World History

The End of Empire: The Global South On The Global Stage (1914-present): this chapter starts off with national leader Nelson Mandela. He was "South Africa`s nationalist leader, first uttered these words in 1964 for his trial for treason, sabotage, and conspiracy to overthrow the apartheid government of his country. Convicted of those charges, he spent the next twenty- seven years in prison"(975, Strayer). As this chapter went on topics like the struggles for independence came up. "in 1900, European colonial empires in Arica, Asia, the Caribbean region, and the Pacific Ocean appeared as enduring features of the worlds political Landscape. Well before the 20th century, they were gone." (976, Strayer) There is a timeline on the page (977, Strayer)  that helped me a lot. It summarized all of the events like in 1915 Gandi comes back to India after being in South Africa, 1923-1938 Turkeys secular modernized intiaated under Kernal Ataturk, 1928 muslim brotherh...

Revolution, socialism, and Global conflict- The rise and fall of world communism  (1917-present)  This chapter starts off with discussing a joke between an Englishman, a Frenchman, and a Soviet Russian. Each person said that Adam and Eve were from their country. It pretty much says that these communist leaders think only their country matters. A quote that stood out to me relating to communism was "In the century communism had been greeted with enthusiasm by many people - in Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, and elsewhere- as a promise of liberation from inequality, oppression, exploitation, and backwardness" (Strayer, 929). This shows the beginning of communism and how it started off as a positive thing.  The people of the country thought it was the solution to all their countries problems. The leaders of these nations convinced the people it was the right thing to do. These leaders kind of answered all their prayers. Global Communism Looking at modern co...

This section starts off with explaining a new part of history. We have been focusing on colonialism and now we will be looking at the wars in Europe, Japanse attack on Pearl Harbor, the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the communist revolution in China, The Cuban Missile crisis/ the Cuban revolution, Latin America from military dictatorships to democracy, Allende and socialism in Chile, "Brazilian miracle",Korean war,  Iran Revolution, end of Apartheid, Israel revolution, African independence from colonialism, Indian Pakistani independence, Indonesian independence,  the rise and falling of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe, European Union, Arab uprising, Vietnam war, U.S civil rights movement, Oritests against WTO, Mass migration to the United States, and 9/11 terroist attacks. (1914-2015). Chapter 20  Thee collapse at the center: world war, depression, and the Rebalancing of Global power. All of this took place from 1914 through the 1970s. The first...

Chapter 19 This chapter is about China, the Ottoman Empire, Japan, Persia (now Iran), Ethiopia, and Siam (currently Thailand), and Latin America. All of these places tried to get out of European colonial powers. Europe did not treat the countries they had power over right. They would change everyone's cultures to the European ways. This chapter looks closely specifically at China. It goes into Chian`s century crisis with King George III of Britain. The British took over pretty much everything. By Britain taking over it made China`s inner conflict worse. Then on top of that, they had Western pressures to become more modern and go by western philosophies... which failed. Then it goes on to the Lin zexu and confronting the Opium trade. The Opium trade is when western countries exported Opium grown in India and sold it to China. The Europeans used the profits from the sale of opium to buy Chinse goods (porcelain, silk, tea) were all popular in the West.  It goes on to talk about th...

3-14-18 Colonial Encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania  (1750-1914) This chapter is about the colonial era. African Americans, Asians, and Pacific Islanders were ruled by the British, Fench, Germans, Italians, Belgians, Portuguese, Russians, or Americans. All of this took place in the 19th century. This chapter went over all of the European political views and ideas that took over the world during the colonial era.  Industry and Empire. Strayer mentions the impact the Industrial Revolution had. It brought a new look to the economic needs of the nations. Europe needed raw materials like Meat from Argentina, Wheat from American Midwest and Southern Russia, bananas from Central America, rubber from Brazil, and cocoa and palm oil from West Africa.  Strayer states: "Promises to solve the class conflicts of an industrializing society while avoiding revolution or the serious redistribution of wealth" when explaining imperialism. This philosophy was popular in all o...

Michelle Curran Professor Andrews Midterm Study Guide 1) What does it mean to be “modern”? What major events or ideas defined or began the Modern era? - 2) What was the Great Dying? Was this a genocide? Was it a cultural genocide? - 3) Why did Europeans come to the Americas, and why did they have an advantage over potential competitors & over native peoples? Cite 5-6 reasons in your answer. - 4) What was unique about slavery as it was practiced in North America as compared to Brazil and the Caribbean? - 5) The three major regions colonized in the Americas as we compared them in class were Spanish South America, Brazil/Caribbean, and North America. Who were the colonizers in these three regions? What products or industries drove these economies? Which groups of people did the labor? What were the resulting long-term demographic changes in these different regions? - 6) How did European exploitation during the colonial era pave the way for economic disparities bet...