History

new inventions of farm machinery and an increase in population

the standard of living increased

the ideas of and values of the enlightenment

began revolutions in Europe and around the world

students and lower class

a different type of government

American Latin America nations were trying to gain independence from foreign powers

European nations were trying to gain independence from their own government

• resources being taken
• unequal trade treaties were created
• loss of culture

• womens suffrage
• factory acts that limited child labor
• unions were made legal in many countries

• increased government involvemnet in peoples lives and the economy
• main goal is to keep prices low for all people and to provide employment for many
• government runs key industries
• makes economic decisions

• governments runs everything
• only one political party, the communist party, runs the government
• all people are able to work are assigned jobs
• little to no economic freedom

• medical advances
• improvements in global transportation
• improved food prodution

• banning child labor
• increasing wages
• worker safety

european powers increased their sphere of reference

• europeans claimed terriorties in East Asia
• Christian missionaries spread religious beliefs in Africa
• the berlin conference divides up Africa without any African representatives

• finding new markets for exporting goods
• spreading chrisitianity
• gaining new territories

• an economic system characterized by private ownership of businesses and marketplace competition
• political system is democracy with leaders elected by the people
• supply and demand

• treaty of versailles
• world-wide depression
• rise of totalitarian regimes
• isolation of major powers

• artillery
• trenchwarfare
• new technology
• zimmerman telegram

• long-range weapons
• machine guns
• gas warfare
• tanks
• airplanes
• zeppelins

people were in need of power (helpless)

individual rights are not viewed as importnat as the needs of the nation

• fighter planes
• nuclear bombs
• parachuters
• radar sonar
• zyklon B

• many jews died
• new method of fighting
• atomic bomb was invented
• germany split into 3
• berlin split into 2

• tensions
• different goals

• a conflict between the U.S and the soviet Union from 1945 until 1991
• neither nation directly confronts each other on the battlefield
• formation of NATO V. Warsaw pact