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📘 Social Studies 9: 4th Quarter Concise Notes

S.Y. 2024–2025 | Modern Patterns of World History

🏛 I. THE GROWTH OF NATIONALISM

The Conservative Order

  • Post-Napoleon Europe aimed to restore monarchies and suppress revolutions.

  • Congress of Vienna (1815): Redrew European boundaries, restored monarchs.

  • Concert of Europe: An alliance to maintain balance of power and prevent revolutions.

Ideologies:

Conservatism

Liberalism

Nationalism

Emphasized monarchy, obedience, tradition

Promoted civil liberties, constitutional government

Belief in unity based on common language, culture, identity

Revolutions of 1848

Country

Key Events

France

Protests led to Second Republic under Louis Napoleon

Germany

Frankfurt Assembly failed to unify Germany

Austria

Metternich resigned; Hungarian revolt crushed

Italy

Uprisings for unification; suppressed by Austria

The Eastern Question & Crimean War

  • Ottoman Empire weakened → called the “sick man of Europe.”

  • Crimean War: Britain and France fought Russia to prevent its expansion; weakened Concert of Europe.

National Unification

Italy

Germany

Cavour (North) & Garibaldi (South) unified under King Victor Emmanuel II

Bismarck used “Realpolitik” and wars (vs. Denmark, Austria, France) to unify Germany under Prussian King William I

The European State (Late 1800s)

Country

Government Form

Britain

Functional two-party system (Liberal vs. Conservative)

France

Third Republic with frequent gov’t changes

Germany

Authoritarian under Kaiser Wilhelm II

Austria-Hungary

Emperor ruled mostly by decree

Russia

Nicholas II attempted reforms, but remained autocratic

International Rivalries & “Winds of War”

  • Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

  • Triple Entente: Britain, France, Russia

  • Balkan Crisis: Rising nationalism, Serbian aggression, and Austro-Russian tensions escalated instability.

⚔ II. THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH-CENTURY CRISIS: WAR AND REVOLUTION

Road to World War I

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (June 28, 1914) by Gavrilo Princip triggered the war.

  • Factors:

    • Nationalism: Ethnic tensions, imperial rivalries

    • Economics: Trade wars, colonial competition

    • Armaments: Military build-up, conscription

    • Militarism: “First strike” advantage mindset

1914–1915: Stalemate

Front

Details

Western

Battle of Marne → trench warfare, cyanide gas

Eastern

Russia lost at Tannenberg; Gallipoli Campaign failed

Shifts in the War

  • Italy joined Allies, Ottoman Empire supported Central Powers, Bulgaria joined Central Powers.

  • Trench warfare → massive casualties, “No Man’s Land” filled with death and disease.

  • T.E. Lawrence encouraged Arab revolts against Ottomans.

  • Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare → USA entered war.

  • Propaganda mobilized public opinion.

  • Women entered factories, gained voting rights in UK (1918).

Crisis in Russia

  • Tsarist regime collapsed amid WWI disasters.

  • March Revolution (1917): Tsar abdicated; Kerensky led provisional gov’t but failed to exit war.

  • Bolsheviks under Lenin promised “Peace, Land, Bread.”

  • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Russia exited WWI.

Civil War in Russia

Reds

Whites

Bolsheviks (Trotsky’s Red Army)

Anti-communists + foreign powers

  • Bolsheviks won, Lenin declared dictatorship.

  • Used Cheka (secret police), war communism, and executed the royal family.

End of World War I

  • 1918: Germany launched final offensive → failed.

  • Armistice signed November 11, 1918.

Uncertain Peace: Treaty of Versailles

  • War Guilt Clause blamed Germany.

  • Reparations imposed.

  • League of Nations established.

  • Anger over treaty led to rise of fascism and communism.

  • Great Depression (1930s): fueled political extremism.

🌍 III. THE CRISIS DEEPENS: WORLD WAR II

Dictatorial Regimes

Leader

Country

Features

Stalin

USSR

5-Year Plans, collectivization, totalitarianism

Hitler

Germany

Mein Kampf, Aryan supremacy, Gestapo, SS

Mussolini

Italy

Fascism, Blackshirts, “Il Duce”

Hirohito

Japan

Militarism, puppet emperor, Tojo’s control

Key Terms

Term

Meaning

Mein Kampf

Hitler’s book; calls for Aryan supremacy, Lebensraum

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Japan’s plan to dominate Asia

Blitzkrieg

German “lightning war” strategy

Luftwaffe

German air force

Einsatzgruppen

Nazi death squads

Final Solution

Nazi genocide of Jews

Path to WWII

  • Germany annexed Austria and Sudetenland.

  • Munich Conference: Britain & France appeased Hitler.

  • Sept 1, 1939: Germany invaded Poland → WWII began.

Major Events of WWII

  • Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan

  • Allied Powers: USA, UK, USSR

  • Battle of Stalingrad: Turning point vs. Nazis

  • D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy

  • Battle of the Bulge: Final German offensive

  • Hitler commits suicide (April 30, 1945)

  • Germany surrenders (May 7, 1945)

  • Japan bombed (Hiroshima & Nagasaki) → surrenders

End of the War

  • WWII ends in 1945

  • Total casualties: ~70 million

  • US emerges as superpower

  • Cold War begins

🧠 Study Tips

  • Use acronyms (e.g., M.A.I.N. for WWI causes)

  • Create a timeline of events (WWI → Interwar → WWII)

  • Compare dictators (Stalin vs. Hitler vs. Mussolini)

  • Understand effects of Versailles Treaty, Great Depression, and Appeasement

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