HIS 112 Exam #2 Important Names
Simón Bolívar succinctly summed up the developing political situation in Latin America when he said
"I fear peace more than war."
U.S. policies toward Latin America included
"dollar diplomacy" and the Good Neighbor Policy
Emiliano Zapata was
A Mexican agrarian rebel who fought for "land and liberty."
Long Term Causes of the War
Alliance system Arms race Imperialism Nationalism Break down of Austro—Hungarian and Ottoman Empires Encirclement of Germany
Who is the most dangerous man in Queen Victoria's empire?
Cecil John Rhodes
Reasons for Dropping the Atomic bombs
Economic Military Diplomatic Political Revenge
The deliberate violation of perspective by Japanese artists influenced
Edgar Degas
Who were the two men from Great Britain that lead the final phase of the British Empire?
General Charles Gordon, Cecil John Rhodes
Who were the Friekorps
German ex-solders who were hired by the German government to help maintain order after the First World War.
(1914) Triple Alliance
Germany Austria Hungary Italy
The members of the Triple Alliance were
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
The term lost generation was coined by
Gertrude Stein
Which of the following Asian countries was part of the "big five" in the League of Nations?
Japan
Leon Trotsky
Lenin's military leader
Mexican President ________ nationalized his country's oil industry, thus posing a challenge to the U.S. policy of nonintervention in Latin American affairs.
Lázaro Cárdenas
One of the greatest proponents of pan-Africanism was
Marcus Garvey
One of the greatest proponents of pan-Africanism was
Marcus Garvey.
The last tsar of Russia was
Nicholas II
Enabling Act—March 24th, 1933
Outlawed all parties except his, reason was the Reichstag was burned down by supposedly the communists—once he is in power, he never gives it back. Democracy in Germany is done
Which of the following refers to "land of the pure"?
Pakistan
Who stood in Hitler's way of becoming chancellor?
President Hindenburg
(1914) Triple Entente
Russia England France
The individual who developed the theory of psychoanalysis was
Sigmund Freud
In 1824, Thomas Stamford Raffles founded the port of
Singapore
Which individual's surname means "man of steel"?
Stalin
What is the NKVD? How do they obtain confessions?
Stalin's secret police. Under extremely brutal torture people would confess to things they hadn't done.
In 1770, Captain James Cook anchored his fleet near what modern city?
Sydney
Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau.
The author of Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races
Pablo Picasso
The leading proponent of cubism was
Cheka
The secret police under Lenin and his Communist Party
In the wake of World War I, Mustafa Kemal became president of
Turkey
Hitler finally was offered the chancellorship in January 1933. Who helped him reach this position?
Von Poppin
Fatt Hing Chin was
a Chinese immigrant to the United States who panned for gold
Kristallnacht was
a Nazi-arranged attack on thousands of Jewish stores. Night of the Broken Glass—1938—1st instance of violence against the Jews specifically directed by the state.
According to Freud, the root of neurotic behavior was
a conflict between conscious and unconscious mental processes
Cecil Rhodes was
a leading British imperialist who founded a colony in Africa said, "We are the finest race in the world, and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race"
Maoism was
a political ideology that held that peasants were the foundation for a successful communist revolution.
Mussolini
began the fascist movement
Juan Manuel de Rosas
called for regional autonomy in an attempt to reconcile competing interests in Argentina
Otto von Bismarck
diplomat—famous line—the decisions of the day will be made by blood and iron. He is not concerned with human rights but power politics or politics of reality (realpolitik). He is a Junker, Prussian nobility, is concerned with only Prussian goals, he hates democracy, individualism, and socialism. He stress Prussian socialism— service and obedience to the state.
The Maji Maji rebellion occurred in
east Africa against the Germans.
The India Act of 1937
gave the institutions of a self-governing state to India, although the British government still exercised overall control.
The Long March
greatly strengthened Mao Zedong's leadership position
William the 1st of Prussia
he has the title of King—no other German leader has this, gives the new state legitimacy with other leaders in Europe
Who is Sergei Kirov? What is his fate?
head of the Lenin party, very powerful. He becomes too popular, so he has him assassinated.
What are the Gulags?
labor camps
Muhammad Ali was the
leader who ended effective (if not nominal) Ottoman control in Egypt.
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
military—will lead the Prussian military to victories in three quick wars the will unify Germany under Prussian control. The Elder is used because his namesake will lead the German armies in World War One—the Younger
Louis Riel was the leader of the
métis
In which of the following groups did ideas regarding African nationalism germinate?
new elite
Kulaks
peasants who own a few farm animals or land
The social Darwinists believed that
powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker societies.
Caudillos were
regional military leaders who provided order in Latin America
The War of 1812
stimulated a new sense of Canadian unity against an external threat.
Emilio Aguinaldo led an uprising in
the Philippines against the United States
What major power was NOT invited to attend the Paris peace negotiations that led to the Treaty of Versailles?
the Soviet Union
While the Russian-German Treaty of Nonaggression was, on the surface, a nonaggression pact, it had secret stipulations that spelled out
the division of eastern Europe.
Sun Yatsen's plan for China included all of the following EXCEPT
the establishment of a communist, totalitarian government
Which of the following was NOT one of the chief actions of Roosevelt's New Deal?
tighten the money supply
Pan-Africanism is an idea that advocated the
unification of all people of African descent around the globe into one African state
Nikolai Berdiaev
wrote, "Man's historical experience has been one of steady failure, and there are no grounds for supposing it will be ever anything else"