P4 Silver Front Flashcards
What were the underlying causes of WW1
- Regional military conflicts
- flawed alliance system
- imperial expansion
- widespread nationalism
With the onset of the global depression, how did governments take more active roles in their economies?
-FDR’s New Deal
- Stalins Five Year Plan
- Fascist corporate economies
- Populist government in Mexico
What land based empires collapsed during this time period?
- ottoman empire
- qing dynasty
- russian empire
What were the major causes of WWII
- rise of totalitarianism in central europe
- treaty of Versailles from WWI
- German desire for lebensraum
- Economic Depression
What cases of genocide and ethnic cleansing took place with the rise of extremist groups.
- Holocaust
- Holodomor
- Cambodian under the Khmer Rouge
- Armenians in Turkey
- Tutsis in Rwanda
What shift in global power occurred after WWII
- Balance of two superpowers: US vs. USSR
- Non-aligned movement in Indonesia and Ghana
What major alliances were formed, leading to smaller conflicts as part of the greater cold war
Nato vs. Warsaw Pact
Proxy wars:
- Korea
- Vietnam
- Angola
- Nicaragua
What occurred in China as a result of internal tension and Japanese aggression?
- communist revolution
- great leap forward
Which political leaders or movements sought to redistribute land and resources in Asia, Africa, and South America?
- communist revolution (Vietnam)
- white revolution (Iran)
- Mariam (Ethiopia)
- Governments of Brazil and Mexico
As colonial boundaries were redrawn after WWII what population displacements and resettlements occurred?
- Division of the Middle East into mandates
- Two-state solution of Israel and Palestine
- Partition of India
