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Motivations for imperialism in the 19th century

Raw materials, nationalism/spheres of influence, industrial revolution

Berlin Conference

Land claims in Africa

Conflicts between natives and Europeans

Sepoy Rebellion, Opium Wars

Indirect v direct rule

Indirect rule involves local leaders, direct rule is by foreign officials

Sepoy Rebellion

Indian rebellion against British army

Dynasty that fell in 1911 in China

Qing

Internal causes of Qing fall

Boxer, Taiping, population growth

External causes of Qing fall

Opium wars

Group by Sun-yat Sen

Nationalist Party

Causes of WWI

Franz Ferdinand, rise of nationalism, alliances, technology, military build

Country that produced the most steel by WWI

Germany

Triple Alliance

Germany, Austro-Hungary, Italy

Triple Entente

GB, France, Russia

Western Front

France

Eastern Front

Russia

Most loss in WWI

Russia

Reasons for US involvement in WWI

Zimmerman telegram

President during WWI

Woodrow Wilson

Armenian genocide

Christian Armenians vs Ottoman Turks

Post-WWI changes

Flu epidemic

Women's rights after WWI

Voting rights

Western governments after WWI

Planned economies

Empires that collapsed after WWI

Germany/Prussian, Austro-Hungary, Ottoman, Russia

Monarchy left after WWI

Britain

Germany after WWI

Reduce arms, pay reparations, accept responsibility, give up colonies, allow occupation

Company that split Germany

Poland

Arab states controlled after WWI

Britain (Palestine, Iraq) and France (Syria, Lebanon) Mandates

Countries formed after WWI

Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, Czech, Lithuania

Treaty with Germany

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Causes of Russian Revolution

Hunger, factory conditions, women's rights

Russian government from Feb-Nov

Provisional government

Man sent by Germany to Russia

Lenin

Lenin's party

Bolsheviks

Russian Revolution

November Revolution

Changes in Russia

1 political party, secret police, government by force, peace settlement, Romanov killed

War in Russia

Reds v Whites (Civil War)

Stalin's plan for Russia

Five-year plan, focused on heavy industry

German economy in 1921

Massive inflation

Signs of Germany's recovery in the 1920s

Treaty of Locarno, Dawes Plan, Kellogg-Briand Pact

Event in Germany in 1929

Stock market crash

Hitler's ideals

Racism/anti-Semitism

Act that put Hitler into power

Enabling Act

Japan invades Manchuria

1931

Fascist states

Germany, Italy (Mussolini)

Britain/France policy of no war

Appeasement

Hitler's first invasion

Sudetenland

Fascist pact

Rome/Berlin Axis

Timeline of Germany pre-WWII

Anschluss, Munich Conference, invasion of Poland

Totalitarianism in the USSR

Great Purges, churches closed, Holodomor, rapid industrialization

Pact between USSR and Germany

Non-Aggression Pact