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russian revolution |
a revolution in 1917 that dismantled the Tsarist autocracy. (Got rid of the Tsar) |
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The columbian exchange |
the exchange of goods, and technology between the America's and europe |
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Facism |
a right wing type of leadership |
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Industrialism |
happened during the industrial revolution, items such as the assembly line were invented during this period |
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biological old regime |
A society where a large percent of people were peasants who produced food for themselves and the rest of the population |
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biological new regime |
a society where people had a choice of what they would do to feed their families |
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Sun Yat-Sen |
The founder of the republic of China |
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New imperialism |
a period of colonial expansion by European powers |
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Ghost dance |
a religious movement incorporated into numerous religious beliefs |
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Canton system |
a way for China to control trade with the west of its country by diverting all trade through the south port |
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Three world system |
a hierarchy order to describe the world order |
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partition of the Ottoman empire |
This happened after World War 1 after the occupation of British, French, and Italian troops in Constantinouple |
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Neolibralism |
a movement that moves economic control from the public sector to the private sector |
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Mao Zedong |
A Chinese communist revolutionary who founded the Peoples republic of China |
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Sepoy rebellion |
a rebellion in India against the British East India Company. This Ran from May 1857 to July 1859 |
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Opium Wars |
Wars fought over disputes in British trade in China over the resource of Opium. The wars were also fought over China's souvereignty |
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Suez Crisis |
an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France |
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aparthheid |
discrimination or segeregation based on race |
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Treaty of Nanjing |
This was a treaty that ended the first opium war in 1842 |
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Economic globalization |
a phrase meaning increasing economic integration and interdependence of national, regional, and local economies across the world |
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Ho Chi Minh |
a Vietnamese prime minister who was a Communist revolutionary leader who led the Viet Minh independence movement in 1941 against the French Union |
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Taiping Rebellion |
a massive civil war in China from 1850 to 1864 and was fought between the Qing dynasty and the Millenarian movement |
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estates general |
a meeting in 1789 called by King Louis XVI to try to correct the French economy |
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Social Darwinism |
the theory that individuals, groups, and people are subject to the same evolutionary mechanisms that plants and animals are subject to |
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Muhammad Mossadegh |
an Iranian Prime minister from 1951 to 1953. His rule was cut short when he was overthrown by a coup aided by the American Central intelligence agency (CIA) |
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sovereignty |
the authority of a state to govern itself or another state |
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Belgian Congo |
a Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 1960 |
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Chiang Kai-shek |
A Chinese political and military leader who served the Republic of China from 1928 to 1975 |
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Zaibatsu |
a large Japanese business conglomerate |
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Russian revolution |
a pair of revolutions in 1917, which ended up dismantling the Tsar autocracy |
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Wahhabism |
a sect or religious movement or branch of Islam |
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Right of Self Determination |
a cardinal principle in modern international law binding |
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Berlin Conference |
a conference to regulate European colonization and trade in Africa during the new Imperialism movement |
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spinning jenny |
Invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves, this was an important tool for colonial industrialization |
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Hassan al-Banna |
founded the Muslim brotherhood, was assassinated in 1949 |
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The British Raj |
Britain rule in the Indian sub-continent between 1958 and 1947 |
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Nazism |
a set of political beliefs starting in the 1920's associated with the Nazi power movement in Germany. This lasted until 1945 |
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old imperialism |
focused on a nations ability to conquer new lands |
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new imperialism |
focused mainly on the technological advances that a country was making |
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globalization |
the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments of different nations |
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Iranian revolution |
revolution in 1979 where the Pahlavi dynasty was overthrown. The leader of this dynasty was Mohammas Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was supported by the United States |
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Taiping rebellion |
a massive civil was in china that lasted from 1850-1864, was fought between Qing dynasty and the Heavenly kingdom of peace |
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Kokutai |
translates to national policy |
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Hungarian uprising |
a revolution of Hungary's people uprising against Solviet policies |
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Marxism |
the political and economic theories of Karl Marx that formed the basis for the theory and practice of communism |
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Ngo Dinh Diem |
a south Vietnamese politician and a mandarin of the Nguyen dynasty. Was assassinated in 1963. |
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Meiji restoration |
a chain of events that restored imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under the emperor at the time |
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Benito Mussolini |
served an anti-facist rule over Italy from 1922 to 1943 as the Prime Minister |
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fordism |
term used to describe the postwar mode of economic growth associated with the social order in new capitalism |
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Nelson Mandella |
president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 who was anti-aparteid |
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nationalism |
patriotic feelings, principles |
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glasnost |
the practice of a open consolidated government initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev |
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perestroika |
the practice of restructuring the economic and political system introduced in 1979 by Mikhail Gorbachev |
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Vladimir Lenin |
a Russian communist revolutionary who was influenced by Karl Marx. He died on 1924 |
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Mustafa Kemal "Ataturk" |
a Turkish army officer who founded the Republic of Turkey, and served as president from 1923 until his death in 1938 |
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Partition of India |
event that divided the British Indian empire into India and Pakistan. This happened in August of 1947 |
