History study guide (Updated 3/16)

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Economics

study of how people make decisions where wants are unlimited but recourses are limited, choices and decisions making

Economic system

system that answers the question of production, distribution, and consumption of goods and service

3 main parts of economic system

  1. What is produced

    2. how is it produced

    3. how its distributed + who gets it

Traditional Goverment

tradition and custom govern economic decisions, usually centered around one group/family

what goverment type would a monary be

traditiona;l

command

• government make all economic decisions, no competition

what type of govt would USSR be

Command

Market

• economic Deisons made by individuals competing to earn profits based on supply and demand

what type of govt is the US

Market

mixed

• Combines market and command, governments and individual share economic desion making

what is an exampke of a mixed govt

germany

economic goals

freedom, effciency, equity, security, stability

freedom

individuals can make their own economic decisions

effciency

• no waste, everyone gets what they want

equity

• equal distribution of wealth, not equality though

security

• providing necessity for poor

• Stability

• consistently available for public

what type of society was russia pre ww1

Agricultural society with lots of peasants, industrilization still new

goverment before russia revolution

• Czar Nicholas II rule Russia with absolute power

what happened to cities before ww1

• major cities grew from indusrilization, but left citizens in poor condition

What was bloody sunday

protest from Lack of pay and food caused unarmed strickes, killed protestors by Czar’s troops

how was russia during ww1

• Support serbia

• allies side

• Russian Faliure

March Revolution

Duma creates provisional govt. czar abdicates throne

Who was in charge after march revolutions

Kerensky

what did keresky do in sharge

• Brings liberal rights

• Keeps russia in ww1

  • Faliure and becomes unpopular

November revolution

• Vladmir Lein and bolsheviks overthrow provisional govt (pg)

who led the provisional goverment

• bourgeois capitalist class

Lenin

• takes over petrograd, becomes dictator of 1st communist nation

Civil war

Red vs White (comm. vs non)

how was the red fighting style

• Red very disciplined due to trotsky

how was white fighting style

• white disorganized no goals

communism

• Central govt. has banks & industry

• secret police “Cheka”

what was lenin’s slogan

• Peace, Land, Bread”

  • no ww1, people get to work and own things and counrty expands, food

july 1917

royal family killed

new economic policy

• modifyed capitalism, heavy industry reamined under goverment control

1923

creation of USSR

1924

• Lenin dies, Trotsky voted out

• Stalin takes power

5 year plan

Stalin’s plan for ocial, economic, and political revolution and , no more private propertytransforms soviet union from agricultural to industrial

great purge

• sent political opponent to labor camps, held “trials” and executed millions

what did western states think about eastern states

eastern states should determine own govt.

what did western states thinking new eastern states should determine own govt. do to stalin

• stalin fears thiss’ll cause antisoviet feelings

• fears will lose control of satillite nations

1945

UN forms

Truman Doctrin

• US help any country threatened by comunism

Marshall plan

• Recovery plan for europe

• SU and eastern states they refused

• US, Britian, France unifed zones in Germany

• very industrilized an rebuilt to be strong and stable

How did stalin respond to US, Britian, France unifing zones in Germany

• Stalin opposes and blockades west berlin

Berlin Airlift

• West Berlin has no help from others

• bring supplies to berlin

Tensions between US and USSR

• soviet expansion

• Mutlied assured destruction (cuba)

• Arms race

• Space race

• Proxy wars

Yalta confrence

Post war plan to divide germany and rebuild europe, get soviet union to join war against Japan, in return they get land

Postdam confrense

Actual action of dividing germay, and post war trieals and reperations

Chinese revolution

• civil war between communist and nationalists

who was mao

• father of communist china, leader of communists, basically stalin

great leap forward

• idea that they could increase industrilization w/o capitalism, paid ussr w/ grain = poverty

cultural revolution

• attempt to fire up masses, empowered children to rebel, support mao, go back to old glory days

4 olds

• culture, habit, ideas, customs

who made up red guard

youth

Berlin wall

• seperation of east and west germany

overthrow guatmalan govt

• US intervein put carlos castillo in charge then assinate him

overthrow chile govt

• US opposed leader and killed him

Prauge spring

• attempted liberation from SU, more citzen rights, soviet won

Hungarian rev

• protest to move away from stalinist govt, created new democratic govt

redd terror in ethiopia

• mengistu haile mairam killed all political opponents, got support from communist nations, eventually SU recinded support, so they fell

mossadegh

• prime min mossadge wanted to nationalize oil for Iran, US and britian didn’t like that so they overthrew him

Korean war

• Comm vs not, ended up staying split

Tianamen squar

• protestor died, so they came to mourn/protest, killed protestors

soviet invation of afghanistan

• (soviet) marxist vs Islamists (US), soviet heavy loss

Vietnam war

• rying to be communist US tried to stop, failed

What happens to leader after stalin death

• w/o successor framwork, so collective govt.

• Krushcev takeds power)

destalinization

• back to consumer goods and agriculture

• more millitary spending

Decolonization

• process of ending colonial rule and estabilishing new govt

neocolonialism

• using political, social, or economic control to influence former dependnt nations

civil disobedience

• nonviolent protest

aparthered

• nonviolent protest

causes of decolonization

• colonialism

• end of WW2

• cold war

• nationalism

• need for self rule

effects of colonialism

• politcal + economic instability

• neocolonialm

• 50+ countries get indepence

• greater focus on human rights

kenya and ghama

• some non violent protdst, some terroism protests (Mao Mao)

egypt

• Gamal Abdel Nassar wanted to nationalize suez cannal

Congo

• Unstable country, couldnt run w/o belgium

Isreal and Palestine

• Arab vs Jewish

• Zionist movement

  • wanted jewsih homeland

• created 2 countries