Global History

Potsdam Conference: Conference held between the US, UK, and USSR leaders to plan for postwar peace

Gulag System: concentration/ correctional camps in the Soviet Union. This is what we read about for summer reading. Where prisoners went and a part of the communist agenda

Treaty of Versailles: Peace treaty of WWI

War Guilt Clause: clause in the treaty of versailles saying that Germany would pay for most to all damages and reconstruction fees. 

Balfour Declaration: Letter from the UK saying it supports the establishment of the Jewish in Palestine

Mandate System: Granted the League of Nations control over German and Ottoman territories

Mao Zedong: leader of communist China from the 1920s to 1970s. 

Unconditional Surrender: A forced surrender with no guarantees, reassurances, or promises are given to the surrendering party. Japan was forced to unconditionally surrender due to the dropping of the atomic bombs

Karl Marx: the father of communism, a new governmental style that strived for true equality and equity

Sykes-Picot Agreement: treaties between multiple european nations to divide their individual control over the ottoman empire

Provincial Government: a governmental void/standstill directly after a collapse of a major government. Russia between Nicolas II and Lenin. Total anarchy and chaos

*Chinese Civil War: Split between the Republic of China and Communist China

Russian Civil War: a public/multi party revolution to overthrow the pre exxisting soviet government

Deng Xiaoping: statesmen of the Republic of China from the 1970s to the 1990s

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: the revolution in which the working class overthrows the Bourgeois and changes the existing government. Goes along with a lot of communist movements. 

Great Leap Forward: Mao’s plan for the CCP for a more productive agricultural, industrialization, and rebranding of the Chinese work system. 

Century of Humiliation: after the fall of dynastic China, the economy was in shreds and there was little to no hope of rehabilitation. 

Opium War: China resistance to western powers expansion of modernization. Britain would manipulate trade for china's goods for high concentrations of opium, which was illegal at the time. 

Taiping Rebellion: China's Largest Civil War

Boxer Rebellion: anti imperialist revolution from northern China that fought against trade, industrialization, and other western effects

Meiji Restoration: The restoration of the imperial system in china after the Taiping rebellion

Zaibatsu: Financial and industrial growth in Japan which led to it increasing in power over the two world wars.

1905 Russian Revolution: political and social revolution against unjust ruling class. 

Vladimir Lenin and Bolshevik Party: The very beginning of the Soviet Communist party, starting in WWI 

Armenian Genocide: the erasure of the armenian population of the Ottoman Empire in WWI

Young Turks (CUP): revolutionary parties in the ottoman and turkish empires

Franz Ferdinand: next in line for serbian rule, shot by the Black Hand, an ottoman political party, and the starter of the first world war. 

NATO v Warsaw Pact: the Warsaw pact was the defense treaty for most of eastern europe (soviets, ottomans, other eastern countries) and it was opposed to the Nato which was a defense treaty with western countries. Main start of WWI as well