Benchmark 3 Study Guide

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Suez Canal (what country it is in, who took over)

• Egypt• British

Roosevelt Corollary (definition)

• Stated the U.S. could act as an international police in the Americas

Monroe Doctrine (definition)

• Forbid further colonization by European powers in the Americas

Spanish-American war (event to start war, who won)

• Bombing of the USS Maine• U.S.

Imperialism (definition)

• Extension of rule or influence by one govt., nation, or society over another

Liberia & Ethiopia

• In Africa, these 2 countries were able to maintain their independence during the age of imperialism

Sphere of influence (definition)

• Area in a country in which a foreign nation holds special trading privileges

Berlin Conference

• When Africa was being split up by European powers, Africans not invited to the conference

Stanley & Livingstone

• Stanley sent to Africa to find Livingstone after he went missing

Boers

• Dutch farmers/settlers

Muhammad Ali

• Controlled Egypt before the British took over

Boer War (who was involved, who won)

• Boers/Africans (Zulus)/British• British won

Boxer Rebellion

• Attempt by the Chinese to get rid of foreign influence

Bolivar and San Martin

• Worked together to gain independence for South American nations (who were under Spanish rule)

Thailand (significance during imperialism)

• King Mongkut and his son established Thailand as a neutral area/buffer between France & Great Britain

Panama Canal (who started it and finished it)

• France• U.S.

Opium War (what was smuggled in)

• On the test, it will say something like, “What was smuggled in to China, thus starting wars?”– Opium

• It is not going to say what was smuggled in, starting the Opium War. That’s too easy!

Sinking of the USS Maine

• This is a repeat question (from the Spanish-American war)

Open Door Policy (issued by whom?)

• U.S.

Country that split from India

• Pakistan

Meiji (definition)

• Enlightened rule/ruler

Gandhi

• Led India’s independence movement

Japan (significance during imperialism)

• Able to remain free from colonial rule because they adopted Western style politics & way of life.

Battles near Verdun & the Somme River

• Showed just how ineffective trench warfare was

“spark that lit the fuse” for WWI

• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Rasputin

• Allowed to make key political decisions in the Russian court, which many didn’t like

Country that GY invaded (thus bringing in Britain)

• Belgium

Wilson & Fourteen Points

• 14pts. Was Pres. Wilson’s idea

Germany declared war on what 2 countries first (Aug. 1 & 3)

• Russia, France

Heir to Austro-Hungarian throne

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Schlieffen Plan

• GY would race west, defeat France, and return to fight Russia in the east

Lenin

• Brought back to Russia to stir up trouble• Leader of Bolsheviks• Ended the Russian Rev.

MAIN

• Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

Triple Entente

• BR, FR, RU

Treaty of Versailles

• Know the terms, in general

1918 Armistice (2 countries)

• Germany & France

End result of March Rev.

• Czar abdicated and the royal family was killed

Central Powers

• GY, Au-Hu (I forgot the Ottoman Empire again on the test. )

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

• Stopped the war b/w RU & GY

Allies (1914/1915)

• BR, FR, RU, Italy

League of Nations

• From the Fourteen Points, would protect great & small states alike (prevent war)

Zimmerman Note/Telegram

• Would help Mexico regain land (from the U.S.) if they allied with Germany

Battle of the Marne

• Caused GY to fight a war on 2 fronts (left the Schlieffen plan in ruins)

(end of the war) Germany & Paris

• Allies launched a counterattack when GY was 40 miles from Paris

Big Four countries

• BR, FR, US, Italy

Lusitania

• British ship, sunk by a u-boat, killed 128 Americans

Battle of Tannenberg

• During this battle, it took 4 days for the Germany army to crush the Russian army