AP World History Study Guide Ch 27 Russia and Japan; Industrialization outside the West

1) Which regions defied the common pattern of growing Western domination in the nineteenth century?

2) Describe the economic development of Russia andJapan to 1900 , especially in comparison to the West?

3) What was a significant difference between Russia and Japan in how they responded to the challenges and innovations posed by the West?

4) What was a significant similarity between Japan and Russia during the period of industrialization prior to 1914?

5) Russia's fear about Westernization in the first decades of the nineteenth century was rooted inresponse to what event?

6) What nations were linked together in the Holy Alliance that grouped conservative monarchies together in defense of religion and the status quo in 1815?

7) What was the name of the Russian revolt inspired by Western values in 1825?

8) What accounts for Russia's lack of significant revolution in 1830 and 1848?

9) Describe the extent and attitude of Russian territorial expansion is most accurate?

10) Describes the Russian economy at the beginning of the nineteenth century 

11) What war in the mid-nineteenth century demonstrated Russia's widening gap with the West?

12) What accounted for the West's victory over Russia in the Crimean War?

13) What tsar began the process of reform in the nineteenth century?

14) What was the motive behind the consideration in the reform of serfdom?

15) In what year were Russian serfs emancipated?

16) What were the serfs granted in the emancipation?

17) What were the najor reforms introduced in Russia in the 1860s and 1870s? 

18) What was the first step toward industrialization in Russia?

19) The Russian minister of finance from 1892 to 1903 responsible for much economic modernization was? 

20) How much of Russian industry was foreign owned by 1900? 

21) By 1900, how successful was the Russian industrialization program?

22) During the Russian program of industrialization, what was one factor in Russia’s favor? 

23) What were the reasons for the rising tide of unrest in Russia during the second half of the nineteenth century? 

24) What was the general goal of the Russian intelligentsia?

25) Russian radicals who sought the abolition of all formal government were called? 

26) What was the chief political method used by the anarchists to achieve reform?

27) How did Lenin impactRussian Marxism?

28) Lenin's approach was adopted by the groups of Russian Marxists known as? 

29) What factors contributed to working-class radicalism in late nineteenth century Russia?

30) Failure in what war led to the Russian revolution of 1905?

31) What group did the imperial government appeal to in the reforms following the revolution of 1905?

32) What minister was responsible for enacting reforms for the peasantry following the revolution of 1905?

33) The Duma was? 

34) Peasants who responded to the reforms of 1905 by engaging in entrepreneurial activity including increasing production and buying up land were called? 

35) Which Russian developments were adopted in other East European states?

36) Who were nineteenth century Russian novelists?

37) Describe how the Tokugawa Shogunate in the nineteenth century ruled Japan?

38) Describe Tokugawa intellectual and cultural life?

39) Which groups in Tokugawa Japan advocated interest in Western scientific advance?

40) Who was responsible for the forced opening of Japan in 1853?

41) In what year was a new emperor, Mutsuhito but commonly called "Meiji" or "Enlightened One," proclaimed, signaling the end of a major political crisis?

42) What were advantages of Japan over China in the competition to assume leadership and to establish industrialization in Asia?

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43) What were the Japanese political reforms in the period of the Meiji state?

44) What was the primary difference between the reformed Japanese government and reformed Russian institutions by 1914?

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45) One of the major similarities between Japanese and Russian industrialization was the fact that?

46) Huge industrial combines put together in Japan by the 1890s were called? 

47) Why did Japan need exports so badly prior to World War I?

48) Which were Western cultural characteristics adopted by large numbers of Japanese?

49) Which religions gained new adherents in industrialized Japan?

50) What were signs of significant social stress in industrialized Japan?

World Civilizations The Global Experience, Stearns et al…Advanced Placement Edition