SOCIALISM – all people are workers in classless society – ALL ARE EQUAL – EQUALLY POOR
WAR COMMUNISM –
GLASNOST-GORBACHEV’S OPENESS POLICY TO SAVE USSR
PERESTROIKA – GORBACHEV’S ECONOMIC POLICY TO SAVE USSR
INDIA
Key to life – water
CHINA-ONLY COUNTRY WITH A P OPULATION LARGER THA INDIA’S
KNOW WHO MAKES UP INDIA’S CASTE SYSTEM ______
MAJOR RELIGIONS OF INDIA: Sikhism, JAINISM, BUDDHISM, ISLAM, HINDU
British took control of India by: DIPLOMACY, SUPERIOR WEAPONS, TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE DIVERSE CULTURES
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE – REFUSAL TO DISOBEY UNJUST LAWS
CONFLICT BETWEEN HINDUS AND MUSLIMS AT INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE
TO SOLVE CONFLICT PAKISTAN WAS CREATED FOR THE MUSLIMS AND INDIA FOR THE HINDUS
INDIA DIVIDED PAKISTAN -THE WEST OF INDIA WAS PAKISTAN, EAST PAKISTAN WAS ON THE EAST
EAST PAKISTAN GAINED THEIR INDEPENDENCE IN 1971 AFTER YEARS OF CONFLICT WITH BEING TREATED INFERIOR BY PAKISTAN – EAST PAKISTAN BECAME BANGLADESH
INDIA IS THE LARGEST DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD
MIDDLE EAST
MONOTHEISTIC – BELIEF IN ONE GOD – RELIGIONS FOUNDED IN THE MIDDLE EAST ARE MONOTHEISTIC, CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM, AND ISLAM
POLYTHEISTIC – BELIEF IN MANY GODS
MUHAMMAD – FOUNDER OF ISLAM, AT HIS DEATH THERE WAS CONFLICT AS TO WHO WOULD LEAD
ISLAM DIVIDED – SUNNI – ANY HOLY PERSON COULD LEAD. SHIA – A DESCENDENT OF MUHAMMAD ONLY LEADER
OTTOMAN – GREATEST MUSLIM EMPIRE CONTROLING MIDDLE EAST UNTIL AFTER WWI,
OTTOMAN EMPIRE ENDED AFTER WWII
ARMENIANS – TURKS COMMITTED GENOCIDE AGAINST THIS ETHNIC GROUP
WWI – END OF WAR MANY COUNTRIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST BECAME MANDATES -TERRITORY ADMINISTERED BY ANOTHER COUNTRY
SYKES -PICOT AGREEMENT –BRITAIN & FRANCE AGREE TO DIVIDE ARAB LANDS AMONGST THEMSELVES
BALFOUR DECLARATION – BRITAIN PROMISES JEWS A HOMELAND IN PALESTINE
PALESTINIANS AND KURDS – NO HOMELAND IN THE MIDDLE EAST
REVIEW PARTITION PLAN ON REVIEW SHEET – CONFLICT IS OVER LAND - ISRAEL
IMPORTANCE OF SUEZ CANAL – INCREASED TRADE FOR EUROPE
WEST BANK, GAZA, GOLAN HEIGHTS, SINAI PENINSULA, & EAST JERUSALEM WERE LOST BY THE ARABS TO THE JEWS AFTER THE SIX DAY WAR- THESE AREAS BECAME KNOW AS THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN IRAN HAD 66 AMERICANS HELD AS HOSTAGES FOR 444 DAYS
UNITED STATES INVADED IRAQ IN 2003 AS THEY THOUGHT IRAQ HAD WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
WESTERN EUROPE
RENAISSANCE - THE BEGINNING OF MODERN TIMES
THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION SPREAD INTO ENGLAND WHEN THE POPE DENIED HENRY VIII A DIVORCE
ABSOLUTE MONARCY – KINGS OF EUROPE GOVERNED WITH ABSOLUTE POWER AND HAD THE DIVINE RIGHT – THE RIGHT TO RULE DIRECTLY FROM THE WILL OF GOD.
ENLIGHTENMENT – FAITH IN THE POWER OF REASON – “THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD”
GLORIOUS REVOLUTION –THE OVERTHROW OF KING JAMES II OF ENGLAND – THE REVOLUTION TO OVERTHROW THE KING WAS BLOODLESS-ESTABLISHED THE SUPREMACY OF PARLIAMENTOVER THE CROWN
FRENCH REVOLUTION –INEQUALITIES BETWEEN THE THIRD ESTATE AND THE OTHER 2 ESTATES, HUNGER , POVERTY LED THE THIRD ESTATE TO ATTACK THE NOBLES AND DEMAND A NEW CONSTITUTITION, FEAR THAT THE ROYAL TROOPS WOULD OCCUPY Paris LED PARISIANS TO STORM THE BASTILLE IN SEARCHOF WEAPONS
WWI – ASSASSINATION OF AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE FRANCI FERDINAND BY GAVRILLO PRINCIP WAS THE FINAL SPARK THAT STARTED WWI – THE GREAT WAR
LEAGUE OF NATIONS – DRAWN UP BY PRES. WILSON, THE U.S. DID NOT JOIN, WAS TO PREVENT ANOTHER GREAT WAR WHICH IT DID NOT
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION – STARTED IN ENGLAND- PRODUCTION FROM COTTAGE INDUSTRIES AND MANUAL LABOR TO FACTORIES AND MACHINES
WWII – CAUSES – TREATY OF VERSAILLES – WAR GUILT CLAUSE, REPARATIONS, DISARMAMENT, LAND TAKEN AWAY FROM GERMANY
AXIS POWERS: GERMANY, JJAPAN, ITALY
ALLIES: GREAT BRITAIN, U.S. FRANCE, SOVIET UNION