HIST 3340 Lecture 3: World History Test #3 Notes (HIST 1112)
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Latin america revolution: struggles between creoles & peninsulares (saw themselves as different) Inspired by american and french revolutions (high taxes and no political power: napoleon"s conquest of spain and portugal catalyst to fall of overseas empires that lasted 300 years. Simon bolivar: goal to create republics in south america, battle of boyaca, leads independence of columbia (1810), venezuela (1811), ecuador (1822, drafts constitutions and laws in new nations. Jose de san martin: led revolt creating independent argentina, crosses andes and liberates chile, overthrows viceroy of peru with help of thomas cochrane, bolivar finishes liberation. We didn"t have a federal government; we didn"t have a president or commander in chief. New technologies: makes killing easier, machine guns, tanks, airplanes, submarines, poisonous gases. Russian revolution: humiliating defeat to japan and bad economy, bloody sunday (1905, 300 protesters outside winter palace, army opens fire killing 1000.
