Section outline

  • THEMATIC FOCUS

    Governance GOV
    A variety of internal and external factors contribute to state formation, expansion, and decline. Governments maintain order through a variety of administrative institutions, policies, and procedures, and governments obtain, retain, and exercise power in different ways and for different purposes.

    LEARNING OBJECTIVE

    Unit 7: Learning Objective A
    Explain how internal and external factors contributed to change in various states after 1900.

    HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS

    KC-6.2.I
    The West dominated the global political order at the beginning of the 20th century, but both land-based and maritime empires gave way to new states by the century’s end.

    KC-6.2.I.A
    The older, land-based Ottoman, Russian, and Qing empires collapsed due to a combination of internal and external factors. These changes in Russia eventually led to communist revolution.

    KC-6.2.II.D
    States around the world challenged the existing political and social order, including the Mexican Revolution that arose as a result of political crisis.