AP World History Unit 7: Global Conflict Latest 2022 Already Passed

AP World History Unit 7: Global Conflict Latest 2022 Already Passed Russian Revolution of 1917 ✔✔two revolutions, the first of which, in February (March, New Style), overthrew the imperial government and the second of ...

AP World History Unit 7: Global Conflict Latest 2022 Already Passed Russian Revolution of 1917 ✔✔two revolutions, the first of which, in February (March, New Style), overthrew the imperial government and the second of which, in October (November), placed the Bolsheviks in power. Mexican Revolution ✔✔(1910-1920 CE) Fought over a period of almost 10 years form 1910; resulted in ouster of Porfirio Diaz from power; opposition forces led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. Triple Alliance ✔✔An alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy in the years before WWI. Triple Entente ✔✔Britain, France, Russia Central Powers ✔✔Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire Allied Powers (WWI) ✔✔Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States Total War ✔✔A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort Propaganda ✔✔Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. Great Depression ✔✔starting with collapse of the US stock market in 1929, period of worldwide economic stagnation and depression. Heavy borrowing by European nations from USA during WW1 contributed to instability in European economies. Sharp declines in income and production as buying and selling slowed down. Widespread unemployment, countries raised tariffs to protect their industries. America stopped investing in Europe. Lead to loss of confidence that economies were self adjusting Five Year Plan ✔✔Stalin's economic policy to rebuild the Soviet economy after WWI. tried to improve heavy industry and improve farm output, but resulted in famine The New Deal ✔✔A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression. Fascist Corporatist economy ✔✔Involved management of sectors of the economy by government or privately controlled organizations League of Nations ✔✔an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations League of Nations Mandates ✔✔A system established after WWI whereby a nation officially administered a territory) mandate_ on behalf of the League of Nations. Thus, France administered Lebanon and Syria as mandates, and Britain administered Iraq and Palestine. Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere ✔✔Japan offered to liberate Southeast-Asian countries from western colonial rule but instead used them as conquered land for natural resources Indian National Congress ✔✔A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class, and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi, appealing to the poor. Treaty of Versailles ✔✔the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans Fourteen Points ✔✔A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I. Fascism ✔✔A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition Totaltarian ✔✔referring to a form of government in which one person or party holds absolute control Adolf Hitler ✔✔Austrian born Dictator of Germany, implement Fascism and caused WWII and Holocoust. Joseph Stalin ✔✔Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition Benito Mussolini ✔✔Fascist Dictator of Italy that at first used bullying to gain power, then never had full power. Atomic Bomb ✔✔bomb dropped by an American bomber on Hiroshima and Nagasaki destroying both cities Fire bombing ✔✔Bombs dropped on Germany and Japan with intentions to spread fires and take down cities Winston Churchill ✔✔A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West. Franklin D. Roosevelt ✔✔President of the US during Great Depression and World War II Genocide ✔✔Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group Holocaust ✔✔A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled. Armenian Genocide ✔✔Assault carried out by mainly Turkish military forces against Armenian population in Anatolia in 1915; over a million Armenians perished and thousands fled to Russia and the Middle East. Cambodian Genocide ✔✔Pol Pot eliminated educated, artists, religious, and minorities Rwandan Genocide ✔✔The killing of more than 500,000 ethnic Tutsis by rival Hutu militias in Rwanda in 1994. The conflict between the dominant Tutsis and the majority Hutus had gone on for centuries, but the suddenness and savagery of the massacres caught the United Nations offguard. U.N. peacekeepers did not enter the country until after much of the damage had been done. Ukranian Famine ✔✔Joseph stalin took away food from the people of Ukraine, which resulted in the death of millions of people Bolsheviks ✔✔A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917 Institutional Revolutionary Party ✔✔(PRI) the political party introduced in 1929 in Mexico that helped to introduce democracy and maintain political stability for much of the 20th century Franz Ferdinand ✔✔Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major catalyst for WWI.