Unit 7

[THE SHIFTING of STATE power AFter 1900] 7.1 : States falling apart

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

  • Young Turks: Ottoman Modernization

    • Nationalism → Ottoman Envisioned as Turks

      • Ottoman Reforms

        • Secularization of schools & law codes

        • Establishment of political elections

        • Imposition of Turkish Language

The Russian Revolution

  • introduced: Constitution, labor unions, political parties

    The war and the continued difficulties of industrialization then led to the Russian Revolution of 1917 which was led my Marxist visionary Vladimir Lenin who was the leader of a political group known as the Bolsheviks

Collapse of Qing China

  • Qing Problems

    • Taiping Rebellion

      • Put down by Qing authorities

      • Cost million of lives

    • Loss of Opium wars

    • Loss of Sino-japanese War

      • China was no match for industrialized japan

    • Boxer rebellion

The Mexican Revolution

  • Porfirio Diaz

[The CAUSES of WW 1, Explained] 7.2: M.A.I.N CAUSES

Militarism

  • Cause of WW1

The Alliance System

  • Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy and Hungarian

  • Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia

    Mobilization Time Tables for Railroads

Imperialism & it’s effects

  • One of the most potent causes for imperialism was the desire to project power on the world stage

Nationalism

A Minor Assassination

[How WW 1 was fought] 7.3: Trenches and Stalemates

How the War was fought

  • Total War

    A war which required the mobilization of a country’s entire population, both military and civilian, in order to fight

    • Propaganda

  • Total War Strategies

    • New military technologies made World War 1 one of the deadliest wars in human history

      • Machine Guns

      • Chemical Gas

      • Tanks

    • Trench Warfare

The End of the war

  • Treaty of Versailles

[The GLOBAL ECONOMY Between the World Wars] 7.4: Economic Disaster!

German Hyperinflation

  • German had to pay back a lot of money → printed more money

Soviet Economics

  • Five Year Plans

    • Aimed to Multiply SOviet

[Unresolved Tensions after World War] 7.5: No freedom for colonies

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