World History II

Adonayi Netsereab                                                                                                          Professor Andrews April 11, 2020 Pandemic According to Google, "a pandemic is a global outbreak of disease". Pandemics happen when a new virus emerges to infect people and can spread between people sustainably. Because there is little to no pre-existing immunity against the new virus, it spreads worldwide. The majority of the time pandemics have been caused by influenza or otherwise known as the flu.  An example of a recent and deadly pandemic known in history was the Spanish Flu of 1918.  The Spanish Flu infected more than 500 million people worldwide about one-third of the world’s po...

2.  What was distinctive about the end of Europe’s African and Asian empires compared to other cases of imperial disintegration? The end of Europe’s African and Asian empires due to the mobilization of the masses around a nationalist ideology (1088). “America threw off British, French, Spanish, or Portuguese rule during the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries (1088). The African and Asian empire’s struggles were different, not only about political independence but also the way their cultures had been deluged and besmirch during the colonel era. “HumanKind was naturally divided into distinct peoples of nations each of which deserved an independent state of its own (1089). “African and Asian movements were shared with these other ends of empire stories the ideal of national-self determination” (1089). Human beings were naturally divided as into-nations which brought which was proclaimed by the winning side of both world wars. Empires that had no territories came...

The recent Pandemic happened between January 1918-December 1920. More than 500 million people were infected, more than a quarter of the world's population. An estimation of 50 million people died worldwide with around 675,000 occurring in the United States. The reason it was called the Spanish Flu because the Pandemic received greater press attention after it moved from France to Spain. The name of the virus which affected the people is called Influenza A virus subtype H1N1.  Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 is the subtype of Influenza A Virus that was the common cause of human influenza (flu). It's also known as the swine flu because in the past, the people who caught it had direct contact with pigs. You could also receive the virus through birds as well. People were vulnerable to the Spanish Flu because of tight living conditions, poor health, and barely any food. During that time there were no effective drugs or vaccines to treat this disease. Citizens were ordered to wear mas...

From 1914-1918 there was a Great War called the World War or World War 1 which started at the beginning of the twentieth century, changing the course of history.  The war was followed by the economic meltdown of the Great Depression, by the rise of Nazi Germany and the horror of the holocaust. During the three decades, Western Europe for more than a century the dominant and dominating center of the modern "world system" far beyond Europe itself. The Great Powers of Europe completed intensely for colonies, spheres of influence, and superiority in armaments. School, mass media, and military service had convinced millions of ordinary Europeans that their national identities were profoundly and personally meaningful.  All of the Great Powers had substantial standing armies, except for Britain, which relied on conscription. The aftermath of the war brought substantial social and cultural changes to Ordinary Europeans and Americans. The war also transformed international political ...

What accounts for the massive peasant rebellions of 19 th century China? There were many things accounted for the massive peasant rebellions in China during the nineteenth century. One of the things that accounted for massive peasant rebellions during the nineteenth century was the growing population in China. “Its robust economy and American food crops had enabled substantial population growth from about 100 million people in 1685 to some 430 million in 1853” (901). The state was increasingly unable to effectively perform its many functions, such as tax collections, flood control, social warfare, and public security. The first half of the nineteenth-century European military pressure and economic penetration which disrupted internal trade routes created substantial unemployment and raised peasant taxes. At the beginning of the late eighteenth century, such rebellions drew on a variety of peasant grievances and found leadership in charismatic figures proclaiming a millenarian r...

  1.  In what ways did the Industrial Revolution shape the character of 19 th century European imperialism? The Industrial Revolution Shaped the character of the 19th century through European Imperialism in many ways. During the time of the Industrial Revolution, “The enormous productivity of Industrial Technology and Europe’s growing affluence now created the need for extensive raw materials and agricultural products”(854). Europeans traded for extensive raw materials and agricultural products which changed the economic and social life. “ Between 1910 and 1913, Britain was sending about half of its savings overseas as foreign investment” (854-855). Europeans trading with different countries all across the world made their economy more powerful. “Wealthy Europeans also saw social benefits to foreign markets, which served to keep Europe’s factories humming and it’s workers employed” (855). Not only did the Industrial Revolution helped Europe’s economy making it more power...