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Steps to War
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Industrialization
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Agricultural Revolution A time of revised farming practices that allowed people to grow more food More food=increasing population Better farming techniques Seed drill Crop rotation Enclosure Warmer climate
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Factors of Production Land (ground and resources) Labor (workforce and their skills) Capital (machinery, anything that makes work easier) Before, controlled by the state Industrialization, controlled by individuals
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Factory vs. domestic system Domestic system- no division of labor, everything produced in the home Factory system- division of labor, production occurs in factories
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Life in the factories 12-16 hour days Low wages Unsanitary working conditions
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Middle Class managers of industry also bankers, manufacturers, merchants, lawyers, doctors, engineers, professors gained social influence and power (as income grew) government cared about them
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Economic Theories Mercantilism- we already talked about this Capitalism- factors of production controlled by individuals Adam Smith- laissez-faire, supply and demand, competition David Ricardo- iron law of wages, comparative advantage Thomas Malthus- population growth model Socialism- factors of production controlled by the government for the benefit of all Owen, Fourier, Blanc, Saint-Simon Communism- factors of production controlled by everyone for the benefit of everyone Marx and Engels
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Reform Movements
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Why reforms? Poor working conditions Overcrowding in cities Unemployment Lack of sanitation
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Types of Reforms Emancipation Temperance Movement (banning alcohol) Suffrage (the right to vote) Better working conditions and sanitation Native Rights Labor unions
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Scientific Advances Edison’s light bulb Bell’s telephone Marconi’s radio Automobiles Wright brother’s airplane cell theory genetics evolution Jenner’s small pox vaccine pasteurization Fleming’s penicillin structure of the atom radioactivity (Curie) quantum theory (Planck and Einstein)
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Social Science History Anthropology Sociology Psychology Economics
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The Arts romanticism- rejected the reason of the Enlightenment idealized view of society Sir Walter Scott, James Fennimore Cooper, Grimm brothers Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Daguerre, Matthew Brady realism-everyday life important-Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy naturalists-ugly and unpleasant aspects of life- Emile Zola impressionism-vivid impressions of people and places- Monet, Renoir
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Liberalism
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Changes in France Louis-Philippe became “citizen king” 2 nd French Republic Revolution of 1848 2 nd French Empire- Louis-Napoleon Franco-Prussian War 3 rd Republic
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Western Hemisphere Haiti- Toussaint-Louverture Simon Bolivar- Latin and South America Mostly ruled by dictators after declaring independence
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Russia emancipation of serfs local governments assassination of Alexander II civil unrest government cracks down Revolution of 1905
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Austria-Hungary lots of different ethnicities uprisings against Francis Joseph I Dual-monarchy created Balkan Wars
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Nationalism
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What is nationalism? a sense of national consciousness (identification with a nation)
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Why nationalism? it makes them put the nation over individual interests it encourages similar peoples to come together (and sometimes rebel) it provided strength and unity as a country
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Modern Examples Chechnya The Kurds Kashmir
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Unifications
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Italy Camillo Cavour (Sardinia) made a deal with France to kick Austria out of the north Northern states of Lombardy, Parma, Modena, and Tuscany asked to be part of Sardinia 1860-Giuseppe Garibaldi conquered the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and handed it over to Victor Emmanual II
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Germany economically- Zollverein was a customs union that reduced tariffs Politically- 1861 William I became king, appointed Otto von Bismark Wars of Unification- Danish War, Seven Weeks’ War, Franco-Prussian War 1871- declared the unified German empire under Chancellor Bismark and Kaiser William
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Legacies people want a country with similar people in it more unrest, especially in the Balkans unification of Italy and Germany, division of Austria-Hungary ideas of superiority
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Imperialism
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Definition when one country takes over another to get its resources or create a sphere of influence
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Justification other countries need to modernize modern countries wanted the resources and the markets to sell goods in resources and markets social and political influence throughout the world
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Types of Colonies settlement colonies- send people to live in the new country dependent colonies- a few European officials the native population protectorates- sphere of influence, ruler maintained nominal title, but had to acquiesce to European demands
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Africa French and British claimed North Africa during a time of political unrest (British got Suez Canal) King Leopold II conquered the Congo West Africa put up a fight, but eventually lost Boers came first to South Africa, then the British defeated them
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Effects stripped of its resources people not allowed to participate in government boundaries redrawn with no thought to the indigenous population people learn to be cruel
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Asia mostly by spheres of influence British took over India for trade, set up people in power French controlled Indochina Dutch East Indies China=spheres of influence (Opium Wars) Japan avoided being imperialized because of industrialization Sino-Japanese War, Japan won Taiwan US got Samoa, Hawaii, The Philippines, Guam and Wake Island
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Effects European influence increased trade and modernization
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South America Spanish-American War “Dollar Diplomacy” Panama Canal
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Legacies everything going on in the Middle East and Africa countries are still dependent on the west some countries became more democratic and industrialized less disease
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