Global Studies Regents Review (Grade 10)

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Nationalism

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- Love of one's country

- It helped to unify Germany & Italy

- It led to the break up of Austria-Hungary Empire & Ottoman Empire

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Otto Von Bismarck

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- The leader who united Germany

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Imperialism

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- A stronger country taking over a weaker country for natural resources and trade

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Social Darwinism

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- Strong people or countries survive and conquer territory

- Weak people or countries die or are conquered

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Westernization

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- When a ruler decides to modernize their country, bring it up to date with new ideas

- Make a country more like Europe or the US

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Napolean Bonaparte

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- France

- Leader following the French Revolution

- Attempted to gain control of Russia and other territories, failed though due to the cold winters

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Industrial Revolution

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- Transition to new, more modern manufacturing methods using machines

- Began in England in 1760

- Use of coal, iron and waterways to power new technology

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Capitalism

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- Economic policy in which the government stays out of business dealings for the most part

- Countries like Great Britain and the US use this policy

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Laissez-Faire Capitalism

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- "Hands-off"

- Belief that the government should have absolutely no say in business dealings

- Supply and demand should determine prices in the free market

- Adam Smith was the economist who came up with this idea

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Communism & Karl Marx

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- Government control of business and economics

- Called for the workers (proleteriats) to overthrow business owners (capitalists)

- Russia/Soviet Union

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Irish Potato Famine

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- Massive starvation due to the failure of the Irish to grow potatoes

- Forced the migration of many Irish people to other parts of Europe and America

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Suez Canal & Panama Canal

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- Ocean shortcuts

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Sepoy Mutiny & Boxer Rebellion

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- Attemps to remove foreign influence in the countries of India (Sepoy) & China (Boxer)

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Meiji Restoration

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- Japan westernized, modernized and industrialized its country

- Feudalism was banned

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Reason For Japanese Imperialism

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- Japan lacked natural resources and had to take over other countries to acquire these resources

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Causes of World War I - MANIA

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- Militarism

- Alliances

- Nationalism

- Imperialism

- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Treaty of Versailles

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- Agreement that ended World War I

- Placed all the blame for the war on Germany

- Ruined Germany and was one of the reasons Hitler came to power

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Russian Revolution

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- Led by Vladimir Lenin who promised peace, land and bread to all

- Violent revolution that made Russia a Communist country

- Russia became the Soviet Union

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Joseph Stalin

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- Communist Dictator of Soviet Union after Lenin died

- Ruled with an iron first

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Five-Year Plans & Farm Collectivization

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- Stalin's attempt to increase the Soviet Union's industrial and agricultural production

- Led to famine and starvation

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Kemal Ataturk

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- Leader of Turkey

- Good ruler who modernized and westernized Turkey

- Introduced democracy

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Mohandas Gandhi

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- Leader of the independence movement in India

- Used non-violent protest & civil disobedience

- His methods worked and Great Britain gave India independence

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Totalitarianism

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- When one ruler has total control over a country

- Government censorship and propaganda are used to brainwash people

- Germany (Hitler) & Italy (Mussolini) during WWII

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Great Depression

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- Time period of economic hardship and struggle

- Main reason why people like Hitler came to power

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Anti-Semitism

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- Hatred of Jewish people

- Hitler and the Nazi's during WWII

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Nuremberg Laws

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- Hitler and the Nazi's anti-semitic laws designed to discriminate against Jewish people in Germany

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Cold War

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- Time period after World War II in which the democratic countries of the world (US/Great Britain) did not get along with the communist countries (Soviet Union)

- No actual physical fighting took place

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NATO

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- An alliance against the Soviet Union

- Main goal: contain the spread of communism

- Led by the US & Great Britain

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Chinese Communist Revolution & Mao Zedong

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- 1950's in which China became a communist country

- The peasants supported the revolution

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Great Leap Forward

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- Mao Zedong's plan to build China's industry, agriculture and infrastructure

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Deng Xiaoping

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- China's leader after the death of Mao Zedong

- Introduced some elements of capitalism to China's economy

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Four Modernizations

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- Deng Xiaoping's attempts to modernize China's economy

- Introduced some elements of capitalism

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Petroleum & OPEC

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- Oil

- The organization OPEC controls the oil supply

- The Middle East has the most oil supply

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India & Pakistan Split

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- Religious differences between Hindus and Muslims

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Pan-Africanism

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- Movement to unite/promote peace between the countries of Africa

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Jomo Kenyatta

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- African nationalist who led Kenya's independence movement from Great Britain

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Apartheid

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- Segregation (separation) of the races by law in South Africa

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Nelson Mandela

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- Led the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa

- Became first black leader of South Africa in 1991

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Iranian Revolution

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- Religious revolution in Iran (1979)

- Led to an extreme Islamist government in Iran

- Led by the Ayotollah Khomeini

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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- Soviet Union leader in the 1980's

- Eased tensions with the United States and Great Britain

- Introduced elements of capitalism to the economy

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Perestroika & Glasnost

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- Gorbachev's new economic policies for the Soviet Union

- Introduced elements of capitalism to the economy

- Led to the break up of the Soviet Union

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Modern Day Human Rights Violations

Cambodia

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- Led by Pol Pot and his group the Khmer Rouge

- Pol Pot's communists slaughtered thousands in Cambodia

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Modern Day Human Rights Violations

Rwanda

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- Hutus vs. Tutsis

- Use of machete knives

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Desertification

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- Deserts expanding due to overuse from farming

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Green Revolution

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- Increased agricultural production due to modern technology

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Nuclear Proliferation

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- An increase in the amount of countries trying to obtain nuclear weapons in the modern world

- North Korea & Iran