meiji restoration |
The 1867 ousting of the Tokugawa Shogunate that restore the power of the Japanese emperors |
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Russo japanese war |
The 1904 - 1905 war between Russia and Japan fight over Imperial influence and territory in northern China (Manchuria) |
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Indentured laborers |
Laborers who in exchange for passage agreed to work for a number of years, this is Vienna contract |
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Liberalism |
A philosophy whose principal ideas were equality and liberty. The world demand of respective government and equality before the law as well as such individual freedoms as freedom of the press, freedom of the speech, freedom of assembly , freedom of the arbitrary arrest |
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Oligarchs |
The small number of individuals and families that monopolize political power and economic resources |
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Circum-carribbean |
The region and comforting the until light island as well as the lands that found the Caribbean Sea and Central America and northern South America |
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Caudillismo |
Government by charismatic figures who rule through personal power out of than the functioning of public institutions |
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Manifest destiny |
The belief that God had foreordained the United States to cover the entire continent |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
The 1848 treaty between the United States and Mexico and which Mexico ceded large tracts of land to the United States |
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Lerdo law |
In 1858 Mexican law that barred corporate land holdings |
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Neocolonialism |
The reestablishment of political and economic influence over regions after they had ceased to be formal colonies |
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Free womb laws |
A gradual form of abolition through which children born to slaves gain their freedom |
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Porfiriato |
The regime of Porfirio Diaz, who presented in Mexico from 1876 to 1880 and again from 1884 to 1911 |
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Latifundios |
Large landed estates |
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Anarcho-syndicalism |
A radical ideology that proposed the revolutionary reorganization of society into an egalitarian community ruled by labor unions |
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Monreo doctorine |
Established a cubist fear of influence over the Americas by opposing European imperialism on the continent |
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Roosevelt corollary |
A corollary to the monroe doctrine stating that the United States would correct that it's all wrong doing in neighboring countries |
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Militarism |
The glorification of the military as the supreme idea of the state with all other interests subordinate to it |
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Triple entente |
The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia and in First World War |
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Trench warfare |
Fighting behind rows of trenches, mines, and barbed wire. Used in World War one with a staggering cost in lives minimal games in territory |
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Total war |
Practice by country fighting in World War 1, a war in which the government plans and controls all aspects of economic and social life in order to make the greatest possible military effort |
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March revolution |
The first stage of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and which unplanned uprisings led to the abdication of the tsar and the establishment of a traditional democratic government that was then overthrown in November by Lenin and the Bolsheviks |
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Petrograd Soviet |
A counter government that was a huge, fluctuating mass meeting of two to three thousand workers soldiers and socialist intellectuals |
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Bolsheviks |
The majority group. This was Lenin's camp of the Russian party of marxists socialism |
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War communism |
The application of the total war concept to a civil conflict.the bolsheviks feed grain from peasants, introducing rationing, nationalised all banks and industry, and requires everyone to work |
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League of nations |
A permanent international organization established during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to protect member states from aggression and avert future wars |
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Treaty of versailles |
The 1919 peace settlement that ended World War one. It declared Germany responsible for the war, limited Germany's army to 100 thousand men, and Forest Germany to pay huge reparation |
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Dawes plan |
The product of the reparations Commission, accepted by Germany, France, and Britain, that reduce Germanys yearly reparations , made payment dependent on Germany economic prosperity, and grant to Germany large loans from the United States to promote recovery |
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Mein kampf |
Adolf Hitler's autobiography, published in 1925 which also contains Hitler's political ideology |
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Existentialism |
The name given to a highly diverse and even contradictory philosophy that stresses the meaninglessness of existence and the search for moral values in a world of terror and uncertainty |
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Id, ego, and superego |
Freudian terms for the primitive, irrational conscious, the rationalizing conscious that meditates what a person can do, and the ingrained moral values that specify what a person should do |
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Modernism |
A variety of cultural movement at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 12th century that rebelled against traditional forms and conventions of the past |
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Fuctionalism |
The principle that builds, like industrial products, should serve the purpose for which they were made as well as possible |
