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What were the causes and effects of the Meiji Restoration?
Causes: Desire to modernize and avoid foreign domination. Effects: Rapid industrialization, political centralization, and military modernization.
What were the causes and effects of Japan's invasion of Manchuria?
Causes: Economic problems during the Great Depression, desire for resources and expansion. Effects: International condemnation, weakening of the League of Nations, further Japanese aggression.
What were the causes and effects of the Mandate System?
Causes: Dissolution of Ottoman and German empires after WWI. Effects: Nationalist movements in mandated territories, resentment towards colonial powers.
What were the causes and effects of increased literacy in colonies?
Causes: Colonial education systems, missionary efforts. Effects: Rise of nationalist movements, demands for self-determination.
What were the causes and effects of Pan-Africanism and Pan-Arabism?
Causes: Colonial oppression, shared cultural identity, desire for unity and self-determination. Effects: Increased solidarity, nationalist movements, eventual independence for many nations.
What were the causes and effects of the rejection of Wilson's Fourteen Points?
Causes: European powers prioritizing their own interests. Effects: The US adopted an isolationist policy, feeling snubbed by its allies. This set the stage for future conflicts.
What were the causes and effects of the Great Depression on Japan?
Causes: Global economic downturn. Effects: Military leaders saw expansion as the solution to economic woes.
What were the causes and effects of the dissolution of Empires after WWI?
Causes: World War I. Effects: The Ottoman Empire and German colonies were broken up after WWI. Former colonies were placed under the control of Allied powers (like Britain and France).
What is self-determination?
The right of a people to choose their own government and political status.
What is the Mandate System?
A system established after WWI where former colonies of defeated powers were administered by Allied powers.
What is Pan-Africanism?
A movement promoting the unity and solidarity of all people of African descent.
What is Pan-Arabism?
A movement promoting the unity and cooperation of Arab nations.
What is the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?
Japan's concept for an economic and political bloc in Asia led by Japan.
What is the Non-Cooperation Movement?
A campaign of civil disobedience in India led by Gandhi.
What is the Salt Satyagraha?
Gandhi's symbolic march to protest British salt taxes.
What is Imperialism?
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means.
What is Isolationism?
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of foreign countries.
What is Nationalism?
Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
The US President who proposed the Fourteen Points for a just post-WWI world.
Who was Mohandas Gandhi?
The leader of the Indian National Congress who advocated for peaceful independence from Britain.
What was the role of military leaders in Japan during the Great Depression?
They saw expansion as the solution to economic woes.
What was the role of new generation of leaders, often educated in Europe, in West Africa?
Pushed for self-rule.