[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