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Spanish expansion

  • christopher columbus was sponsored to sail across the atlantic by the spanish to find a western route to the spice trade 

  • he thought he fought asia but he actually found two new continents that nobody knew about

  • spanish voyages to the new world multiplied and helped them establish their rule and claim to a vast world of colonization

  • marked the opening of hte transatlantic trade

    • better than indian ocean trade

    • their established trade in philippines and colonized them

      • they use the same methods they used in americas

      • tribute collection, coerced labor

      • portugal and spain got really rich so others got jealous

      • the big three who was was france

        • established presence in canada which established the fur trade

      • england 

        • sponsoring exploration to the americas

        • first colony roanoke island sir walter raleigh

        • jamestown 

        • they wanted in on the indian ocean

        • they established trading post in mughal empire 

      • dutch

      • gained independence from spain

      • became prosperous in europe

      • dutch control of strategiton through indian ocean and their monopoly on spice trade that increased their power and influence


columbian exchange: the transfer of new diseases, food, plants, and animals between the eastern and western hemispheres → environmental phenomena

  • disease

because people throughout afro eurasia had been in contact for millennia they have development immunity with the diseases around them  

because of the isolation of the indigenous they were not used to it the european diseases lead to lots of death

  • europeans transferred measles and smallpox to the america

  • malaria: it was carried through mosquitoes and indigenous peoples died

  • food and plants

    • greatly affected both populations in the new and old world

      • olives, wheat, grapes, rice, bananas, sugar, maize, potatoes

      • incorporated new foods from africa and asia and the americas

        • led to healthier populations and it increased in population, longer lifespans

    • millions of enslaved people brought more foods too

  • demand increase in europe for these new crops

    • they used cash cropping

      • Cash Cropping: A method of agriculture that focuses on growing crops, usually a single crop, primarily for export. 

    • Sugar cane was grown and abundance with the world of african labors

  • Animals

    • Horse, sheep, cattle

    • horse helped the most 


resistance to imperialist expansion

  • Resistance from asian states against the intrusion of western powers in the Indian ocean

    • Tokugawa Japan

    • When the portuguese come, they open to it bc he was interested for trading for gunpowder weapons

    • Big motivations for european imperialism to spread christianity

      • a growing number Japanese people converted to christianity 

      • shogun thought this was a threat to the unification of japan

      • suppressed this western foreign religion with brutality and violence

      • as a result japan isolated itself of the growing influence of european commerce and the indian ocean and only talking to the dutch

  • Resistance on the local level in european states themselves 


  • the fronde occurred

    • new edicts increasing taxation

    • french nobles got fed up and it led peasant rebellions

    • the monarchy increased in power even more

  • resistance from the enslaved

    • in most european colonies enslaved africans were forced to labor on plantations

    • maroon societies (society of free blacks) runaway slaves

      • in jamaica colonial troops wanted to crush the free blacks

    • they signed a treaty for the freedom


effect: expansion of african states

  • The expansion of maritime trading networks fostered the growth of some AFrican states who participated in them, connecting these states to global economic linkages these networks represented, even if the networks were becoming increasingly european centered


  • asante empire

    • able to providehighly desired goods that europeans wanted , gold ivory enslaved 

    • it made them so rich that the wealth further enabled the asantes to expand their military and consolidate their political power moreof the reigon

  • the kindom of the kongo

  • strong diplomatic ties with the portuguese and provided things like gold and copper and enslaved people

  • the king converted to christianity in order to facilitate trade with christian satates


change and continuity in netowrkds of exchange

  • indian ocean network

  • change

    • entrance and massive power grabs of european states into this network

  • Continutity

    • Middle eastern, south asian, east asian, and southeast asian merchants continued to use indian ocean network

      • european entrance into this trade network increased profits not only for europeans but also for many of these merchants who had always used the network for trade 

    • long established merchants like the gujaratis continued to make use of indian ocean network

    • despite growing european dominance on the sea, overland routes like the silk roads were still almost entirely controlled by various asian land based powers

      • most notably Ming China, Qing, and hte Ottoman Empire

    • Peasant and artisan labor continued in many regions as demand for food and consumer goods increased as a result of multiplying trade connections

      • for example as the demand for cotton increased throughout europe peasant farmers in south asia increased their production for export

      • this increased their standard of living

      • this also happen silk production for china


Change: atlantic system

  1. opening of the atlantic system

  • the movement of goods, wealth, and laborers between the eastern and western hemispheres made europeans rich and powerful 

  1. sugar

  • colonial plantations in the caribbean specialized in sugar

  1. silver

  • the spanish got busy mining izlver int he americas

    • silver was used to purchase luxury goods form china

      • satisfied the chinese demand for silver

      • further developed the commercialization of china’s economy

  • goods that silver purchased were traded on the atlantic system

unit 5

(heimler live)

Big Idea #1

New ways of thinking embodied in the enlightenment created the occasion for reform and revolution

  • The enlightenment was a european movement that shifted knowledge from believer to data

    • natural rights: people have the power to govern themselves and hte government exists through the people's consent

      • john locke

  • what is the effects that it had

    • ideas led to reform movements

      • womens suffrage (the right ot vote)

      • movement for abolitionisn (to end slavery)

      • slave trade is bandnned 

Big Idea #2

The ideas of the Enlightenment, combined with rising nationalism, led to various revolutions throughout the world

nationalism: people sense of belonging together from common religion, state, language, social customs, terriitoy - pride ni being who we are 

  • tis combined with englihtnment though leads to relvolutions

    • american revolution

    • we see enlightenment ideas in declaration of independence

    • growing sense of nationalism

    • repressing colonial or british policies

    • inspired the french and the hatiain and latin american revolutions

      • mix of growing sense of nationalism

    • france has declaration of mannand citizen


big idea #3

the industrial rebolutiion began in britain and transformed the world

  • industrial rov.ution was a change in how stuff was made for sale

  • no longer being made by hand

  • begins in britain bc britain had the right factors, proximity to waterways, lots of raw materials coal iron timber, urbanization was occuring, improved agricultural productivity, etc

  • the rise of the factory system started in britain too

  • started  bby steam engines

  • factories were able to mass produce goods

  • rlly about textiles (clothing)

  • factories made goods faster and cheaper than people could so labor shifted in the way it was done. there was a great speaciliztion. rise of unskilled labor


big idea #4

as western industrialization spread, middle eastern and asian countries’  share in global manufacturing declined

  • fancy way of saying as industrialization is taking root in western countries in european countries they are doing more manufacturing in the world so the people who used to do it they are getting less

  • the rapid deveolpoment of steampower helped europeans help dominate world manufacturing 

  • as it happened it spread and declined in europe, us, russia

  • TERRIBLE CONDITIONS!!!!

  • in us there was immigration to urban centers

  • in russia there was trans-continential railroad construction which had a way of knitting of the people and culture and economy of the state together

  • same this with us

  • japan embraced industrializationwas a big outlier in the area of the world

  • japan did it defensively to protect its domestic constitution 

  • (MEIJI RESTORATION!!!)


big idea #5

the advent of new technologies fundamentally changed the landscape of manufacturing 

  • the industrialization was broken up into two different periods

  • first one

    • it majored in textiles

  • second one

    • steel

  • big difference was how they were pweroed

  • first hald was stem engine/coal second one was the internal combustion engine that was powered by fuel

  • anothe technology that was paritail to it was RAILROADS!

  • the effect was to unite large land masses and societies into a single–ish economy 

  • it had a way of making a lot of money

  • railroads were very good for consolidating colonial power

  • ceasal roads was trying to link all of the british colonies in africa

  • there was the telegraph that was a huge leap forward in communication technology


big idea #6

significant economic shifts occurred during this period including the rise of free market capitalism, transnational businesses, and increased standards of living 

  • western european nations began abandoning mercantillism and they were replacing it with free market capitalism

  • due to adam smith

  • he argued that government should be lassie faerie

  • governments should have their hands off their economy let consumers make their own choices

  • economic shifts: transnational corporatinos

  • the unileaver

  • british and dutch venture

  • focused on household goods

  • by 1890 they had soap factories

  • did business all across the world

  • a new innovation

  • this led to increased standards of living for a lot of people

  • when there is more goods can be sold at lower prices so mor epeople could afford it

  • led to the rise ofthe middle class


big idea #7

as industrialization spread, it created the occasion for some states to enact reforms

unit 6

new imperialism: context:

  • Several western states set their sights on building maritime empires (sea based empires)

    • focused on the indian ocean and colonized the americas

ideology #1: nationalism

  • nationalism: describes a sense of commanality among a people based on shared language, religon, social customs, and that is often linked with a desire for self-rule within a territory

    • people across the world often understood themselves as subjects of a soverign like a king or queen

      • peopels loyalties were becoming to their own people/their nation

    • the unification of germany or italy were the results of nationalistic desires of people who wanted to live in a consolidated state of their won

    • nationalistic impulses led states into a bitter rivalry to claim larger and larger empires across the world bc thats “how u achieved great power status”

ideology #2: scientific racism

scientific racism: the idea that humans can be hierarchically ranked in distinct biological classes based on race.

  • the science part is the new thing about the racism

  • europeans divided the world into us and them

  • we were the christians and they were non-christians. they split up

  • scientific racism took this division into the secular realm and attemped to classicfy humanity according to race

  • clasification that they made up

  • scientific racists develped various practicies to justify the superiority of the white race above all others

  • phernology was the study of the shape and size of human skull

    • they decided that the skulls of white people were bigger than other races, they were more suprerior of the other race

    • the imperial projects of the europeans were all together justified

ideology #3: social darwinism

  •  charles darwin argued that the species currently in existiance developend and evoldedfrom natural selction

  • he believed that species survive because they are better adapted to their environment

  • “only the fittest survive”

  • if only the fittest survive and thrive in nature, then appplied to human society, that must mean that western industrail societies have proven that their ways are the best suited for the current global enviornment

ideology #4: civilizing mission

  • civilizing mission: a sense of duty (industrial) societies possessed to bring the glories of their civilizations to “lower” societies.

  • since they understood themslves as having won the darwinistic ideology they thought they had a duty to help their “child races” underneath their imperial care

    • there was a strong impulse for sending christian missionaries

    • reorganization of colonial govenrments into western models

    • imposition of western-style education on many colonial populations

      • goal: supressed indeginous culture and language

historical developments

setting the stage

  • shifting geographical focus

    • 1750-1900

      • europeans focused on

        • africa

        • asia

        • southeast asia

  • change in imperial states

    • 1750-1900

      • spain and portugal are declining

      • great britain, france, dutch are continuties

      • germany, italy, belgium, united states, and japan are new

private to state control

  • state takeovers of private colonies

  • belgian congo in africa

  • private colony held by king leopold ii of belgium

  • new state who ebcame independent

  • but leopold made arrangements to gain control which was known as the congo free state for himself

    • he thought he was a humanitarian

    • he made it known that he intended to convert the indegenous people into christianity

    • wanted to bring them the glories of western education

    • was a lie and served as a cover for his brutal explotation of the congo

      • most notably rubber

    • belgian government took control and administerned themselves

    • movemnt from private control to state

diplomacy and warfare in africa

  • diplomacy: the act of making political agreements by means of dialouge and negotiation, not warfare.

  • an example is the berlin conference

  • european powers already beginning to cliam some parts of africa a fierce competition for african territory and it became known as the scramble for africa

  • state competition fueled imperialism

  • poeple agreed that if u hold the most territoy you have great power during tis period

  • europeans had technology and medicine to do this

    • escalated fast

  • otto von bismark claled the major european imperial powers to the berlin conference and they talked until almost the entire african continent was carved up into european colonial holdings

    • no african eladers participated in this

      • this led to drawing borders in africa that divided previously untied ethnic groups and brought together rival ethnic groups

        • this caused problems

  • some states used warfare

  • france in algeria

  • france was in debt to algeria because algeria supplied france with much of its wheat

  • algeria wanted to get paid so french sent a diplomat to negotiate some more time on the payments

  • algeria got so tense that the ruler hit the diplomat with a fly swat??!?!

  • the french replied by sending 35,000 troops to invade algeria and claimed the city and took more parts of north africa

  • the french prevaised and expanded their power into africa through warfare

settler colonies

settler colonies: a colony in which an imperial power claims an already inhabited territory and sends its own people to set up an outpost of their own society.

  • settler colonies were big in the previous period like the 13 birtish colonies in north america

  • the british went ahead and established settler colonies in the south pacific territories like australia and new zealand

    • once they had control massive waves of british settlers came in to populate the regions establishing a neo-european society and they introduced diseases that killed huge amounts of the indegiouns population

conquering neighboring territories

  • united states

    • because of the louisiana purchace and futher wars with mexico and spain in the 19th century the desire to expand westward into neighboring territories became so fervent that it became known as manifest destinty

    • manifest destiny: a calling to god to possess all the territory from the atlantic to the pacific ocean

      • practies forcible assimilation of Native American cultures, stripping them of their languages and traditions in an effort to integrate them into American society.

  • russia

    • pan-slavism: unite all slavic peoples under russian authority, including all who currently lived under ottoman and austrian rule

    • this ideology and the desire to achieve great power status on the world stage led to numerous campaigns to claim neighboring territory

    • for example they established a trading post all the way on the pacific coast

  • japan

    • they stood out because they were the one major non-western power joining the imperialism party

    • did this because of its rapid industrialization due to the meiji restoration

    • japan had laid thousands of miles of railroads and quickly modernized its military

    • japanese authorities decided to do what industrialized nations did and started to build an empire

    • as a result japan expanded its sphere of influence

causes of resistance

  • increasing questions about political authority

    • commitment to the civilizing mission

    • europeans and their scientific methods to put white people on top of the racial hierarchy —> led some of them to believe that they had a duty to improcve the “child races” that they were colonizing

    • many imperial powers introduced western style education to some folks under their imperial thumb

    • enlightnenment thought

    • those ideas caused the educated to question foriegn domination

  • growing sense of nationalism

    • when imperial powers imposed their will and their language and their culture on various colonized peoples, that had a way of inducing a sense of nationalism in the conquered peoples

    • this led many of them to resist colonization and fight for a state of their own

direct resistance

  • people fought back with weapons and violence

    • yaa asantewaa war in west africa

    • in the first half of the 19th century great britain was greedy to get its hands on more territory in west africa in order to expand their gold coast colony

      • they made no less than four attemps to conquer the asante kingdom in order acess the rihcc deposts of gold in their territory

    • the war of the golden stool

    • the assante possessed a golden stool which for them represented their cultural unity and whoever sat upon that stoll possessed the authority to rule their people

    • the british thought if they could find that stool and have someone sit on it then the asante would be ok with it

    • ya asante wa led her people in rebellion against the british with armed violence

    • she rallied the men to fight by shaming them and said if u guys dont fight the women will fight in ur place

creation of new states

  • cherokee nation at the edge of the united states

  • the us rebelled against the british imperial power and they won independence

  • they doubled their territory

  • as the us gained more territory they often clahsed with indegenous people

  • the weaponry of the us expelled various indegenous nations from their ancesteral lands

    • the cherokee responded to this by assimilatin to american culture

      • established a new state

religious rebellions

  • xhosa cattle killing movement in southern africa

  • imperial british trying to take over the territory of the xhosa people

  • they had better guns and better communications

  • this led to the british cliaming more and more of the xhosa territory until there wasnt enough land for the xhosa to survive

  • additionally the xhosa cattle were dying off because of coutner dieseases that may have come from europeans

  • and so in the middle of the century a religious movement stated gaining steam

  • it drove energy and it bound up in a prophecy. if the xhosa people slaughterd their cattle then new healthy cattle will rise up to replace them

  • afrter the slaughter the ancesteral debt of the xhosa would rise up and drive the european intruders from their land

  • the xhosa killed lots of their cattle

  • just led to their own starvation

  • british just took thier land cuz the xhosa are dumb

development of export economies

  • need for raw materials copper cotton rubber gold

  • imperial powers got more and more economies

  • Export Economies: Economies primarily focused on the export of raw materials or goods for distance markets

  • before these the people in africa or asia or the americas were subsistanece farmers

    • the farmers grew a vierty of foods that their families consued to survice

    • once the imperial powers showed up they reorganized colonial economies aorund the export of one or two cash crops

  • imperial powers fundamentally transformed colonial economies to serve their own interests, namely the extractction of natural resources of the production of industrial crops

causes of economic developments

  • imperial powers needed raw materials for industrial factories

    • economies on india on egypt britain for cotton

    • palm oil in west africa good for machines

      • used enslaved labor

      • colonial economies were dominating it for export

  • the need to supply food to growing urban centers

    • urbanization was a major effect of industrialization

    • more people to feed so they had to improt food form somehwere else

    • sugar and coffee and meat among the middle class

effects of economic development

  • profits from exports were used to purchase finished manufactured goods

    • british empire

      • colonial holdings doubled in 19th century

      • less concerned about adding territory than integrating into a netowkr oftrade

      • colonies provided a closed markey

        • inudstialized states neded other markets for outptu

      • whatever profits they gained they went to purshased finished manufactured goods

  • growing economic dependence of coloniak people on their imperial parents

    • the reorganization of colonial economy served only the interest of the colonizign overlords not the indegenous peoples

economic imperialism

  • Economic imperialism: The act of one state extending control over another state by economic means

    • the opium wars

      • influence of britain and france in china

      • chinawent from center to the edges

      • failure to industrialized —> left them vurnalrable to other powers

      • chinese restricted british tradeds to a single trading port and it caused briths trade imbalance

      • britihs silver was piling up in china but no chinese silver was making its way back to britain. chinese goods were in high demand by britain (tea,

      • britain innovated and created prodcuts that the chinese would love inorder to rectgy their imbalacnee

      • increased opium production in indian and illegally exported it to china

      • beause it was so addicted the chinese population was hooked into it and the chinese silver fianlly made its way into britain

      • chinese banned import of the drug and serized and destroyed opium shipments in the british trading port

      • the british were made so in retaliation the britihs showed up in force and began thef irst conflict of the opium wars

        • british taught china that industrialized military might wins every tmie

        • the britihs defeated and humilitated china

          • forced them to sign the treaty of nanjing

          • opeed up several trading ports to the british

          • gave them economic influence over the chinese

    • the qing dynasty weakened but a major reason was the taiping rebellion in the middle of the 19th century

    • relgious movement amount ethnic han that wanted to get ridof the manchu empire

    • second opium war

    • china could not qithstand industiral pwers

    • spehers of influence china was carved up

    • industralized powers didnt indusditralize china but they made china subsuverviate to their own intrests

migration:causes

  • demographc change

    • europe grrew really fast bc of medicnie

    • populatiosn living longer

    • increasing poverty so people migrated to find jobs

  • famine

    • agriculture primative in places they didnt industralzized

    • irish potato famine

    • millions of irish died

technologies

  • new mods of transpotation

  • railroad and steamship

  • mass of growth and cities (urbanization)

    • many migrants left homes in search of better opportunities, contributing to the rapid expansion of urban centers and shaping the demographic landscape of nations.

    • daily reality

economic causess

  • migration for work

    • voluntary migration

    • did it freely bc they suffering

    • lots of migrants in us fit that category

    • chinese immigrants foudn work in railwork

    • forced to

  • coereced and semi coerced labor

    • atlantic slave traede was still going

    • penal colonies

  • indentrued servidtue

    • industrialized states still needed cheap labor

effcts of migration

gender imbalance

  • majority of migrants were men. far more women than men in home societies

  • women took over men jobs

  • family structures in thoseplaces began to change

ethnic enclaves

  • ethnic enclave: a geographic area with a high concentration of people of the same ethnicity and culture within a foreign culture

  • provided a small outpost

    • provided sence of familiarity

  • cultural diffusian

nativism: a policy of protecting the interests of native born people over against the interests of immigrants

chinese exclusion act

anti chinese riots and chinese immigrants were banned from us

heimler live

big idea #1

Various ideologoies contributed to the growing development of imperialism in the period 1750-1900

unit 6 (heimler live)

  1. various ideologies contributed to the growing development of imperialism in the period of 1750-1900

  • one of the most significant effects of industrial revolution is a new wave fo empire builidng manly by europeans

  • ideas that were driving this new wave include

    • cultural ideologies, belief of the superioty of the white race

    • white mans burden

    • social darwinism

      • biological darwinism: similar but applies to how the strong or weak …

  1. imperial states employed different means of consolidating power in their empires are expanding their empire

  1. the new waves of imperialism during this period led to new waves of resistance from colonized peoples

  1. the growing need for imperial powers to extract raw materials and increase the food supply transformed the global economy

  1. industrializaed states and businesses within those states practiced economic imperialism primarily in asia and latin america

  1. various environmental and economic factors contributed to patterns of migration between 1750-1900

unit 7 (video)

The ottoman empire

  • By the end of the century many of their maritime and land-based empires would fall apart and give rise to new states

  • the decline of the ottoman empire

  • the young ottomans have been educated in western ideas and started calling for massive political change that would bring the ottoman empire into the democratic western powers

    • their authoritarian sultan actually agreed to some of those demands

    • allowed the creation of a parliament

      • they were threatened with war from russia

      • in response to the revival of authoritarianism another reform-minded group arose called the young turks

        • they called for a complete modernization of the ottoman empire in the vision of western europeans

          • nationalism —> ottomans envisioned as turks

            • the young turks went ahead and overthrew the sultan

    • ottoman reforms

      • secularization of schools and law codes

      • establishment of political elections

      • imposition of turkish language as the offical language of the empire

      • by implementing these nationalistic policies, they alienated many of the other minorities within the empire, not least the Arabs

        • as a result these groups experiences their own waves of nationalism which further fractured the empire

        • after the end of ww1 te sick man of europe would becom the dead man of europe

        • carved up into many states

  • the russian revolution

    • russia made some progress in industrialization by the end of the 19th century under the absolute tsar namely alexander the second and his sucessor nicoliss ii

    • the growing middle class that industrializtopm has created had begun to resent the tsar authoritarian policies and demanded more of a voice in government decisions

    • grievances of the working class who had suffered the burtal effects of state sponsored industrailziaton

    • grivances boiled over and we got the russian revolution

    • tsar smackdown with brutal force

    • nicholas accommodated some of their demands like constituion labor unions and political parties

    • world war one came alone

    • war and the continued difficulties of industrialization led to the russian revolution of 1917 which was led by marxist visonary vlenen who was the leader of a political group knowns as the bolsheviks

    • revolution was successful

    • soviet union was bron

  • collapse of qing china

    • tapiing rebllion

      • cost millions of lives and reshaped the political landscape in both regions, leading to significant changes in governance and social structures

      • put down by qing authorities

    • loss of opium wars

    • loss of sino japanese war

      • china was no match for industrializzed japan

  • society of righteous and harmonius fists led the boxer rebellion against qing

  • qing were broke

  • china emerged as a communist government under mao zedong

  • mexican revolution

    • mexico ruled by dictator (porforio dias)

      • he was outsted

    • emerged as a republic with a newly drafted constitution which enacted widesperead reforms that afddreased the grievances that had led to the revolutions in the first place

  • causes of ww1

  • MANIAC

  • militarism, aliances, nationalism, imperialism, assasination of archeduke franz ferdinand, conflict in the balkans

unit 7 (live)

  1. internal and external factors contributed to significant change in various states across the world after 1900

  1. ww1 was caused by combinmation of militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism

  1. governments used a variety of strategies to fight world war one including propaganda to mobilize their home fronts and use new weapons technology in the battle field

  1. following ww1, governments began to take a more prominent role in their nations’ economies

  1. world war two was caused by the unsustainable peace agreement of ww1, economic crisis, and the rise of fascist regimes, most notable, nazi germany.

  1. world war one was another total war, and totalitarian and democratic nations deployed all their nations’ resources to fight and win

  1. the rise of extremist groups led to the attempted destruction of certain populations through genocide or extreme violence

unit 8

big ideas are numbers

  1. the cold war was a decades long ideological struggle between the united states and the soviet union that shaped, to a significant degree, the geopolitics in the second half of the 20th century.

    • the cold war

      • two big themes: cold war and decolonization

      • begins right after ww2 ends

      • two superpowers emegre us and soviets

      • us vs soviets

      • cold war: where two wars are in a war together but they aren’t actually in a war. its like a competition. long stnading tention that could lead to violence

      • conflicting ideologies: the united states is characterized by democratic capitalism. soviet union by authoritarian communism

        • both of those ideologies wanted to get more converts across the world.

      • mutual mistrust between these superpowers: there was a handful of disagreements of the post war world (ww2) stalin claims most of eastern europe refused to allow democratic ellections althouhg it was agreeed led to lots of mistrust

      • mistrusts against germany, germany was on the losing side of world war two. it abt how germany should be treated in the post war era. soviets wanted to keep germany weak. western powers wanted a strong germany. rise of facist powers is bc of a weak germany

    • decolonization

      • led to the non-aligned movement

      • as the process of decolonization was bring new states into the world

      • west or europe wanted to influence new cstates about communism

      • new states that were decolonizing after years of being under the thumb of powers were like no we dont wanna get caught up in another state that is controlling us

      • some states resist of getting into that cold war calvary

      • this is the non aligned movement

      • began with indonesian presitsdent

      • countries with countries who were still sitll resisting colonial rule and who were in search of independnce

      • created themselves a little block who were neither soviet or neither us

      • together they were able to maintain that line in lots of cases

  2. the major effects of the cold war included an arms race, new military alliances, and proxy wars across the globe

    • arms race: both the united states and the soviet union spend lots of money spending money into developing larger and powerful new weapons/nuclear weapons

    • led to a lot of tension.

    • development of new military alliances

    • NATO:

      • a defensive alliance started by he us and joined by several other states in western europe

      • soviet response made the WARSAW PACT

    • proxy wars:

    • latin america and asia

      • a proxy war is when one thing stands for another

      • they would look out for smaller conflicts that represented their ideologies so they could get in those and fight without actually fighitng each other

    • in asia: korea and vietnam wars

      • in both wars the new countries were split by communist and anti communist forces that struggled for dominance in their new area of their independce

      • us backs anti communists

      • soviet union backs communists

        • both wars ended up was stalemates and hundreds of people died

    • proxy was in latin america was in Nicaragua

      • a group of socialist revolutionaries knwon as the Sandinistas overhtown the nicaraguan dicator and got support from cuba and from the soviets

      • in responce the us invest healvily in another group in nicagruaga namedthe contras

      • the us and the soviet union were getting involded in the war and made it much worse because of hte involvement

      • this conflict ended with a cease fire and military demobilization

    • in africa: angolian sivil war

      • us: non communist soviets: communist

      • this became a much longer and deadlier war because of the two superpowers

      • this proxy wars got much worse because it was a proxy for hte us and the soviet union

  3. during this period, some states adopted communist but non were more significant than china

  • revolution that established china as a republic

  • mao zedongs communist forces with aid from the soviet union were numerous enough to beat the nationalist party in china to become a communist states

  • mao communist policies:

    • collectivizaiton of agriculture (stalin did the same thing)

    • in china it was peaceful, blodless beause there was widesrpead support for communist party in china among the peasants

    • state control of the economy called the great leap forward

    • intedned to rapildy industrialize china through the heavy industry rural areas

    • china was in trouble i guessbecause they did not industrialize at the same pace as the western powers had

      • industrial goods in rural vs urban were on the poor quality

      • bad harvests

      • these polices that mao enacted led to starvation of 20-50 million chinese people

  • in africa (egypt)

    • british and the french built the suez canal with a lot of moeny

    • extremly strategic waterway for sea based trade into the indian ocean

    • egpytian leader proclaimed independence for egypt and nationalized the suez canal

    • british and french didnt like it and broguht isreali troops and invaded egypt in retaliantion

    • soviet union backed the scoialist

    • us told france to withdraw

  • in asia (vietnam)

    • after their colonial independece their communist government was quixckly established and began a program of land redistribution and classic communist move and a few wealthy land owners held all of vietnams agricultural land but under thisprogam their ownership was cancled and all of it was givein to the peasants

  1. the process of decolonization occured in one of two ways: negotiated independnce or armed conflict

  • example of decolonization of negotiated independence:

    • india (1885)

      • indians formed the indian national congress which partitioned the british for a greater degree of self rule

      • the british ignore a lot of those

      • after ww1 mohandus ghandi leads a resistance movement that was nonviolent and was characterized by civil disobedienace but after ww2 the british are basically broke and a large enough pro independence and parliament that they offically recognized indians independence in 1987

      • example of negotiated independenc

        • this does not mean it is NOT a bloodless independece

  • example of armed conflict:

    • algeria

    • hotspot for french settlers

      • lotsof french people migrating to algeria to settlte there anad live there

      • the french citizens lviing there when algeria agetates for indepdne ce were like no we like to live there

      • in 1954 algerian muslims formed national liberazation front that rebleled violenlty against the french and secrused independece

      • french respodned twht brutaality where french president delcarsed the end of the war and counts it as a lost for the french government and

      • algeria is independent

  1. the redrawing of political boundaries during decolonization led to conflict and population displacement

  • Israel

    • before ww1 palestine was part of the ottoman empire

    • ottomans were o the losing side of the war

    • palestine was transferred to britain under the mandate system and that caused significant problem

      • since the late 19th century a nationlistc ideology called zionism was growning among a lot of jews that were scattered across europe

        • to have a state of their own in palestine

      • during and after ww1, increasingly large waves of jews were migratning to palestine and the arab muslim population resistedthis population and after ww2 the united natoions declared that palenstined would be partitioned into 2 states

        • one for arabs and one for muslism

      • palestine is partiioned under authority of the united nations and jews were really happy about this and accepted this plan and declared independence but

      • palestineans took arms with isrealis and it was an on and off again war RIGHT NOW!!!

    • partitions NEVER GO WELL

  1. in newly independent states, governments often took a strong role in guiding economic life in order to promote their own growth and development

  • nassar in egpyt

    • in 1956 nassar nationalizes the suez canal and western powers invade and he gains sovietsuport to end the conflict

    • governmentt aking a strong role ine conomic wealth

  • green revolution in india

  • julius in tanzinia

    • former coloniesbecoming indiependent and new leadership taking a strong role in the economy

  1. movements to resis oppressive power structures multiplied in this period. somewhere characterized by non-violence, others by violence

  • nonviolence:

    • mohandas ghandi

      • homespun movement

        • pprotest of britains economic domenance of indias cotton industrry and he encouraged their followers to make their own clothes instead of britains

      • salt march

      • british imperial salt tax. ghandi and his followers walk hundred miles to indians west coast anad they statrt harvesting their own salt which was an illegall act and these demonstrations taken together played a significant role in indians independence later

    • martin luther king junior

      • from the united states

      • inspired by ghandi

      • took up the time to practice civil disobedience to protest americas racial segregation laws

      • did so and the montgomery bus boycott, sit ins,

      • these affected political change

      • congress passsing anti discrimination laws

      • trying to equalize white and black americans

    • nelson mandela (south africa)

      • system of apartheid

      • africans were denied basic rights

      • mandela was a prominent leader in the national congress and he under that organization led black south africans in acts of non biolent resistance that included strikes and boycotss and resistance

      • unlike ghandi and unlike martin luther king madela chagned his mind on the tactiscs on nonviolence and endured violent recistance

      • jailed for more than two decades for his leadership in his violent acts

      • upon his release he runs for president, wins the office, and that helps aouth african apartheid

    • when those powers engage with them and intensify the violence talking abt

    • agusto pinochet

      • led a military coup to overthrow the democratically elected president salvador alende who hpapned to be a marxist

      • with significant help from the united states pinochet overthrwos allende and sets himself up as a dictator, leading to years of repression, human rights violations, and economic transformation in Chile.

  1. the cold war ended because of us military development, the soviet union’s failed invasion of afghanistan, and the reform policies of mikhail gorbachev

  • the cold war ended because of the advances in us techonolgy and technological developments

    • in 1980 the us elected ronald regan who led the us federal goenmernt ot massive spending on military and tehcnological delveopment

    • as a result the soviets tried to keep up with the spedning and they couldnt because of their lagging economy it put them at disatvantage

  • the second reason it ended was because of soviet union failed invasion of afghanistan

    • in 1979 soviet troops invanded afghanistan in order to prop up the communist regime against afghan muslim groups that it sought to overthrow

    • hwoever the afghan rebels were supported and supplied by the united states and saudi arabia and pakistand

    • the soviets lost this war and the loss of the war further depressed the soviet ecnomy, whch was in no position to be depressed at all

  • the cold war ended because of the policies of mikhail gorbechove

    • he comes to power in the spvowt union and he introduces a significant reofrms

      • perestroika: restrustcing of the soviet economy to adress all the economic woes by reducing the levle of central planning from the soviet government

      • glasnost: openness. freedom of speech was bolstered and given new life. critism about the government was even more tolerated and people took massive advantage of that

      • gorbechev announced that the soviet union would no longer use military intervention to prop up communist govenrments in eastern europe that still belonged to the soviet union and when they heard that the sviet block were like wut were going independent so in respond to destabling feastures th e soviets legislatue voted to dissolve the cold war

unit 9 1900-present

  1. new technologies increased the speed of globilization and had widespread effects on the global population in the 20th and 21st centuries

  • new transportations and communication technologies are responsible for increasingly shrinking the world

    • communication:

      • raido, cellphone, internet

    • transportation

      • air travel

    • facilitates migration as they contact

      • shipping containers helped too

        • increased the rate of goods that can be shipping internationally futher interconnecting all states into a single global ecnomy

    • new energy:

      • petroleum, nuclear

        • had the effect of increasing worker productivity and increased the amount of goods that could be factored

    • medival advances:

      • birth control led to declining birth rate mostly western ecnomies, vaccines espeically in wealthhier nations,

    • agriculture

      • green revolution

        • trhough the process of contolled cross breeding scientists create new strands of wheat and grain that led to much more abundant harvests and that was espeically deployed as thrid world countries

        • formal colonial natiosnt aht were now independcent andd triyng ot get on their feet agian

  1. new and old diseases continue to post a threat in the age of globilization

  • diseases associated with poverty: malaria, tuberchelosis, cholera

    • only peple who had access to vaccines for those diseases were pople in wealthy countries

    • in poverced countries these diseaes contirnued to spread among populations

  • diseases that led to pandemics: ibola, aids, spanish flu pandemic of 1918.

    • social and economic consequenes

    • we are all so connected so it sread

    • as they spread they had serious demographic consequences

    • spanish flu caused social disruption, economic slowdown, etc

    • they created the occeansion for tehcnologial and medical adances inable to cure them

  • new diseases coming from old age (western/developed wolrd): ahlzimers, dementia, heart disease, etc

    • acess to medications

    • better diets

    • this means they are living longer

    • as a result of living longer, new disease are starting to prop up

  1. globilization has created some significant environmental problems with various attemped solutions

  • deforestation

    • too much people to feed

    • forests are being clered at an alarming rate to make room for more farm land

  • desertification

    • when fertile land becomes desert like because of deforestation and application of harmful chemicals to the land

    • when its deseriified it can no longer be productive for agriculture

  • decline in ari quality

    • great smog in londan in 1950

    • fog combined with industrial coal ambitions and it led to several days worth of toxic air/fog and it killed ten thousand people and it make lots of people very. sick

      • dealing with environmental consewunece as a result of the world that we lvie in

  • increasing consumption of fresh water

    • way more water is needed for farming in order to feed the global population

    • a lot of impoverished nations dont have access to clean dirnking water

  • incerasing global temperature/ climate change

    • as a result of industrialization, carbon emissions that are released into the atmosphere increase the global temperature overtime and that can cause an awful lot of apocitlitpic problems

    • kyoto protocal

    • paris agrement

      • nations who agreed to be members of tese agreements agree to limit their carbon emisions

  1. both the nature and scope of the globilized economy have changed since 1900

  • proliferation off free market economies

    • united states we have economy under ronald regan

    • britah marget thatcher

    • both of them emphazsied free market economices thorugh the deregulation of business and tax cuts

  • rise of knowledge economies

    • wealthier countries did stuff in knowelge work

    • they odn tmkar things anymore

    • facilitated the making of things

    • egage in services rather tahn actually making things

    • hige for the economy

    • less delveoped coutrnies are becomng the manufactirng

    • thats how the world economy works

  • rise of multinational corporations

    • incorporated in one country but manufacted in another world

      • for example nestle, a Swiss company, sources materials from various countries for production, which highlights the complexities of global supply chains and labor distribution.

  • rise of regional and free trade agreements

    • reduced barriers totrade

    • for example tarfifs

    • NAFTA; betwen canada usand mexico

  1. since 1990, increasing globilization had led to calls for reform in human rights and economic inequality

  • reforms for human rights on gender, caste,

  1. after 1900, culture became increasingly globalized

  2. despite all the benefits of globilization, there have also been significant resistancce movements against its effects

  3. globilization has changed the way nations and states interact across the world