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- SACI
- South African Indian Conference founded by Gandhi to organize Indians to demand basic human, political, and economic rights for the South Asian community, a non-violent form of resistance against white discrimination.
- ottoman empire
- it joined WWI on Germany's side
- Cecil Rhodes
- became prime minister in 1880
- Franco-Prussian War
- Prussia and Germany combinded together and fought France for more land in 1870 and won
- Jan van Riebeeck
- he set up the first permanent European settlement at Cape of Good Hope on behalf of the Dutch East India Company 1672.
- Nelson Mandela
- first black president; freed from jail by F. W. DeKlerk
- Lusitania
- luxury ocean liner sunk by the Germans with Americans on board
- Nominating Convention
- offically nominated the leader/ all demicraticts or republicans get together and nominate one person for the election
- Suez Canal
- a canal that connected the Mediterranea Sea and the Red Sea 1869
- conscription
- a military draft
- Deep Mining
- The type required to recover gold needed thousands of workers and a great deal of capital for machinery. Work was difficult and dangerous.
- MK
- "spear of the nation" in Zulu led by Nelson Mandela to launch sabotage campaigns against the government. Not made public in order to protect the ANC who launched this group.
- David Livingston
- he was a British doctor and explored Africa
- Triple Alliance
- Germany, Austria-Hungry, and Italy
- imperialism
- the extension of one nations power over other lands
- Boer War
- was the war between the British and the Bores 1899-1902 Britain won and led to the formation of union SA
- Sharoeville Massacre
- was small clashed between the police and protestors
- puddling
- a process developed by Henry Cort where coke, derived from coal, was used to burn away impurities in pig iron (crud iron) to make high-quality iron
- Apartheid
- a racial discrimination system that kept all races separate from the whites in every way; all schools, housing, jobs and transportation were separate. Blacks were not allowed to vote.
- Self-determination
- principle of the PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE where nations determine for themselves
- Schlieffen Plan
- German army to make a vast encircling movement through Belgium into North France for a quick victory
- Boer War
- LOOK IT UP!!
- socialism
- someone in response to industrialism
- Lawrence of Arabia
- a British officer who urged the princes of Arabia to revolt against the Ottoman Empire
- Cape of Good Hope
- became a very important port to get supplies for ships; good trading.
- Battle of Blood River
- Zulus vs. Bores
- Otto von Bismark
- the legislative opposition to the military reforms
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Was kill by a terroist group called Black Hand and was the direct cause or WWI
- Treason Trial
- 4 years/ government was trying to prove the Freedom Charter was communist but was unsuccessful
- F.W. de Klerk
- president of SA let Mandela out of jail and saw the economy falling or saw the wrong in apartheid
- nationalism
- loyalty and devotion to a nation
- liberalism
- the idea that people should be free form restraint as possible; a belief in the protection of civil liberties, or the basic rights of all people
- Triple Entente
- France, Russia, and Great Britian
- Poqo
- militant wing of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) meaning "pure"
- Proletariat
- working class
- King Leopold II
- King of Beligum
- Mandate
- a written order
- Dutch East India Company
- taken over by the British, the bankrupt Dutch East India Co established first settlement at Cape of Good Hope for trade (private)
- Black Hand
- was a terroist group planning to kill Ferdinand...
- Alfred Nobel
- LOOK IT UP!
- 11/11/18
- Germany agreed to a truce or ARMISTICE so the war was over
- De Beers Consolidated
- name of diamond industry which Cecil Rhodes discovered in the late 19th century and changed the image of a diamond forever
- South African Republic
- United British and Boer Topic
- Karl Marx
- thinks capitalism will fall socialism will conquer;
- International Law
- LOOK IT UP!!!!!!
- First battle of the Marne
- 20 miles outside Paris the French halted the German advance and the beginning of the Western Front and trench warfare
- Muhammad Ali
- established Egypt and tryed to modernized Egypt
- 1913 Natives' Land Act
- they formed the African National Congress (ANC)
- Wilson's 14 Points
- the 14 points Wilson presented to the US Congress showing the basis for a peace settlement that he believed justified the enormous military struggle
- Great Trek
- from 1836-1850 thousand of Afrikaners migrated north out of what was now the British Cape Colony.
- Protectorate
- a political unit that depends on another state for its protection
- League of Nations
- created by Woodrow Wilson to prevent future wars