Lauryn Zabat WH Spring

Empires in Collision Reversal of Fortune: China's Century of Crisis -China was one of the countries that confronted an aggressive and industrialized west -stayed independent Map of Time 1793: Chinese reject British requests for open trade 1798: Napolean invades Egypt 1830s: Famine and rebellions in Japan 1838-1842: First Opium War in China 1850-1864: Taiping Uprising in China 1856-1858: Second Opium War in China 1894-1895: Japanesse War against China 1908: Young Turk takeover in Ottoman Empire 1910: Japan annexes Korea The Crus within -China's Industrual Revolution was ine if the largest Industrial Revolutions to happen. they had a vast amount of people and a booming population and agriculture coukd nit keep up, China then had:       -unemployment       -impoverishment       -misery       -starvation -China's famed centralized and bureaucratic did not enlarge itself to keep pace with the growing population...

Chapter 23 The Transformation of the World Economy 1919-1946: League of Nations 1945: United Nations, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund Established 1960: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries founded 1967: Six day Arab-Israeli war 1973-1974: Arab members of the OPEC place embargo on oil exports to the weat 1979: Convention to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women 1982: Sea laws introduced about uses of world oceans 1994: N. America Free Trade Network enabled 1995: World Trade Organization Created 1997: Kyoto protocol on globla warming introduced 2001: September 11 attacks on World Trade center and the Pentagon 2008: Gloal economic crisis began 2011: Osama Bin Laden killed Reglobalization: United States made the most in Foreign Investments during the late twentieth century. -After the war countries wanted to provide dramatic quickening of global economic transactions to have a "reglobalization" -After the world trade center w...

Blog: 20th Century Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, Austro- Hungarian Empire Triple Entente: Russia, France, Britain                          - Wanted National Security "Thus a system of alliances, intended to keep peace that drew the Great Powers of Europe into a general war by early August of 1914" "The outbreak od war was sort of an accident" -started when Archuduke's assassination -wasn't planned -system od rigid alliance mafe Europe vulnerable to this kind of accident. -Europe saw world as an arena of conflict and competition among rival nation states -Great powers of Europe competed for colonies, spheres of influence and superiority. -school's media, military had convinced million sof ordinary Europeans that their identities were meaningful. Huge Rivalry: Germany and BRitian -both developed "war plans" "Hair trigger mentality" page 739 picture: women make supplies for way men are to use it and go ...