Nationalism Review
Nationalism
What is Nationalism?The extreme pride for your nation- (a group of people with common characteristics)
What is Self-Determination?Belief that a nation has the right to rule themselves (self-rule)
Popular soverignty
Latin America (early 1800s)
Causes Effects Key Playe
r-American & French Revolutions
-Enlightenment
- Harsh Spanish Rule/ Imperialism
-Independence!
-Regionalism
-Economic dependence on West (cash-crop economies)
-Unequal land and wealth distribution
-Simon Bolivar
-Jose de San Martin
-Toussaint L’Ouverture
Germany (1870s)
Causes Effects Key Playe
r-Weak German States
-“Blood & Iron” (militarism)
- Realpolitik
-Unified Germany
-Becomes strong and militaristic
-Upsets Balance of Power WWI
-Otto Von Bismarck
Italy (1870s)
Causes Effects Key Playe
r- Weak Italian city-states
Created one unified Italian State
-Giuseppe Garibaldi
-Guiseppe Mazzini
-Camillo di Cavour
Ireland(1845-1995)
Causes Effects Key Playe
r-English control of Ireland
-Irish Potato Famine- British continued taking healthy crops
-Bitterness between Irish Catholics and Protestants
Mass Migration
-Independent Ireland with North Ireland ruled by British
-Terrorism between Protestant North and Catholic
-Irish Republican Army (IRA)- a terrorist group
India (1920s-1940s)
Causes Effects Key Playe
r- British Imperialism
-Sepoy Mutiny (anti-West), 1857
–Gandhi’s Civil Disobedience (Salt March, boycott, fasting)
-Partition of India
-Independent Hindu India & Muslim Pakistan
-Religious and Ethnic Conflict
-Nuclear proliferation
-Indian Democracy
Indian National Congress
Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Zionism (Mid-1800s-1947)
(movement to create homeland for Jews in Palestine)
Causes Effects Key Playe
r- Anti-Semitism
-Balfour Declaration (British support of cause)
-Holocaust
-1948 Israel a nation-state
Major conflict between Israel and neighboring Arab countries
-Peace prevented by extremists-Israeli settlement building
-Theodor Herzl
-Yasir Arafat
-Yitzhak Rabin
-U.N.
China (1839-1911)Causes Effects Key
Player-Western
Imperialism (Opium War)
-Spheres of Influence
-Weakness of Qing dynasty
-Boxer Rebellion (anti- West)
-1911-overthrow of Qing dynasty
-1949-China becomes Communist
Sun Yixian
Africa (Post- WWII)Causes Effects Key
Player-European empires
weakened (post WWII)
-African colonies helped European war effort
•Independent African nations
•ethnic conflict (Rwanda, Sudan)
•Poverty/ disease of developing nations
• corrupt government
•Jomo Kenyatta
•Kwame Nkrumah
•Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu
Balkans (Eastern Europe)Causes Effects Key
Player-Many ethnic groups
under rule of empires (Austria-Hungary)
- End of communism break up of Yugoslavia
Balkan Powder Keg WWI (assassination of Archduke Ferdinand)
Bosnian conflict: Ethnic cleansing Serbs vs. Muslims
•The Black Hand, Gavrilo Princip
•Slobodan Milosevic
Former USSR (1991)Causes Effects Key
Player-Communist
Reforms (glasnost and perestroika)
- Desire for Self-Rule among satellites and soviet republics in Eastern Europe
-Collapse of Soviet Union
-Independent Eastern European nations and Russia form democracy
•Mikhail Gorbachev