history final

race for war Tech, unity in nations for war
-machine gun, poison gas, and airplane
-600,000 deaths in western front

Serbian nationalist kills austrian archduke, sparks WWI
-alliance of britain, france,usa, russia, serbia, belgium, greece, and japan
-central power of germany, austria-hungary, ottoman, and italy

assassination sparks allied powers into action against nations

Marxist political party founded by Lenin and siezed power in 1917 after Russian revolution from outrage at elites by ordinary people

war ends november 1918, challenges enlightenment and progress
-shows evils of science, war, and technology

Bolshevik leader; wanted:
-worker controlled factories
-land to peasants to farm
-end of russia in WWI
-communists take st petersburg
russia becomes USSR

Woodrow wilson proposed ideas
-free trade and free seas
-open diplomacy
-colony claims and disputes in support of self determination of colony

fate of losers of WWI
-germany loses land, loses military strength, loses money for repiration
-war guilt clause blaming war on germany

Nationalistic political ideology seeking to revilatize and purify nation, and mobilize people
-emphasis on unity by force
-challenges capitalism and communism in economics
-great government involvement in everything
-territoriality aggressive, authoritarian, nationalistic, anticommunistic

Japan modernizes but great depression brings authoritarian government and turns to fascism
-cherry blossom society: group of nationalists who bring japan out of depression and invade manchuria
-league of nations says stop, japan says no, withdraws from league and captures important chinese cities

200,000 chinese killed, japanese racial aggression

jewish temple burns in Germany, no one helps, showing beginning of jewish discrimination.

attempt to appease nazi Germany party by letting it invade czechloslovakia

Mobilization of economies and people for war on grand scale, violence directed toward civilians
-German attacks mostly consist of city bombings
-war on multiple fronts

fall of french stronghold in vietnam, ends french's colonial enterprise

colony of indo china formed by french influences people with western ideas. Ho chi min uses nationalism to unite vietnam against french
-french loses colony in WWI but takes it back in WWII
-vietnam asks for help against french from USA, but USA doesnt help because communism
-war results in north communism and democratic south

fidel castro comes to power with communism in response to assassination attempt.
-soviet has missles in cuba for protection
-america sets up blockage
-almost nuclear war

persecuted buddhists in south vietnam, buddhist protests and president overthrown

north vietnamese offensive into south vietnam
-surprise attacks on towns and cities

post WWII, soviet wants to spread communism, soviet invades to tak over, america provides guns and aid for afghan to fight back