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73 Cards in this Set
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Palm oil |
A west African tropical product often used for soap |
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Jihad |
Religious war wages by Muslim scholars and religious leaders against both animist rulers and Islamic states |
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Sokoto caliphate |
Founded in 1809 by Uthman Dan Fodio |
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Berlin conference |
A meeting of European leaders that laid down basic rules for imperialist competition I'm sub-Saharan Africa |
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Protectorate |
An autonomous state or territory partly controlled and protected by a stronger outside power |
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Afrikaners |
Descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony in southern Africa |
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New imperialism |
Late 19th century drive by European countries to create vast political empires abroad |
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Quinine |
An agent that priced effective in controlling attacks of malaria |
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White Man's Burden |
The idea that whites need to civilized non-white people |
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Tanzimat |
A set of redial reforms designed to remake the Ottoman Empire on a western European model |
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Great migration |
Mass movement of people from Europe in the 19th century |
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Migration chain |
Movement of people in which one strong individual blaze the way and others follow |
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Great white walls |
Discriminatory laws built by Americans and Australians to keep Asians from settling I'm their countries |
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Great Mutiny/ Great Revolt |
A term used by the British and the Indians, to describe the last armed resistance to British rule in India |
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Indian Civil Service |
Entry into the elite ranks through examination, that administered the Indian government |
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Young Turks |
Fervent patriots who seized power in the revolution of 1908 |
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Indian National Congress |
Political association formed in 1885 that worked for Indian self-government |
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Java War |
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 ruling house |
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Opium War |
War between the British and the Chinese over limitation on trade and the importation of opium into China |
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Extraterritorialty |
Legal principle that exempts individuals from local law |
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Taiping Rebellion |
Rebellion by believers in the religious teachings of Hong Xiuquan |
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Boxers |
Chinese secret society that blamed the country's ills on foreigners |
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1911 Revolution |
Uprising that brought China's monarchy to an end |
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Gunboat diplomacy |
Imposition of treaties and agreements under threat of military violence |
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Meiji Restoration |
1867 ousting of the Tokygawa Shogunate that "restored" the power of Japanese emperors |
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Russo-Japanese War |
War between Russia and Japan, fought over imperial influence and territory in northwest China |
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Indentured laborbers |
Laborers who in exchange for passage agreed to work for a numbers of years |
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Militarism |
The glorification of military as the Supreme ideal of the state which all other interest subordinate to it |
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Triple Entente |
The Alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia |
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Trench warfare |
Find me behind rows of trenches, mines, and barbed wire |
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Total War |
Practice by countries fighting in World War One, a war in which the government plans and controls all aspects of economy and social life in order to make the greatest possible military effort |
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March Revolution |
The first phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which unplanned uprising led to the abdication of the tsar and the establishment of the traditional democratic government that was then overthrown in November Lenin |
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Petrograd Soviet |
A counter government that was 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 Russia party of marxist socialism |
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War communism |
The application of the total war concept to a civil conflict |
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League of Nations |
A permanent International Organization established during the 1919 Paris peace conference to protect members States from aggression and avert future Wars |
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Treaties of Versailles |
The 1919 peace settlement that ended World War 1 |
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Dawes Plans |
Granted Germany's large loan from the United States to promote recovery |
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Mein Kampf |
Adolf Hitler's autobiography |
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Existentialism |
A philosophy that stresses the meaningless of existence and the search for moral value in the world of terror and uncertainty |
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Id |
Irrational unconscious |
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Ego |
The rationalizing conscious that mediates what a person can do |
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Superego |
The ingrained moral value that specify what a person should do |
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Modernism |
A variety of cultural movements at the end of 19th century in beginning of the 20th century |
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Functionalism |
The principle that buildings, should serve a purpose |
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Permanent mandate Commission |
A commission created by the League of Nations to oversee the development Nations fulfillment of their International responsibilities towards their mandates |
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Sykes-Picot Agreement |
The 1916 secret government between British and France that divided up the Arab lands of Lebanon |
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Balfour Declaration |
A 1917 statement by British foreign secretary author that supported the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine |
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Treaty of Lausanne |
The 1923 treaty that ended the Turkish war and recognized the territorial integrity of the truly independent turkey |
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Majlis |
The National Assembly established by the despotic shah of Iran in 1906 |
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Kibbutz |
Jewish Collective Farm on which each member shared equally in work, awards, and defences |
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Lucknow Pact |
Alliance between the Hindus leading the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League |
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Satyagraha |
"Soul Force" which Gandhi believe was the means of striving for truth and social justice through love, and suffering |
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May Fourth Movement |
a Chinese nationalist movement against foreign imperialist |
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New culture movement |
An intellectual Revolution, that attacked traditional Chinese culture and promoted Western ideas |
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Zaibatsu |
Giant conglomerate firms in Japan |
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Long March |
The 6000 mile Retreat of the Chinese US Army to a remote region on the Northwestern border of China |
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New Deal |
FDR's plan to reform capitalism through forceful government intervention in the economy |
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Popular Front |
A new deal inspired party in France that encourages unions and launched a far reaching program of social reform |
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Totalitarianism |
Heretical dictatorship that exercises complete political power and control over all aspects of society |
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Fascism |
The movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist nationalism, and glorification of war in the military |
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Five year plan |
Launched by Stalin in 1928, the goal was to modernize the Soviet Union then generate a communist Society |
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New economic policy |
Lenin's 1921 policy re-establishing limited economic freedom attempt to rebuild a agriculture and industry in the face of economic disintegration |
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Collectivization |
Stalin's forcible consolidation of individual peasant farms into large |
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Black shirts |
A private Army under Mussolini |
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Lateran agreement |
A agreement that recognized the Vatican as an independent state |
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Nazism |
A movement born of extreme nationalism and racism and dominated by Adolf Hitler |
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Enabling Act |
An act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis that gave Hitler absolute dictatorship power for 4 years |
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Blitzkrieg |
Lightning War using planes, tanks, and trucks |
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New order |
Hitler program, based on the guiding principles of radical imperialism, and claimed Jews as inferior |
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Holocaust |
The attempt to exterminate all European Jews |
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Europe first policy |
Military strategy, set forth by Churchill and adopted by Roosevelt, that called for the defeat of Hitler in Europe before the United States launched an all-out strike against Japan in the Pacific |
