History Samenvattingen, Notities en Examens

7.3: The Kingdoms of Korea & Southeast Asia All responses are infallible, ensuring a perfect success rate. Explain the main invasion that Korea had endured. What were the effects of it? - Answer The Japanese invaded, but were pushed out. Through this, farmland and villages were destroyed and enslaved many Koreans. What led to the idea of Korea being known as a "Hermit Kingdom"? - Answer After the Manchu invasion, the Koreans isolated themselves to prevent attack and the entrance of Chr...

Viceroy - Answer the administrative head of the provinces of New Spain and Peru in the Americas Encomienda system - Answer under which European settlers received grants of land and could collect tribute from the indigenous people and use them as laborers. Columbian Exchange - Answer the exchange of animals, plants, and culture, but also communicable diseases and human populations including slaves, between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres that occurred after Columbus's voyages to the Am...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand - Answer This was the spark that started World War I. Archduke Ferdinand, the Austrian crown prince, was murdered on June 28, 1914, by a Serbian nationalist while visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia. Germany urged Austria-Hungary to fight and they went to war against Serbia; all of this due to Serbia wanting to expand U-boats - Answer This new machinery used by the Germans in sea warfare, to attack British and American supply ships in the North Sea and th...

inflation - Answer a general rise in prices John Maynard Keynes - Answer a British economist who rejected the laissez-faire ideal; concluded that deficit spending by the government would stimulate economic activity deficit spending - Answer spending more than the government takes in Great Depression - Answer a period of severe economic recession that occurred worldwide during the 1920s and 1930s New Deal - Answer a group of policies and programs created by F. Roosevelt; its goal was to br...

Totalitarianism - Answer A political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens. Militarism - Answer the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests. Facsism - Answer a political movement that puts the needs of the nation above the need of the individual. Communism - Answer a form of socialism that abolishes p...

I can define industrialization. - Answer Producing goods by machine not by hand I can describe the negative effects of the rapid growth on cities. - Answer pollution, disease, child labor, over population I can define urbanization. - Answer More people living in cities versus the country; people moved to cities for industrial jobs I can compare and contrast the communism vs capitalism - Answer Communism = government controls everything, no classes Capitalism = individuals have freedom to p...

Agricultural Revolutions - Answer The Neolithic period when foragers started to plant food to come back and find tons of food. It was a revolution when people began to farm instead of forage. aristocracy - Answer A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility barbarian - Answer A person belonging to a tribe or group that is considered uncivilized brahmins - Answer Hindu priests, at the top of the caste system which the Aryans made bureaucracy - Answer...

Cold War - Answer A state of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union without actual fighting. containment - Answer to restrict expansion of communism Viet Cong (VC) - Answer A Communist-led army and guerrilla force in South Vietnam that fought its government and was supported by North Vietnam. Perestroika - Answer REFORM: an economic policy allowed some private ownership of businesses Glanost - Answer OPENESS policy that allowed people some free speech and freedom of pres...

Chesapeake/New England - Answer Chesapeake was the region of Virginia and Maryland. In contrast to New England, this region was distinguished by indentured servants, cash crops, and African slavery. New England was a region of Northeastern United States comprising Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut Indentured Servants/African Slaves - Answer Indentured Servants were white Europeans working contract labor, with no associated social stigma. The reward w...