SSWH15 & 16

Industrialization

•Process of mechanizing the production of goods• Started in England

KARL MARX• Philosopher of Economy• Develops idea of socialism• Wrote Communist Manifesto• TWO MAIN CLASSES

• Proletariat (WORKING CLASS)• Bourgeoisie (MANAGERS)• CLASS REVOLUTION to overthrow

the MANAGERS and establish a CLASSLESS SOCIETY

ADAM SMITH• Economic Theorist• Enlightened Scottish dude• Father of Capitalism• Invisible Hand Theory• Nature will guide the economy• GOVT should BTFU

• Back Their Finances UP

• James Watt – FATHER OF THE SUCCESSFUL STEAM ENGINE• Thomas Edison – prolific inventor.

Notable for his light bulb• Henry Bessemer – New process

for strong steel• Eli Whitney – Cotton Gin.

Interchangeable Parts

• Samuel Morse – American inventor. Develops MORSE CODE. (uses for electric telegraph).• Alexander Graham Bell – made

the telephone.• Henry Ford – ASSEMBLY LINE• Factory system -

• Otto von Bismarck – UNIFIES the modern state of GERMANY• Emperor Meiji – Japanese emperor when Japan modernizes

RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

• DESCRIPTION:• Russia and Japan fight each other• Want land for empires

• OUTCOME:• JAPAN WINS• Russia has a REVOLUTION and the leader loses power (TSAR = leader)• Japan builds an EMPIRE

YOUNG TURKS

• Description:• Young Ottomans who want to BUILD A MODERN STATE• Eventually they TAKE OVER the OTTOMAN EMPIRE

• OUTCOME/RESULTS:• POWER GRAB too late• Enter World War I on the wrong side• LOSE WAR/LOSE EMPIRE

BOXER REBELLION

• DESCRIPTION• Uprising of the “Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists” aka the BOXERS.• DAOIST REBELS• WANT TO ELIMINATE the QING DYNASTY

• OUTCOME:• FAILS but weakens the DYNASTY• MILITARISM• ALLIANCES• IMPERIALISM• NATIONALISM• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Berlin Conference

•Meeting in Berlin, Germany to DIVIDE AFRICA•Demonstrated:•Paternalism•Racism

•Europeans wanted African RESOURCES

COLONIAL CONTROL

• France – INDOCHINA (Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, etc…•BRITISH – Egypt, South Africa, etc…• JAPAN – Korea•AFRICA – All of Africa•Paternalism - Trying to help other countries like a

“father”

WORLD WAR I

• CAUSES OF THE WAR:• MILITARISM – build up of military capability• ALLIANCES

• Triple Alliance – Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy (and then Ottomans)• Triple Entente – France, Britain, Russia (United States)

• IMPERIALSIM – The desire to take land in other places• NATIONALISM

• Balkan Nationalism – People wanted their own contrives

• AFTER THE ASSASINATION• Austria asks for the people in charge of the assassination• Serbia says no• Austria declares war on Serbia• Russia declares war on Austria• Germany declares war on Russia• Germany declares war on France• France declares war Germany• Brittan declares war on Germany• Germany declares war on Britain

World War I Conditions

• Total War – every aspect of society dedicated to war• Western Front – Characterized by TRENCH WARFARE• Fight in trenches. Lack of water drainage and sanitation• Schlieffen Plan – Plan for a rapid German invasion/victory over France• Treaty of Versailles

• Written by GB, FR, US, RUS, ITALY• Said the WAR WAS OVER • AND

• Germany must accept blame• Germany loses land• Germany must pay for losses in the war

• WOODROW WILSON proposes the 14 Points for Lasting Peace• MOST IMP – Creation of the League of Nations to recommend peace but NO ONE

LISTENS

• ROMANOV – Ruling family of RUSSIA