Chptr. 24 WWH - Guns and Government

Post Midterm

what societies were focused on in the chapter 24

non western societies

what was the critical challenge that non-western societies faced

resisting western military dominance

why were non western societies slow to adopt western technology

dilemma that modernization = abandonment of cultural traditions

what was the example chapter 24 used to show the dilemma of having to choose between modernization or cultural tradition

King Kamehameha I and Caesar Augustus

What was argued to be required for effective modernization

comprehensive reform

what is included in comprehensive reform

systematic changes in professional officer corps, mass conscription armies, centralized government, industrial economies, new bureaucratic and fiscal systems

what was the example used for the need of modernization of military

Failure of Ottoman Empire and China to Success of Japan

what is the country that serves as the main example for being able to adopt western tech without losing cultural identity

Japan

What facilitated European Imperial expansion

machine guns, steamships, recruitment and training of local soldiers, exploitation of ethnic divisions 

what served as a seed for future conflict

the success of western imperialism

what about western imperialism later inspired anti-colonial resisters

nationalist ideology and demonstration of western weapons

failure of direct military confrontation led to the emergence of what western challenge and for what century

guerilla warfar (20th century)

what country’s victory over Russia provided the first crack in the idea that European global dominance was invincible

Japanese Victory