World History Final 2nd semester

Question 1

3 motivations for European Imperialism

Answer 1

Ideological, Political, Economic

Question 2

Social Darwinism

Answer 2

The belief that certain people were better fit than other and were more powerful due to their race

Question 3

Colony

Answer 3

A place occupied by a country that isn’t connected to the home country

Question 4

Sphere of Influence

Answer 4

When a country dose not rule a nation but control’s has an impact on that country
Ex: Political and economic

Question 5

Berlin Conference

Answer 5

A metting between ONLY European nations to talk about the diving of Africa

Question 6

Scramble for Africa

Answer 6

occupation, division, and colonization of African territory by European powers

Question 7

King Leopold II and the Congo

Answer 7

Belgian king know for exploiting and murdering the Congolese people due to the use of rubber

Question 8

White Man’s Burden

Answer 8

A racist ideology that increased imperialism throughout Europe

Question 9

Biological Racism

Answer 9

belief that the human species is divided into specific biological races and that these races have passed down differences in abilities, intelligence, personality, and other traits

Question 10

African Resistance

Answer 10

Ethiopia and Liberia remained uncolonized and the Congo resisted

Question 11

Sepoy

Answer 11

Indian soliders that served for European Armies

Question 12

Jewel in the Crown

Answer 12

India was considered the most valuable and important of all the British colonies.

Question 13

Raj

Answer 13

The British rule in India

Question 14

Opium War

Answer 14

The growing supplies for Opium in China caused problems. The Qing emperor was angry about the situation and wrote a letter to queen Victoria about the problem. Caused a war the Chinese lost.

Question 15

Boxer Rebellion

Answer 15

A rebellion started by peasants to demonstrate their discontent as foreigners got special privileges

Question 16

Open Door Notes

Answer 16

Chinas “doors” would be open to merchants of all nations

Question 17

China v. Japan Experience

Question 18

Meiji Era

Answer 18

Mutsuhito took control of the government and realized the best way counter western influence was to modernize.

Question 19

Nationalism as a source of unity or disunity

Question 20

What wee the Pre WWI Multi-ethnic empires?

Answer 20

German Empire,Ottoman Empire, and Austro Hungarian Empire

Question 21

MAIIN Causes of WW1

Answer 21

M-militarism
A-alliamces
I-imperialsm
I-industrialization
N-nationalism

Question 22

Who was Franz Ferdinand?

Answer 22

Archduke of Austria-Hungary that was targeted by a Serbian terrorist group called the black hand

Question 23

Propaganda

Question 24

What was the Powder Keg of Europe?

Answer 24

The Balkan Peninsula that was know for and marked by their volatile situations between ethnic groups

Question 25

What was Schlieffen Plan?

Answer 25

A military plan created in 1905 explaining how Germany would fight a war on two fronts

Question 26

Western Front

Answer 26

The battle lines running from West France and Belgium along the Swiss border

Question 27

What was the Eastern Front?

Answer 27

It stretched from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south,

Question 28

Total War

Question 29

New wartime technology

Question 30

Trench Warfare

Answer 30

Opposing armies dig extensive, parallel trenches to protect themselves from enemies

Question 31

Allied Powers

Answer 31

Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, France,

Question 32

Central Powers

Answer 32

Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria

Question 33

Russian Revolution

Answer 33

major political and social upheaval in Russia, starting in 1917, that led to the end of the Romanov dynasty and the establishment of the Soviet Union.

Question 34

Fourteen Points

Question 35

Treaty of Versailles

Question 36

Lost Generation

Question 37

Hyperinflation

Question 38

Weimar Republic

Question 39

Rape of Nanjing

Question 40

Winston Churchill

Question 41

Fascism

Question 42

Adolf Hitler

Question 43

Benito Mussolini

Question 44

Anschluss

Question 45

Nuremberg Laws

Question 46

Kristallnacht

Question 47

Munich Conference

Question 48

Appeasement

Question 49

Joseph Stalin

Question 50

Pearl Harbor

Question 51

Four Theaters of War

Question 52

Atomic bombs

Question 53

Iron Curtain

Question 54

NATO vs. Warsaw Pact

Question 55

Proxy Wars

Question 56

Marshall Plan

Question 57

Truman Doctrine

Question 58

China becomes Communist

Question 59

Ghanaian Independence

Question 60

Berlin Wall

Question 61

Korean War

Question 62

Detente

Question 63

Vietnam War

Question 64

Chinese Cultural Revolution

Question 65

Mao Zedong

Question 66

Gandhi and Salt March

Question 67

Nelson Mandela

Question 68

Apartheid ends in South Africa

Question 69

Glasnost and Perestroika

Question 70

Decolonization