Transcript Period 5 Country Profiles 2013

USA
Ariel, Tian, (Athena)
Pre-World War I
• 1898 – The Spanish-American War
• 1906 – American occupation of Cuba
• 1913 – Woodrow Wilson becomes President
• 1914 – Panama Canal
World War I
• 1915 – Sinking of the Lusitania
• 1917 – America declares war on Germany
• 1918 – Fourteen Points presented
World War I ends
Post-World War I
• Harding, Coolidge, Hoover conservative
presidencies, high tariffs
• Stock Market crash of 1929
• Great Depression
• Franklin D. Roosevelt 1932
• New Deal Recovery Reforms 1933
CCOT
• Analyze the economic and political changes
and continuities of the United States from
1898 to 1933 with the New Deal.
Germany
Mady, Katie, Christine
History
• 1871: Otto von Bismarck unified Germany
• Late 1870’s: Germany raises tariffs to protect industries
from Britain.
• 1882: Germany joins Italy and Austria-Hungary in a
triple alliance. (triple entente: Britain, France, Russia
• 1888: Beginning of Germany’s navy to compete with
Britain.
• 1888: Beginning of Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd
• 1914: Franz Ferdinand assassinated & Germany
declares war on Russia & France, Britain declares war
on Germany.
• 1914-1918: World War 1
More History
• 1915: German Cameroon & German colonies of South West
Africa are conquered.
• April 1915: Germans are the first to launch poison gas at
the second battle of Ypres
• 1916: Turn of Winter (massive famine) & US uses
submarines to sink British merchant ships.
• 1917: Germany establishes women’s auxiliary units.
• Armistice Signed; Emperor Wilhelm 2nd is exiled
• 1919: Germany signs treaty of Versailles.
• 1919: Weimar Republic is established.
• 1919-1923: Inflation causes government to issue new
currency.
• 1933: Adolf Hitler is appointed
• As chancellor and Nazi Germany begins persecuting Jews
CCOT Prompt
Describe economic and political
changes and continuities in
Germany from 1870-1933.
Ottoman Empire/Turkey
Kyle, Matias, Emilio
• 1876: Young Ottomans Form New Constitution
Under Abdul Hamid II
• 1877: Abdul Hamid II Suspends Constitution
and Parliament
• 1898: Crete occupied by Europeans
• 1902-1903: Macedonia Rebels
• 1909: Abdul Hamid II Overthrown by Young
Turks in Parliament
• 1910: Albania Becomes Independent
• 1912: Italy Conquers Libya
• 1912-1913: 1st and 2nd Balkan Wars
• 1914: Ottomans Form a Secret Alliance With
Germany; Deport Armenians
• 1915: British Land at Gallipoli
• 1916: Hussein Led Revolt in Arabia Against
Ottomans
• 1917: Balfour Declaration
• 1919: League of Nations Mandates Formed
From Former Ottoman Territories
• 1919: Ataturk Takes Power, Attempts to
Westernize Turkey
• 1919-1922: War Between Turkey and Greece
CCOT Prompt:
• Analyze political and social changes and
continuities in Turkey during the time period
1876-1922.
Japan
Joey, Tommy, Anthony, Leo
Important Dates Pt.1
1868 - Meiji Restoration
1870s Hired British engineers to build first
railroad
1870’s - British telegraph cables laid to Japan
1894-1895 - Japan wins Sino-Japanese War
1904-1905 – Japan wins Russo-Japanese War
1910 - Japan annexes Korea
Important Dates Pt. 2
1914 Japan joins Great Britain in WW1 by declaring war on
Germany
1915 Japan presents 21 demands to China
1919 Treaty of Versailles grants Japan German colonies, but
not the Chinese territories they wanted.
1923 Kanto earthquake, destroys ½ of Tokyo 200,000 dead.
1925 Japan population reaches 60 million
1931 Japan invades Manchuria, a mineral wealthy colony in
China.
1930s 89% of Japanese homes had electric lights.
CCOT Prompt
From 1868 from 1931
analyze the political and
economic changes and
continuities in Japan.
China
Ethan, Eldon, (Antonio)
Timeline
1. 1899 - Open Door Policy enables Europeans to maintain
access to a treaty port but restricts European influence
2. 1900 - Boxer Rebellion is started under the guidance of
Empress Dowager Cixi; crushed by Europeans
3. 1908 - Empress Dowager Cixi dies; Sun Yat-sen tries to take
over government but fails
4. October 1911 - Regional Army Mutiny led by Yuan Shikai
5. December 1911 - Last Qing Emperor Puyi abdicates and Sun
Yat-sen is elected president but steps down and Yuan Shikai
is elected president
6. 1915 - Japan presents China with Twenty-One Demands,
which would have turned China into a protectorate; Japan
Timeline
7.
May 4, 1919 - Students demonstrate in Forbidden city to
protest Japanese occupation of German ports
8. Early 1920s - Sun Yat-sen tries to come back; Guomindang
allies with Chinese Communist Party
9. 1925 - Sun Yat-sen dies; Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek)
assumes leadership of the Guomindang (National Peoples’
Party)
10.1927 - Kai-shek turns against the Chinese Communist Party;
defeats most of the regional warlords and establishes
dictatorship
CCOT Prompt
Analyze the political change and continuity in
China between 1899 and 1927.
Russia/USSR
Matt, Vlad, Mary
Dates
-1861-Emancipation of serfs
-1894-Czar Nicholas II was crowned czar
-1904-Russo-Japanese War
-1905-Bloody sunday
-1906-Duma formed
-1907-British-russian entente
-1914-Start of World War 1
-1917-October Revolutions
-1917-February revolution
Dates
-1917-civil war between reds and whites
-1918-Russia withdraws from WW1(Treaty of
Brest-Litovsk)
-1921- New economic policies in russia
-1870-1924-Lenin's life span
-1922-Stalin in power
-1928-Trotsky exiled, Five year plan introduced
by Stalin
CCOT Prompt
Analyze social and political change and
continuity in Russia from 1894-1928.