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