20th+Century+Nationalism

Indian Nationalism Middle East Africa

1. **Read 636-643** -take notes to Identify major changes and continuities of the upcoming unit

Major Changes

religions taking ground once again
 * change of similarly used political governments to a more wider range
 * totalitarian gov't, new forms of authoritarianism,
 * aristocracy no longer use
 * other nations have say in global commerce joined the US and Europe
 * oil-producing states
 * China, India, Brazil
 * China - global manufacturing
 * India -
 * Brazil - 4th exporter
 * new transportation and communication
 * Culture changes - encouraged secular loyalties
 * Nationalism, marxism,
 * more missionaries
 * changed relgions
 * Women's rights
 * new round of globalization
 * Soviet Union pulled out of international political system and economy,
 * nazi germany, authoritaian Japan, China in 1960 and the US after decades of isoliationism
 * nazi germany, authoritaian Japan, China in 1960 and the US after decades of isoliationism

Major Continuities
 * advanced industrialization
 * focus on low cost productions of foods/products
 * rural regions retain older economic and social forms
 * economic inequlity worsened
 * lots of resistence to change all over the world
 * Africa and Middle East
 * educations of boys still greater than education of girls
 * tried to combine change with older tradtions

2. **Read 647-649** outline the causes of the First World War


 * Germany's growing economy and military powers = russia alliances with France and Britain (Triple Entente)
 * France hoped that a war would break Germany's supremacy from rising, so they can recover lost lands
 * Britain joins alliance b/c of growing German navy
 * counter alliance formed by Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy
 * Italy later joins Triple Entente in war b/c of hostility b/w them and Austria-Hungary
 * they controlled land that Italy claimed
 * scramble for unclaimed lands = more tension
 * Germany threatened war if France advanced to annex Morocco
 * Germans bought off by French concession of territories
 * costly race to arms
 * Germany's push of building a navy that would be better than Britain's
 * new warships, larger armies, practiced planned strategies to use on one another if war breaks out
 * growing labor unrest after 1900
 * occurred in all major industrialized nations
 * strikes, trade unions, votes for socialist parties
 * Balkans
 * Russia to back up Serbia reacting to Austro-Hungary empire
 * Austro-Hungarians have list of demands for Serbs for surrendering of nation's sovereignty
 * Germany to take France over first then fight a slower mobilizing Russia
 * to take Belgium on their way to France
 * Britain had promised to protect them decades ago so they come into war
 * Britain call in Japan along with all other colonies they ruled

3. Copy the image above into your wiki and complete a brief "I See/It Means" below it.


 * I see || It means ||
 * * five people sitting on top of the cooking pot
 * cooking pot seems to still bubble out even though many people on top
 * each of the five people have different styles of clothing
 * "Balkan Troubles" on pot || * these five people could represent world powers at the time who all do not wish for war to happen and trying to keep the Balkan troubles to spill out
 * since the pot is still bubbling out dispite having multiple nations on top of it shows that the Balkan troubles could not be contained at all and war would probably be bound to occur
 * five different types of clothing styles shows that it is not just one nation trying to contain this problem
 * holding the pot down also means that all these nations dont want war right away

4. Read the 14 Points points by Woodrow Wilson found here: @http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/President_Wilson%27s_Fourteen_Points

5. Answer the following questions in your wiki - Start at "It will be our wish..." (10th paragraph)

How does the introduction relate to the causes of WWI? What does Wilson suggest was the reason for American entry into the war? How would you summarize the main objectives of the 14 Points? How might the colonies of Britain and France react to the 14 points?
 * the cause of WWI would relate to the quote because secret alliances that occurred
 * "secret covenants entered into in the interest of particular governments and likely at some unlooked-for moment to upset the peace of the world"
 * Wilson claimed that the US
 * that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression