Unit 5 Flashcards
(51 cards)
What group started the Indian National Congress?
Indian elites that were educated with European western methods
Sun Yatsen led the _________ movement in China.
Nationalist
what is PanIslamism. name an example
all muslim people come together to make one big Nation of Islam
impacts of WW1
- nationalist among colonies
- germany fought hard (no alliances with austria, no navy, had to pay for the war)
- Europeans lost their prestige (they were no longer the best civilized area)
what happened to social hierarchies within european society
women gained voting rights and higher status in many places after the war.
what happened to global trade?
It did NOT increase
Rivalry between which two countries and in what way led to WW1
Germany & Great Britain; naval races
which two innovations in the western front made it a stalemate?
poisonous gas, machine guns, barbed wire
Woodrow Wilson put forth his 14 points after the war, which he expected to be used as treaty measures. which one was the only one actually used?
creation of League of Nations
reds vs. whites; lenin is helping them out. The leader did not overthrow the czar. instead, after cczar was abdicated the provisional government overthrew when they formed the winter palace and took control.
Bolsheviks revolution
How did WW1 affect production?
increase in production due to need of weapons and such war materials
During the 1920’s what particular product dropped a lot in price? Whose jobs would be in worst state?
prices in agricultural products; Farmers
What did Keynes think about the economy in comparison to previous terms of capitalism (laissez faire) where the government was not supposed to intervene & the economy took care of itself
Keynes thought that sometimes the government needs to step in to stimulate the economy by printing extra money & creating programs to give work to people.
Which president enlarged the government during the Great Depression?
Franklin D Rooosevelt
Saw development of authoritarian political systems like fascism, communism: what political ideology were these political ideologies against?
Liberal Democracy
What did Stalin do to change the economy in agriculture to change into a socialist economy to move away from capitalism? what did he do to farms?
Collectivized the farm (put all farm land together do there is no private product you are making)
What else did stalin use to keep his people in line?
Terror and Fear (sent the people to Gulags)
In order to build up their infrastructure and increase industrial capacity what did the soviets do (method used) in the 1920s - 1930s
They used a Five Year Plan
How did Mussolini gain control of power of govt?
He said he was going to march on Rome, so the king got scared and appointed him prime minister.
How is naziism different from other extreme authoritarian types of government? What did they focus on that other countries in particular didnt care about? (Japan, Italy, Spain)?
That their rac is superior, in opposition to the jews- antisemetism
Why did Japan turn away from democracy and towards authoritarian type of rule?
Wanted to be self-sufficient because the great depression had a big impact on them
After WW1 what role did Africans have in ruling their colonies?
None; They let the government know how they felt through protest.
Who was the person who really strengthened the Indian National Congress into a movement for anti-colonialism
Ghandi
Turkey is a successor state of which empire?
Ottoman
