Unit VI Crisis and Achievement 1900 1945 Unit

Unit VI: Crisis and Achievement (1900 - 1945) Unit VII: The 20 th Century since 1945

China – Opium Wars/Treaty of Nanjing

Boxer Rebellion

Fall of Manchu – Sun Yat Sen

Mao – Long March

Communist Revolution – Mao Winning Farmers’ support

Great Leap Forward

Red Guards/Cultural Revolution

Deng Xiaoping/Four Modernizations

Three Gorges Dam

Tiananmen Square Massacre

India - Sepoy Rebellion

Amritsar Massacre

Caste System

Indian national Congress – Muslim League

Gandhi/ Civil Disobedience/Salt March

Indian Independence/Partition – Mass Exodus

Japan - Feudal society

Tokugawa – Close Door Policy

Japanese Feudal System

Japanese Tradition Religion – Shinto – Spirits in Nature

Commodore Perry – Gun Boat Diplomacy

Meiji Restoration – Open Door Policy, Modernization, Militarization

Lack of Resources – Location Near Korea and China - Colonization

Russo Japanese War

Japanese invasion of Manchuria, China

Japan - Nanjing Massacre

Atomic Bombs – Japanese Surrendered – End of WWII

Japanese Constitution

Ho Chi Minh – Nationalist Leader, Socialist, Founder of Vietnam

Indochina, crossroad of SE Asia (Vietnam)– French/Japanese Colonization

Aung San Suu Kyi/ Burma’s Democratic Leader

Pol Pot – Killing Fields - Cambodia Genocide

Berlin Conference – Scramble for Africa – European Colonization of Africa

Created Territorial divisions and Tribal Disputes

Rwanda Genocide – Hutu v Tutsi

African Nationalist Leaders Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya (Mau Mau) Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana

Pan-Africanism

South Africa – Zulus – Great Fighters

Apartheid – South Africa

Nelson Mandela – Apartheid Fighter

Ending Apartheid – Bishop Tutu/de Klerk Bishop Tutu De Klerk Mandela

Latin American Independence – Unification Failed – Andes Mts, Amazon Basin

Founding Fathers - Jose de San Martin/ Bolivar

Toussaint L'Ouverture – Haitian Revolution Leader

Fidel Castro – Cuban Founder/Guerilla Leader/ Gained Farmers’ Support

Mexican Revolution - Porfirio Diaz/Francisco Villa/Zapata

Mexican Revolution - Miguel Hidalgo

Latin America - Cash Crop

Latin American Social Hierarchy