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Comprehensive Study Guide for Final Exam

The document is a comprehensive study guide for a final exam covering various historical topics, including the Second Industrial Revolution, imperialism, World Wars, and the Cold War. It outlines key events, figures, and concepts such as the Bessemer process, the Suez Canal, and the rise of totalitarian regimes. Additionally, it discusses the impacts of decolonization and the formation of new political orders post-World War II.

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Comprehensive Study Guide for Final Exam

The document is a comprehensive study guide for a final exam covering various historical topics, including the Second Industrial Revolution, imperialism, World Wars, and the Cold War. It outlines key events, figures, and concepts such as the Bessemer process, the Suez Canal, and the rise of totalitarian regimes. Additionally, it discusses the impacts of decolonization and the formation of new political orders post-World War II.

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Study guide Final Exam ▪ Algeria

o Great Britain
All warm-up/reviews since spring break!! ▪ South Africa
▪ Egypt
9.1 The Second Industrial Revolution • Suez Canal
- Second Industrial Revolution o Belgium
o Steel ▪ Congo Free State
▪ Bessemer process o Italy
o Internal combustion engine ▪ Ethiopia
▪ Automobile • Menelik II
o Electricity • Battle of Adwa (1896)
▪ Thomas Edison - European Powers in Conflict
- Japan o Asia
o Commodore Mathew Perry ▪ The Great Game
▪ Convention of Kanagawa ▪ Japan
o Meiji Restoration • First Sino-Japanese War
▪ Abolish samurai and daimyo • Russo-Japanese War
▪ Zaibatsu o Korea
• Mitsubishi ▪ Qing Dynasty
▪ Public schools • Self-strengthening movement
- “The Great Divergence” • Open Door policy
- India o The Pacific
o Deindustrialize ▪ United States
- China • Hawaii
o Opium Wars
• Spanish-American War
▪ “the century of humiliation”
o Cuba
o Taiping Rebellion
o Philippines
▪ Hong Xiuquan
9.4 Exploitation and Resistance
- Congo
9.2 Motives and Means of Imperialism
o Leopold II
- Imperialism
o Rubber plantations
- Motives
o Force Publique
o Raw Materials and Markets
- China
o The Civilizing Mission
o Boxer Rebellion
▪ Social Darwinism
▪ Empress Cixi
▪ “The White Man’s Burden”
- India
- Means
o Indian National Congress
o Medical
• Mohandas Gandhi
▪ Quinine
o Steamboats
10.1 Inventions, Innovations, and
o Telegraph lines
Mechanization
o Weapons
- The Industrial Workplace
▪ Maxim gun
o Assembly line
9.3 Colonial Empires
o Long hours, low pay
- Africa
o Taylorism
o Scramble for Africa
- Family in the Industrial Age
▪ Berlin Conference
o Working class men and women
o France
o The Factory Act 1833 • “blank check”
o Demographic transition - The World at War
10.2 Life in the Industrial City o Allies
- Benefits ▪ Great Britain, France, Russia
o Entertainment o Central Powers
- Challenges ▪ Germany, Austria-Hungary,
o Overcrowding Ottoman Empire
o Waste (pollution) 11.3 Total War
o Disease - The Unending Horror of War
▪ Cholera o Weapons of war
10.5 Regulation, Reform, and Revolutionary ▪ Artillery
Ideologies ▪ Machine guns
- Urban reforms ▪ Barb wire
o Florence Kelly o Trench warfare
o Central Park New York ▪ No-man’s-land
o Temperance ▪ Poison gas
o ▪ Tanks
- Revolutionary ideologies ▪ Airplanes
o Socialism o At sea
o Marxism ▪ British blockade
o Social democrats ▪ U-boats
o Anarchism • Lusitania
o “shell shock”
11.1 Inventions, Innovations, and - The United States Enters the War
Mechanization o Zimmermann Telegram
- Treaties and Alliances - Colonies, Race, and the War
o Triple Alliance o Colonial troops
▪ Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy o ANZAC
o Triple Entente 11.4 War on the Homefront
▪ Russia, France, Britain - Nations Remade for War
- Colonies and Conflict o War Industries Board (WIB)
o Germany o War bonds
▪ Morocco 11.5 The War Ends
- The Growth of Militaries - Peace, Land, and Bread
o German/British Navy o Russian Revolution (1917)
o Schlieffen Plan ▪ Abdication
11.2 The Collapse of the Ottomans and the ▪ Vladimir Lenin
Coming of War • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- The “Sick Man of Europe” ▪ Soviet Union
o Ottoman Empire - The Final Year
- The Balkans o Influenza
o Nationalism o Armistice
- The Spark That Lit the Powder Keg
o Archduke Franz Ferdinand 12.1 Recovering from World War I
▪ Gavrilo Princip - The Treaty of Versailles
o Austria and Serbia o Woodrow Wilson
▪ Russia ▪ Fourteen Points
▪ Germany • League of Nations
• Self-Determination o Indian National Congress
o Poland, Yugoslavia ▪ Mohandas Gandhi
o Germany • Civil disobedience and
▪ Reparations nonviolence
▪ Military • Salt March
▪ Territory (colonies)
▪ “war guilt” 13.1 An Unstable Peace
12.2 The Formation of the Soviet Union - Asia for Asians
- The Birth of the Soviet Union and the Rise o Manchuria (1931)
of Stalin ▪ Manchukuo
▪ Union of the Soviet Socialists o China
Republics (U.S.S.R.) ▪ Chinese Civil War
• Soviet Union • Guomindong (Nationalists)
o Joseph Stalin o Chaing Kai Shek
- The First Five-Year Plan • Chinese Communist Party
o Collectivization (CCP)
▪ Kulaks o Mao Zedong
▪ Famine o Japanese invasion of China (1937)
o Political purges ▪ Rape of Nanking
12.3 The Great Depression o Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity
- Economic Collapse Sphere
o The Great Depression - Peace in Our Time
▪ 1929 stock market crash o Italy
- Worldwide Woe ▪ Ethiopia
o New Deal o Germany
- Communism and Authoritarianism ▪ Austria
o Fascism + Totalitarianism ▪ Sudetenland
o Italy • Munich Pact
▪ Benito Mussolini o Appeasement
▪ Blackshirts o Nevile Chamberlin
o Spain ▪ Antisemitism
▪ Spanish Civil War • Nuremburg Laws
• Francisco Franco • Kristallnacht
o Germany ▪ Lebensraum
▪ Nazi Party • German-Soviet Nonaggression
• Adolf Hitler Pact
o Chancellor 1933 - War in Europe
• Enabling Act o Germany invades Poland
▪ Schutzstaffel (SS) ▪ September 1, 1939
▪ Defying Versailles ▪ Blitzkrieg
12.4 Old Empires and New Colonies ▪ Britain + France
- To the Victors Go the Spoils o Germany invades of France
o Middle East ▪ Dunkirk
▪ Mandate system ▪ Vichy France
• Balfour Declaration o Anti-Comintern Pact (Axis powers)
- An Independent India ▪ Germany, Italy, Japan
o Amritsar Massacre - Sleeping Giants
o Battle of Britain (1940) o North Atlantic Treaty Organization
o United States (NATO)
▪ Neutrality Acts o Warsaw Pact
o Soviet Union - Cold War Strategies
▪ Operation Barbarossa o Space race
- The Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941) ▪ Sputnik
13.2 Theaters of War ▪ N.A.S.A.
- Europe and Africa 14.2 The Spread of Communism
o Battle of Stalingrad - Chinese Revolution
o Tehran Conference o Chinese Civil War
▪ Joseph Stalin – Soviet Union ▪ Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
▪ Winston Churchill – Great Britain • Mao Zedong
▪ Franklin Roosevelt – United States ▪ People’s Republic of China (1949)
- The Holocaust - Two Koreas
o Einsatzgruppen o North + South Korea
o Ghettos o Korean War (1950 – 1953)
o Wansee Conference (1942) ▪ United Nations
▪ Final Solution - death camps ▪ China
• Auschwitz ▪ Stalemate + peace
13.4 Out of the Ashes - Proxy wars
- Victory in Europe and Plans for Peace - Southeast Asia
o D-Day o Vietnam
▪ Normandy o Ho Chi Minh
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki ▪ Vietminh
o Iwo Jima and Okinawa o French recolonization
▪ Kamikaze o North/South Vietnam
o Hiroshima ▪ The Vietnam War (1959 – 1975)
o Nagasaki • N.L.F. (Vietcong)
- The Human Toll - China
o The Aftermath: Europe o Great Leap Forward
▪ Nuremburg Trials o Cultural Revolution
14.3 The Non-Aligned Movement
14.1 The Cold War Begins - India
- Cold War o Independence 1947
- The Superpowers Divided ▪ India + Pakistan
o United States – - Israel + Palestine
Capitalism/Democracy o British mandate
o Soviet Union - Communism o 1947 UN plan
- Containment o First Arab-Israeli War (1948)
- The Truman Doctrine - Egypt
o Turkey/Greece o Gamal Abdel Nasser
- Domino theory o Suez Crisis 1956
- The Marshall Plan ▪ Second Arab-Israeli War
- Western and Eastern Blocs o Third Arab-Israeli War (1967)
o Berlin Germany ▪ Six Day War
▪ Blockade o Fourth Arab-Israeli War (1973)
▪ Airlift
14.4 Global Tensions and Decolonization • Taliban

- Vietnam - Ronald Reagan


o Ngo Dinh Diem o Arms race
o United States
o 1975 unification - Mikhail Gorbachev
o Solidarity
- Decolonization o Perestroika
o Glasnost
14.5 A New World Order
- Falling of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- The Collapse of Communism o Eastern Bloc
o Afghanistan
▪ Soviet invasion (1979) - Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
▪ Mujahideen

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