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Exam 4 | HS 102 - Hist Of Western Civ Since 1600, Quizzes of World History

Chapters 26 and 27 Class: HS 102 - Hist Of Western Civ Since 1600; Subject: History; University: Northern Michigan University; Term: Fall 2009;

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TERM 1
Third World
DEFINITION 1
A term widely used by international organizations and by
scholars to group the non-industrialized nations Africa, Asia,
and Latin America into a single unit
TERM 2
Opium Trade
DEFINITION 2
Opium was grown legally in British-occupied India and
smuggled into China by means of fast ships and bribed
officials; it became a destructive and ensnaring vice of the
Chinese
TERM 3
khedive
DEFINITION 3
a prince in Egypt
TERM 4
great migration
DEFINITION 4
a great movement of people that was the central experience
in the saga of Western expansion; one reason why the West's
impact on the world in the nineteenth century was so
powerful and many-sided
TERM 5
great white walls
DEFINITION 5
laws designed by Americans and Australians to keep Asians
out
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Third World

A term widely used by international organizations and by scholars to group the non-industrialized nations Africa, Asia, and Latin America into a single unit TERM 2

Opium Trade

DEFINITION 2 Opium was grown legally in British-occupied India and smuggled into China by means of fast ships and bribed officials; it became a destructive and ensnaring vice of the Chinese TERM 3

khedive

DEFINITION 3 a prince in Egypt TERM 4

great migration

DEFINITION 4 a great movement of people that was the central experience in the saga of Western expansion; one reason why the West's impact on the world in the nineteenth century was so powerful and many-sided TERM 5

great white walls

DEFINITION 5 laws designed by Americans and Australians to keep Asians out

new imperialism

the drive to create vast political empires abroad, recalling the old European colonial empires of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and contrasting with the economic penetration of non-Western territories between 1816 and 1880 TERM 7

Afrikaners

DEFINITION 7 Descendants of the Dutch in the cape colony TERM 8

Berlin Conference

DEFINITION 8 a meeting of European leaders held in 1884 and 1885 in order to lay down some basic rules for imperialist competition in sub-Saharan Africa; they established the principle that European claims to African territory had to rest on effective occupation in order to be recognized by other states TERM 9

white man's burden

DEFINITION 9 the idea that Europeans could and should civilize more primitive, nonwhite peoples and that nonwhites would eventually receive the benefits of modern economics, cities, advanced medicine, and higher standards of living TERM 10

Great Rebellion

DEFINITION 10 the 1857 and 1858 insurrection by Muslim and Hindu mercenaries in the British army that spread throughout northern and central India before finally being crushed, primarily by loyal native troops from southern India. Britain thereafter ruled India directly

trench warfare

a type of fighting behind rows of trenches, mines, and barbed wire; the cost in lives was staggering and the gains in territory minimal TERM 17

total

war

DEFINITION 17 in each country during the First World War, a government of national unity that began to plan and control economic and social life in order to make the greatest possible military effort TERM 18

Lusitania

DEFINITION 18 the british passenger liner sunk by German submarine that claimed 1,000 lives TERM 19

Petrograd Soviet

DEFINITION 19 a huge, fluctuating mass meeting of 2,000 to 3,000 workers, soldiers, and socialist intellectuals, modeled on the revolutionary soviets of 1905 TERM 20

Army Order No. 1

DEFINITION 20 a radical order of the Petrograd Soviet the stripped officers of their authority and placed power in the hands of elected communities of common soldiers

Bolsheviks

meaning "majority group," the name for Lenin's camp of the Russian party of Marxian socialism TERM 22

Constituent Assembly

DEFINITION 22 a freely elected assembly promised by the Bolsheviks, but permanently disbanded within one day under Lenin's orders after the Bolsheviks won less than one-fourth of the elected delegates TERM 23

war communism

DEFINITION 23 the application of the total war concept to a civil conflict, the Bolsheviks seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, and required everyone to work TERM 24

Cheka

DEFINITION 24 the re-established tsarist secret police, which hunted down and executed thousands of real or suspected foes, sowing fear and silencing opposition TERM 25

League of Nations

DEFINITION 25 a permanent international organization established during the peace conference in Paris in January 1919, designed to protect member states from aggression and avert future wars