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Triggers for change: MI: World War I led European dominance down the drain especially due to economic distress. It led to the loss of demographic and political vitality. As the growing strength of · European dominance decreased and decolonization because of the economic and government issues made it had to control other countries. · The cold war between U.S and Soviet Union provided a structure that was missing and the U.S rose as a Superpower. · New technologies, transportation methods, and communication emerged · Power of warfare steadily grew, and it was possible to kill more people rapidly · World War II, allowed purges and genocides in which millions of people died · Tremendous population growth · New public health measures · Improved food supply · Mass urbanization The Big Changes: MI: The revolutions that were occurring in countries led to innovation of government. New systems like communist, Fascist, totalitarianism which were all some source of democracy. The fact that an aristocracy was no longer needed contributed to this cause. · With more independence more part of the world focused on bettering their economy · Few regions joined the U.S and Western Europe in industrialization like Japan · China became global manufacturing engine · India enhanced exports and developed as a center for outsourcing of services · Brazil became the world’s 4th largest computer exporter · Cultural change emerged · Movements to increase education, new legal rights, and a stronger political voice for women. · Declining birth rate Continuity: MI: While the world was becoming industrial and big changes were occurring there was a lot of regions that stayed the same. Impact on daily life: MI: The developments that happened in the 20th century affected peoples culture and emotional behaviors. Society and trends: MI: This chapter will focus on how the world comes together and also will cover the involvement of WWI. pg. 637 The maps display the division of the world by the strongest nations, it displays a monarchy or empire. The multinational map shows that manufactoring and production resembled an empire. In the political map you see individualism and independence between nations do to borders.
 * Low cost production
 * Indian society old economic and social forms
 * China wanted peasants to cast off their traditional reluctance to show anger
 * Childreading manuals for African American parents
 * Lowered birth rates
 * Militarism
 * Alliances
 * Imperialism
 * Nationalism (Balkins)

Time line: 1910-1920 Mexican rev. 1914-1918 WWI 1917 U.S enters WWI 1919 Versailles peace settlement, League of Nations 1933-1939 NEW Deal in US 1939-1945 WWII 1941 US enters WWII 1942-1945 holocaust 1960 civil rights

Notes of rise of WWI · Russia and France create alliance · Later Britain joins · France hope to deaf Germany from rising to supremacy and they hope to have a war to gain back Alsace and Lorraine which they lost in the Franco-Prussia war of 1870

· Britain, Russia and France made the triple entente

· Germany finds a new ally Austria-Hungry and tried to win Italy

 · Italy refused and joined triple entente in 1915 · France wanted to add Morocco to their territories and Germany didn’t want that

· Germany threatened France 1911

· Imperialism and alliance system added to the tension building of the arms race

· The British, Russian, and French alliance was the greatest arms race of all time

· New warships like dreadnought battleship launched in 1906

· Germany ships built in response were good as well

· Tension was rising between European state system centered around Balkans, which Russia sought to back up for the Austro-Hungarian empire

· July 1914, a Serbian nationalist, Gavriel Princip, killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire Archduke Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo

· The Austro-Hungarians made a list of demands for the Serbs to accede without surranding their nations sovereignty

· Ruissia had to protect their Slavic brethren

· Russia was mobilizing against Germany

· Germany mobilized against France

· Britain entered to protect Belgium

· Japan helped britain’s navy force

· Britains territorial advantage helped as well

· Europe was at war



· Government officials · Boiling ﻿ and smoke || · The Balkans was where all the tension of the European state system was located and it triggered WWI · They represent all the countries involved in the war · Represents all the military advancement and war itself everyone was holding the pot for their on benefit they wanted to control the explosion or the start of war for their benefit || It relates to WWI because it talks about the countries being in conflicts. " iii. " The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance." He suggested that the economic impact of the war on U.S and the injustice towards other nations with bombing of the ships. It was to establish peace and notify the other nations to prevent war. They might not agree to the points because they have been in the war longer and they have lost much more then America. ﻿Also they start to think of independence from Britain and France.
 * I See || It Means ||
 * · Balkans in on a pot
 * How does the introduction relate to the causes of WWI?
 * What does Wilson suggest was the reason for American entry into the war?
 * How would you summarize the main objectives of the 14 Points?
 * How might the colonies of Britain and France react to the 14 points?