Download OGT Review 3 - Plain Local Schools

Revised 2011
What is Imperialism?
Policy used by some nations to take
over other nations
Why do countries imperialize?
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Raw materials/natural resources
New markets for finished products
Spread western civilization
 Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden”
 Social Darwinism
Convert people to Christianity
Establish military bases and overseas ports
Increase the power and influence of the
controlling nations
 Nationalism/desire to become a world
power
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Impact on People in Controlled
Areas
Could not rule themselves
 Language, religion, and culture were
forced upon them by ruling nations
 Gave up natural resources without
compensation
 Literacy rates went up as education
improved
 Health standards improves
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How did the U.S. become an
imperial power?
Alaska
 Hawaii
 SpanishAmerican war
(1898)
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 Cuba
○ Teller
Amendment
○ Platt
Amendment
 Puerto Rico
○ Foraker Act
 Guam
 Philippines
Resistance to Imperialism
What arguments may be made for and
against imperialism?
 Many people rebelled in the imperialized
countries.
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 Boxer Rebellion in China
 Gandhi’s non-violent protest movement
against British in India
 Filipino Rebellion against the U.S.
How did the Treaty of Versailles
at the end of World War I impact
foreign policy?
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Germany had to take
the blame for WWI
Took territory from
Germany
Germany had to pay
reparations, leading
to economic and
political instability
Germans had deep
resentment for the
Treaty of Versailles
Between the World Wars
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World wide
depression created
political and
economic stability in
many countries
Rise of
dictatorships: Why?
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Hitler and Germany
Stalin and USSR
Mussolini and Italy
Franco and Spain
Tojo and Japan
The Failure of the League of
Nations leads to World War II
U.S. remained isolated and did
not join
 Weak organization and could
not stop the rise of totalitarian
nations
 Great Britain and France failed
with the policy of appeasement
 Germany attacked Poland in
1939 and Britain and France
followed the attack with a
declaration of war
 U.S. to enter in December of
1941 after the attack on Pearl
Harbor
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Results of World War II
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Ended in 1945 with the U.S. dropping of
the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
Marshall Plan
Differing intentions between the U.S. and
the Soviet Union would lead to the Cold
War
The U.S. and its allies formed NATO
The Soviet Union and its allies (“Satellites”)
formed the Warsaw Pact
 Churchill would state that “an iron curtain had
descended upon Europe”
Events of the Cold War
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Truman Doctrine and Containment
Berlin Blockade
Atomic weapons and the arms race
Communist Revolution in China
The Korean Conflict
McCarthyism
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Vietnam War
The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, leading to the
reunification of Germany
U.S. Domestic Affairs in the
1920s
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Red Scare
Women’s right to vote
The Great Migration
Immigration Restrictions
Revival of the Ku Klux Klan
Roaring 20s
Harlem Renaissance
Stock Market Speculation
Stock Market Crash
U.S. Domestic Policy in the
1930s
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Great Depression
New Deal (Relief,
Recovery, Reform)
Dust Bowl
U.S. Domestic Policy 1940-1945
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U.S. in World War II
Home Front
Industrial
Mobilization
Women and
Minorities in the
Workforce
Rationing
Internment of
JapaneseAmericans
U.S. Domestic Policy 1945Present
Postwar Prosperity
 McCarthyism
 Space Race
 Immigration Patterns (Sun Belt, Rust
Belt)
 Antiwar protest
 Counterculture Movement
 Women’s Liberation Movement
 Civil Rights Movement
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