AP Euro Semesters 1 & 2
Kristallnacht
"Night of Broken Glass"; 1938 pogrom against Jewish communities. Nazi gangs smashed Jewish stores, burned synagogues, and killed dozens of Jews
Vichy France
"Puppet" government in southern France; basically run by Germany during the German occupation of the rest of France
Gulag
"Re-education camps"; forced labor camps used by the Soviet regime to punish political opponents
il Duce
"The Leader"; Mussolini's nickname as the strongman of Italy
Social Darwinism
"The poor were the ill-fated weak; the prosperous were the chosen strong" sounds like which "ism"?
King Leopold II of Belgium
"The sea bathes our coast, the world lies before us. Steam and electricity have annihilated distance, and all the nonappropriated lands on the surface of the globe can become the field of our operations and of our success."
Leo Tolstoy (Russian)
"War and Peace" had a central message about human love, trust, and family ties. Who wrote it?
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
"Wrote Oration on the Dignity of Man," which has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance."
Blousen noirs
(Black Jackets) French youth inspired by James Dean and Marlon Brando who had rebellious clothing and cynical attitudes.
Charles V
- HREmperor; Catholic - Would not annul Henry VIII because he was Catherine of Aragon's nephew - Refused the Augsburg Confession, made all Protestants convert back and give up their land
Muhammad Ali
- built his state on the strength of a large, powerful army - reformed the government - cultivated new lands - improved communication networks ...e g y p t
Pope Paul III
- called the Council of Trent - said that church tradition and Scripture were equal in importance - heaven: faith and good works - established the Holy Office
Galileo
- consolidated the experimental method - formulated the law of inertia - found four moons of Jupiter - waited a while to publish work bc didn't want to be called a heretic -...that didn't work, he had to recant
Ivan III (the Great)
- declares autonomy of Moscow - borrows Mongol practices in Russian society - e.g. boyars
Jacques Cartier
- first to explore Canada - St. Lawrence River - Claimed region for France
Jethro Tull
- invented the seed drill
Henry M. Stanley
- sent by Leopold II to Congo - established trading stations - signed unfair treaties with African chiefs - planted the Belgian flag
Charles II
- takes the throne (Restoration) once the English people are tired of a military dictatorship
J.A. Hobson, Imperialism
- the rush to acquire colonies was due to the economic needs of unregulated capitalism, but no payoff for entire country - the quest for empire diverted popular attention away from domestic reform (gap between rich and poor)
Louis XIV
- the sun king - decreased power of nobility by using court, parties, spies - Colbert- mercantilist finance manager - Revoked Edict of Nantes - many wars, bankrupt France slowly
War of Austrian Succession
- the war in which Maria Theresa gives basically all of Silesia to the Prussians
Baldassare Castiglione
- wrote The Courtier - nobleman
Boer War
1899-1902; a war in which the British defeated Dutch Boers in South Africa
Putting-out system
18th-century method of distributing materials to workers, who processed them and returned the finished products to the merchant capitalist
Lateran Agreement
1929 agreement in which Mussolini recognized the Vatican as an independent state, and gave it heavy financial support in return for public support from the pope
Nuremberg Laws
1935 statutes defining the status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood.
Romanticism
19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason
Boxer Rebellion
A 1900 uprising in China aimed at ending foreign influence in the country.
Battle of the Somme
A 1916 British offensive designed to take some pressure off the defenders at Verdun that saw many lives lost with little gain
Balfour Declaration
A 1917 British statement that declared British support for a National Home for the Jewish people in Palestine
Sergei Kirov
A Bolshevik party member whose assassination ("killed by fascist agents within the party") in 1934 was used by Stalin to justify the Great Purge
Zollverein
A German customs union, designed to eliminate tariffs between German states
Battle of Verdun
A German offensive in 1916 that cost 700,000 lives while gaining virtually no territory
King Otto I
A German prince who was a descendant of Greek royalty (including the Comnenus dynasty), he became the first king of a newly independent Greece
Methodism
A Protestant revival movement started by John Wesley, whose members were known for pious devotion
Pietism
A Protestant revival movement that emphasized a warm & emotional religion & the power of Christian rebirth in everyday affairs
Marshall Plan
A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)
People's Budget
A bill to increase social welfare spending in Britain by taxing the rich more and setting up pensions and national health insurance
Continental System
A blockade imposed by Napoleon to halt all trade between continental Europe and Britain, thereby weakening the British economy and military
Wet-nursing
A business in which women were paid to breast-feed other women's babies
Meiji Restoration
A chain of events that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji; resulted in modernization of the country
Russo-Japanese War
A conflict fought over Korea, and a loss for the Russians. It marked the first time that an eastern nation defeated one of Europe's great powers
Dreyfus Affair
A divisive case in which a Jewish captain was falsely accused of treason. Brought forth anti-Semitism among some and resulted in a greater separation of church & state in France
Laissez faire economics
A doctrine that called for little to no gov't interference in the economy
Quinine
A drug used for fighting malaria and other fevers; allowed for the conquest of Africa
Nuclear family
A family group consisting of parents & their children with no other relatives
Debt peonage
A form of serfdom that allowed a planter or rancher to keep his workers or slaves in perpetual debt bondage by periodically advancing food, shelter, and a little money
Bastille
A fortress prison in Paris. An attack on this structure on July 14, 1789 became a rallying event for the revolutionaries, and is celebrated as their independence day today.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
A freed slave who first joined the Spanish against the French, but then became the commander of French forces on the island. He was defeated by General Leclerc, arrested, and sent to France in 1802.
Separate Spheres
A gender division of labor with the wife at home and the husband as wage earner outside the home
Tariff protection
A gov't's way to aiding its own economy by laying high taxes on imported goods from other countries
Philosophes
A group of French intellectuals who said they were bringing the light of knowledge to the world.
Conciliarists
A group of church members who believed that a council had the power to elect and depose of popes.
Boxer Rebellion
A group of conservative, patriotic Chinese who blamed their country's ills on foreigners. Killed foreign missionaries, Chinese Christians, defeated by Western armies.
Gosplan
A huge State Planning Commission created to set production goals and control flow of raw and finished materials
Battle of Stalingrad
A key Soviet victory during World War II that ended Hitler's effort to conquer the USSR; turning point on the Eastern Front
Tea Act of 1773
A law passed by Parliament allowing the East India Company to have a virtual monopoly on the sale of tea to the American colonies
Stamp Act of 1765
A law passed by Parliament taxing a long list of items, mainly paper-based things like contracts and newspapers
Fuhrer
A leader-dictator title used by Hitler during his reign over Germany
Estates General
A legislative body in prerevolutionary France made up of representatives of each of the three classes, or estates; it was called into session in 1789 for the first time since 1614
Imre Nagy
A liberal Communist reformer who was installed as the new Prime Minister of Hungary by Students and workers in October 1956. He proposed to democratize the country. He was executed by the Soviets.
Jose de San Martin
A liberal-minded military commander and South American revolutionary who defeated Spanish forces in Argentina and Chile.
Stream-of-consciousness technique
A literary format that uses interior monologue to explore the human psyche
voting rights for all men
A major goal of the English Chartists was:
Amerigo Vespucci
A mapmaker and explorer who said that the lands being explored to Europe's west were, in fact, a new continent, so America was named after him.
Council of Trent
A meeting held to discuss and reform practices of the Catholic Church. It reaffirmed some of the core beliefs of the Church while reforming other practices and cracking down on abuses
Berlin Conference
A meeting of European leaders held in 1884 in order to lay down some basic rules for imperialist competition in sub-Saharan Africa
Open Field System
A method of organizing rural agriculture in which the land was divided into several strips with no hedges or fences
Girondists
A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793
Girondins
A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.
Girondists
A moderate group that fought for control of the French National Convention in 1793.
Fascism
A movement characterized by extreme, often expansionist, nationalism, antisocialism, a dynamic leader, and glorification of war and the military
Zionism
A movement founded in the 1890s to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
James Cook
A navigator and ship captain who explored and claimed land in Australia for England in 1770
Community controls
A pattern of cooperation and common action in a traditional village that sought to uphold the economic, social, & moral stability of a close-knit community
Existentialism
A philosophy that stresses the meaninglessness of existence and the importance of the individual in searching for moral values in an uncertain world; popular on the European continent
Nativism
A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
Populism
A political approach that seeks to disrupt the existing social order by solidifying and mobilizing the animosity of the "commoner" or "the people" against "privileged elites" and the "establishment"
Jacobins
A political club in Revolutionary France whose members were well-educated radical republicans
Jacobin club
A political club in revolutionary France whose members were well-educated radical republicans.
Socialism
A political ideology that pushed for greater social equality, state regulation of property, and a move toward more cooperation & sense of community
Neocolonialism
A postcolonial system that perpetuates Western economic exploitation in former colonial territories.
Spanish Inquisition
A program ordered by the Spanish monarchy to investigate and eliminate heresy in the kingdom
Eugenics
A pseudoscientific doctrine that says selective breeding of humans can improve the general characteristics of a national population; helped inspire Nazi ideology of "race and space"
Chartist Movement
A push by the working class to obtain the right to vote for all men, and limit the workday to 10 hours
Totalitarianism
A radical dictatorship that exercises complete claims over the beliefs and behavior of its citizens by taking control of econ, social, intellectual, & cultural aspects of society
Treaty of Paris (1763)
A resolution to the Seven Years' War; it gave a lot of territory over to the victorious British, notably the Ohio River Valley
Thermidorean Reaction
A response to the violence of the Reign of Terror in 1794, resulting in the execution of Robespierre and the loosening of economic controls
Jansenism
A sect of Catholicism originating with Cornelius Jansen that emphasized the heavy weight of original sin & accepted predestination
Navigation Acts
A series of English laws that controlled the import of goods to Britain & British colonies
Navigation Acts
A series of English laws that controlled the import of goods to Britain and British colonies.
hundred days of reform
A series of Western-style reforms launched in 1898 by the Chinese government in an attempt to meet the foreign challenge.
"great purge"
A series of show trials in the late 1930s in which false evidence was used to incriminate party administrators and Red Army leaders under Stalin's watch
Tanzimat
A set of reforms designed to remake the Ottoman Empire on a Western European model
Popular Front
A short-lived New Deal-inspired alliance of left wing political groups that launched a far-reaching program of social reform in France
Paris Commune
A socialist takeover of Paris in 1870. It was ultimately crushed by French army forces, but inspired later socialist revolts, such as the Russian Revolution of 1917
cottage industry
A stage of industrial development in which rural workers used hand tools in their homes to manufacture goods on a large scale in a market
Niccolo Machiavelli
A statesman of Florence who advocated a strong central government in his most famous work, "The Prince"
Coup d'etat
A sudden overthrow of the government by a small minority force
RADAR
A system that uses reflected radio waves to detect objects and measure their distance and speed
Carnival
A time of reveling and excess in Catholic Europe preceding the time of Lent
Trench warfare
A type of fighting used in WW I behind rows of dug out defensive fortifications, mines, and barbed wire
Hyperinflation
A very rapid rise in the price level of goods; seen in Weimar Germany in the 1920s
neo-Europes
About 3/4 of total European investment went to a) other European countries AND b) what?
building public works projects
According to Adam Smith, what SHOULD be a responsibility of the government?
the Slavic Race
According to Hitler's New Order, which European race was considered subhuman along with the Jews?
Black Africans
After losing access to slave trading from the Black Sea, the Genoese obtained who as slaves?
unofficial groups were seizing and executing alleged collaborators on their own
After the war, why did national governments quickly establish authority over questions of guilt and punishment for those who had collaborated with the Nazi regime?
all life had gradually evolved from a common ancestral origin
After years of scientific investigation and reflection, Charles Darwin concluded that
Bretton Woods Agreement
Agreement in 1944 that linked Western currencies to the US dollar and established the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to facilitate free markets and world trade.
Operation Torch
Allied forces invaded North Africa from the west, trapping Axis troops in the middle of Brits coming from the east. Helped take N. Africa, which will be used as a launching pad toward Italy
1st Battle of the Marne
Allied victory early in the war that halted the Schlieffen Plan and began a stalemate on the Western Front. Associated with the Parisian taxis used to shuttle troops to the battle
Leopold II
Along with Frederick Wilhelm II, this monarch issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, in part to support his sister, the queen of France.
Franco-Prussian War
Alsace and Lorraine were desired by the French at the outset of WWI. They had been lost after what previous war?
using their numerical superiority over the British settlers to take over political power
Although the Afrikaners were defeated in the Boer War, they regained power by
Truman Doctrine
America's policy geared to containing communism to those countries already under Soviet control.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
American General who began in North Africa and became the Commander of Allied forces in Europe; architect of the D-Day invasions
Benjamin Franklin
American ambassador to Paris during the war. He was an overall intelligent Enlightenment thinker
Boston Tea Party
American colonists tossed East India Co. tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act
2.5
Amount, in billions of gold marks, the Germans were expected to pay the Allies in reparations each year
John Wesley
An Anglican priest who founded Methodism to spread a message of conversion & salvation for all
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
An English aristocrat who brought the practice of inoculation back to England from the Ottoman Empire in the 1720s
Concordat of 1801
An agreement between Pope Pius VII & Napoleon granting French Catholics the right to practice their religion, but allowing government control of the French Church
Olaudah Equiano
An antislavery activist who wrote a famous account of his enslavement. Used economic-based arguments
Guillotine
An apparatus designed to make executions more humane and egalitarian
Dadaism
An artistic movement of the 1920s & 1930s that attacked all accepted standards of art and behavior and delighted in outrageous conduct
Guild
An association of merchants or artisans that oversees the practice of a particular craft in that town
COMECON
An economic organization of Communist states intended to rebuild the East Bloc independently of the West
COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
An economic organization of Communist states intended to rebuild the East Bloc independently of the West
Revisionism
An effort by moderate socialists to update Marxist doctrines to reflect the realities of the time.
Incan Empire
An empire in Modern day Peru conquered by Francisco Pizarro and conquistadors in the early 16th century
Grand Empire
An enlarged France, a number of satellite kingdoms, and the independent but allied states of Austria, Prussia, and Russia
Europeans justified imperialism through an ideology of cultural and racial superiority
An historian is most likely to use this image (a German missionary school in Africa) as evidence that
Marxism
An influential political program that called for a working-class revolution to overthrow the capitalist state and establish a Communist state
Kellogg-Briand Pact
An international agreement signed by 15 countries in 1928 to renounce war as an instrument of foreign policy and settle disputes peacefully
Battle of Gallipoli
An offensive against the Ottomans by British, French, and ANZAC troops. Failed to secure the Dardanelles
League of Nations
An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace.
Whites
Anti-Bolshevik coalition in the Russian Civil War
NATO
Anti-Soviet military alliance of Western governments
Count Camillo Benso di Cavour
Architect of Italian unification. He set up a nominally democratic government headed by King Victor Emmanuel II after bringing the Italian states together in 1860.
Modernism
Artistic and cultural movements of the late 1800s /early 1900s typified by radical experimentation that challenged traditional forms of expression
Socialist realism
Artistic movement that followed the dictates of the Communist ideals, enforced by state control in the USSR and East Bloc countries in the 1950s and 60s
Surrealism
Artistic style influenced by Freudian psychology, portraying images of the unconscious and attempting to call attention to the bankruptcy of mainstream society in order to change the world
Impressionism
Artistic style whose adherents looked to the world around them for subject matter and tried to portray their sensory "impressions" in their work
Erich Ludendorff
As German chief of staff in 1917, he resumed URSW in the hopes that Germany could starve Britain into submission and end the stalemate
Heinrich Himmler
As head of the Nazi SS corps, he was responsible for carrying out Hitler's "final solution" during the war
a reading revolution
As more books were made available, the old style of consuming information changed and Europe experienced
new Imperialism
As the British lost their early economic lead from industrialization, they turned to ______, causing a chain reaction of other European countries to follow suit.
Alfred von Schlieffen
As the German chief of staff in the 1890s, he drafted a plan should Germany find itself in a war with both France and Russia simultaneously
Leon Trotsky
As war commissar, he was responsible for helping to lead the Red Army, and to instill discipline and party doctrine within its ranks.
The Habsburgs
At the beginning of the 17th century, the Netherlands was controlled by the Spanish branch of which dynasty?
Prince Klemens von Metternich
Austria's foreign minister and architect of the Congress of Vienna. He was very conservative, and tried to restore Europe to its pre-1789 status.
Adolf Hitler
Austrian born Dictator of Germany, implemented Fascism and caused WWII and Holocaust.
Adolf Hitler
Austrian born Dictator of Germany, implemented Fascism and caused WWII and Holocoust.
Kurt von Schuschnigg
Austrian chancellor who tried to resist Nazi encroachment, but could not prevent his country from being taken over by Hitler
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher who later immigrated to England and brought with his logical positivist ideas. "Of what one cannot speak, of that one must keep silent"
Friedrich Engels
Author of "The Condition of the Working Class in England" and co-author of "The Communist Manifesto" with Karl Marx
Adam Smith
Author of "The Wealth of Nations" and father of capitalism
Thomas Malthus
Author of the "Essay on the Principle of Population" which argued that population was outgrowing food supply
Class-consciousness
Awareness of belonging to a distinct social & economic class whose interests might conflict with those of other classes
3
Baron de Montesquieu argued that the powers of government should be divided into ___ branches
3
Baron de Montesquieu argued that the powers of government should be divided into ___ branches.
The Catholic Reformation
Baroque art is linked to:
Jawaharlal Nehru
Became India's prime minister after India's independence. He believed in nonalignment.
Napoleon III
Became emperor of France in 1852; presided over the modernization of Paris. Ultimately would be captured and forced into exile as a result of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.
Harry S Truman
Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb
Harry S. Truman
Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb
Enlightenment ideals of progress, reason, and individual rights
Before 1914, most people belived in
Logical Positivism
Belief that a concept is meaningful only if it can be empirically verified, and therefore rejects most of the concerns of traditional philosophy as nonsense; popular in English-speaking countries
Kulaks
Better-off peasants who were stripped of land and livestock under Stalin and were generally not permitted to join collective farms
Kulturkampf
Bismarck's campaign against the Catholic Church to undermine Catholics' loyalty to the pope in favor of the Kaiser
Reds
Bolsheviks and their supporters in the Russian Civil War
true
Both Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli married and had children after breaking from Catholicism.
Louis XVIII
Bourbon monarch who was made king in 1814 after Napoleon's defeat. He was the younger brother of Louis XVI and acted as a moderate reformer in his decade of rule.
France
Britain's greatest rival for influence in India in the eighteenth century was:
Quadruple Alliance
Britain, Russia, Prussia, & Austria
Royal Air Force (RAF)
British Air Force
David Lloyd George
British PM during WWI. During the Paris Peace Conference, he was concerned with maintaining the British Empire
Neville Chamberlain
British Prime Minister who gave in to Hitler's demands in 1930s in order to preserve peace
William and John Cockerill
British factory owners who brought trade secrets to the European continent to establish factories in places like Belgium
Appeasement
British policy granting concessions to Hitler in order to avoid war
Rudyard Kipling
British writer who wrote of "The White Man's Burden" and justified imperialism
signori or oligarchies
By 1300, most of the Italian city-states were ruled by either:
the idea gradually grew more accepted, though slightly dampened by the economic fallout from WWII
By the 1990s, the idea of women leading lives independent of men had undergone what type of change?
The Netherlands
By the early 17th century, which was the greatest commercial power in Europe?
that their circumstances gave them different interests and characteristics from those in Spain
By the end of the 18th century, the elites who were born and raised in Spanish colonial society came to believe:
Marshall Plan
COMECON was a program created in response to which postwar policy?
Pugachev's Rebellion
Catherine the great tried to improve the conditions of the poor, but reverse course because of
Pugachev's rebellion
Cathierne the Great tried to improve the conditions of the poor, but reversed course because of
Transubstantiation
Catholic belief that the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Christ.
Cornelius Jansen
Catholic bishop of Ypres who called for a return to the austere, strict Christianity of St. Augustine. Accepted predestination was outlawed by Rome
Weimar Republic
Civilian government in Germany that replaced William II and the imperial gov't in 1918. Forced to accept the Treaty of Versailles
impressionist
Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Mary Cassatt were all examples of ____ painters, in that they attempted to portray the world around them in a single fleeting moment of color and light
Atlantic Wall
Coastal defense built by Nazis surrounding coast of Europe and Scandinavia, designed to repel invasion by the Allies in Western Europe
First Continental Congress
Colonial delegates met at this gathering in Philadelphia to try to resolve conflicts with the British government peacefully
Big Science
Combination of theoretical work with sophisticated engineering in a large bureaucratic organization to increase funding for technological advancements
Matthew Perry
Commodore of the US Navy who opened up Japan with the Treaty of Kanagawa. Practiced gun boat diplomacy
Korean War
Communist North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950. This war kept Korea divided. It further stimulated economic growth.
Josip Broz Tito
Communist chief of Yugoslavia who stood up to Stalin in 1948 and kept his country independent of the Soviet Bloc
Potsdam Conference
Conference in July 1945. Demands for free elections (refused by Stalin), turn attention to the defeat of Japan
Tehran Conference
Conference in November of 1943. Talked about strategies to win the war, Germany first then Japan, and advocated for a second front in France.
Battle of Trafalgar
Conflict at which Napoleon's Mediterranean fleet was destroyed by England. This made it impossible for France to invade England.
Seven Years' War
Conflict between Britain & France fought between 1756-1763 all over the world, particularly over colonies in the NW and India
Opium Wars
Conflict between Britain and China in 1839 over the opening of China to foreign trade; Britain wins and China weakens
Crimean War
Conflict from 1853-56 that featured an alliance of GB, France, Ottoman Empire, & Sardinia defeating Russia
Total war
Conflict in which all a country's resources go to the war effort. Distinctions between soldier & civilian are blurred, gov'ts plan and control the economy & social life
Seven Years' War
Conflict that succeeded the War of Austrian Succession. In this war, Austria tried to win back Silesia, while France took on Britain across the globe, notably the Fr. & Indian War in N. America
Klemens von Metternich
Conservative foreign minister of Austria and the architect of the Congress of Vienna
Fidel Castro
Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008
Jan Hus
Czech theologian who deinied papal authority, called for translations of the Bible into the local Czech lanugage, and declared indulgences useless - around 1400, before Luther
June 6, 1944
D-Day; A turning point of WW II at which Allied forces successfully opened up a front on French soil by taking the Normandy beaches
Soren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian who wrote that it was impossible to prove the existence of God, but that people must take a leap of faith and accept God
Act of Supremacy
Declared the king (Henry VIII) the supreme head of the Church of England in 1534
Ho Chi Minh
Defeated the French army fighting in Vietnam in 1954.
Charivari
Degrading public rituals used by village communities to police personal behavior & maintain moral standards
Afrikaners
Descendants of the Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony in southern Africa
- 1337-1453, intermittent fighting between England and France - Crecy - English longbows - French won because of Joan of Arc @ Orleans
Describe the Hundred Years' War
interpreted Italian ideas about and attitudes toward classical antiqutiy and humanism in terms of their own religious traditions
Describe the Northern Renaissance
They believed that improved submarines could could starve Britain into submission before the U.S. could come to Britain's rescue
During WWI, why did the German military command recommence submarine warfare in the Atlantic despite knowing that it would lead the US to enter the war against them?
Greece
During recent recession, which country struggled to receive financial aid from the IMF and EU?
generally supported their foreign masters
During the First World War, the African colonial subjects of Britain and France...
wanted to stop the French monarchy's centralizing efforts
During the Hundred Years' War, the English Kings were supported by some French barons because the latter:
Danish Phase
During which phase did Christian IV lise to the armies of Albrecht von Wallenstein?
Cornelius Vermuyden
Dutch engineer who created new farmlands by draining swamps in the Dutch Republic & England
Cornelius Vermuyden
Dutch engineer who developed successful techniques to drain swamp lands
Theory of special relativity
Einstein's theory that time and space are relative to the observer and that only the speed of light remains constant
Edward Jenner
English doctor who developed a smallpox vaccine in the 1790s
William Shakespeare
English dramatist and poet; considered one of the greatest writers in the English language. Wrote eloquently and sometimes humorously to capture the human condition.
James Cook
English explorer who claimed the east coast of Australia in 1770. He would later be killed in the Hawaiian islands in 1779, after charting much of the Pacific Ocean
Oliver Cromwell
English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War. Turned England into a military dictatorship, briefly.
Thomas More
English humanist who described an ideal society in Utopia
Mines Act of 1842
English law prohibiting underground work for all women and girls, as well as boys under 10 years old
Charles I
English monarch who fought Parliament during English Civil War and was executed for treason. - married a Catholic princess and imposed Book of Common prayer upon Scots - not happy
James I
English monarch who ignored constitutional principles and asserted the divine right of kings.
Daniel Defoe
English novelist & economic writer who enthusiastically endorsed cottage industry as a way for people to supplement their family incomes
Battle of Peterloo
Enormous protest in Manchester that was broken up with violence, and represented the British govt's determination to repress dissenters who were pushing for more representation and liberal reform
Enclosure and land reclamation efforts - more agricultural- helped farmers grow more food for people to consume and buy - industry - and created a surplus, and because people were well-fed, they didn't get sick as often and population skyrocketed
Essay question: What was the relationship among agriculture, industry, and population in the 18th century?
- indulgences: people didn't agree with buying one's way into heaven - Protestants believed Church rituals were not important; believed in salvation through faith alone!! no "good works"
Essay question: explain two reasons why the Catholic Church faced criticism of its authority and practices in the 16th century
- showed human ideals - shift to realism - realistic human body (less stiff) - 3-D perspective - linear representation of distance and space on a flat surface - looked to the classical past for inspiration (Greece and Rome - e.g. gods/goddesses) - sense of proportion, even in nonhuman things - ideals of balance and harmony
Essay question: how did art reflect new Renaissance ideals?
Louis XIV addressed religious turmoil by revoking the Edict of Nantes, which granted Protestant toleration. He completely banned Protestantism - manly Huguenots (French Calvinists) in the country of france.
Essay question: how did the absolutist government of Louis XIV attempt to address a 17th-century European crisis?
- caravel: a ship that's smaller, quicker, and can hold more goods. replaces the Galley ship. Gives the Portuguese a distinct advantage when they first invent it in the 15th century - Ptolemy's geography: a second-century CE work that reintroduced the concepts of longitude and latitude, allowing cartographers to create more accurate maps
Essay question: how were Europeans able to complete their voyages succceessfully in the 15th and 16th centuries?
- spices! tons of uses from food to medicine - religious fervor - profits - glory - chart new waters
Essay question: what motivated Europeans to undertake ambitious voyages of discovery?
- salon: regular social gathering held by talented and rich Parisians in their homes, where philosophes and their followers met to discuss literature, science, and philosophy - Naples entered a period of intellectual expansion after achieving independance from Habsburg rule
Essay question: what new practices and institutions enabled new Enlightenment ideas about society and human relationships to take hold?
- domesticated animals - new diseases (e.g. smallpox) that killed off a ton of the native population - conversion to Christianity through missionaries
Essay question: what was one way in which European conquest impacted the people of the New World?
- reading revolution: the transition in Europe from a society where literacy consisted of patriarchal and communal reading of religious texts to a society where literacy was a commonplace thing and reading material was broad and diverse - Descartes believed that everything in one's life could be reduced to mind or matter - spiritual and physical.
Essay question: what were two new ideas about society and human relationships that emerged in the Enlightenment?
- switch from medieval scholasticism to Renaissance humanism: focus became more human than theologically based - switch from focused to broad liberal arts/humanist education with classes in reading, writing, science, speaking, philosophy, math, basically everything - spread of ideas - reading, writing, etc. for one's self wasn't just something for the privileged. everyone could read and write and express themselves
Essay question: what were two new ideas associated with the Renaissance
- nobles reached for power as absolutist rulers gained control - religious wars
Essay question: what were two of the common crises of 17th-century European states?
National Liberation Front
Established by the Algerian rebels and revolted against French colonialism in the early 1950s.
Armenians
Ethnic group in the Ottoman Empire who were largely Christian. When they supported Russians invading that territory, the Ottomans killed and deported them in large numbers, resulting in an ethnic cleansing
Russia
Europe's largest country, which lagged behind Western European countries in industrial output. It was an exporter of raw materials, but slow to build factories on a large scale until the early 1900s
Shore method of trading
European ships dealt directly with African slave traders offshore, rather than maintaining expensive fortified trading posts on the African continent
opium addiction and military aggression
Europeans used ___ and ____ to blow a hole in the wall of Chinese seclusion and open the country to foreign trade and foreign ideas.
railroads
Europein investors funded a lot of _____ in the neo-Europes, stimulating trade and opening new economic opportunites
Blood sports
Events that involved inflicting violence, usually on animals, that were popular during the 18th century with the European masses
inductive: you need to collect data before you make hypotheses deductive: make a hypothesis then collect your data
Explain inductive vs. deductive reasoning
Leviathan (Hobbes): people need an absolute sovereign because they're too dumb to do things by themselves Two Treatises (Locke): all men have natural rights of life, liberty and property
Explain the difference between Two Treatises of Government and Leviathan
- indulgences were outlawed at the Council of Trent - arresting of heretics throught Roman Inquisition - list of prohibited books - ban protestant ones, especially
Explain two ways the Catholic Church responded to the spread of Protestant ideas in the Catholic Reformation.
jingoism
Extreme patriotism, especially in the form of an aggresive foreign policy
Jingoism
Extreme, chauvinistic patriotism, often favoring an aggressive, warlike foreign policy
Beer Hall Putsch
Failed Nazi coup d'etat in 1923 inspired by Mussolini's successful March on Rome. Sent Hitler and other Nazis to jail
the core of the family was nuclear
Family relations in Western Europe in the 16th century were similar to modern ones in that:
General Francisco Franco
Fascist leader who won the Spanish Civil War in 1939, in part because of the support of Germany and Italy while his republican opponents had almost no international support
Yalta Conference
Feb. 1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, at which the Allies planned the postwar world
Septembre 1, 1939
Fighting in Europe in WWII began with the invasion of Poland on what date?
Battle of Yorktown
Final conflict of the American Revolutionary War at which General Cornwallis surrendered to Washington
Ludwig van Beethoven
First and greatest romantic composer who used contrasting themes and tones to produce dramatic conflict & inspiring resolutions in his music
Victor Emmanuel II
First king of a united Italy
to expose the bankruptcy of modern society and produce radical social change
For artists such as the Dadaists and Surrealists, what was the purpose of art?
the possibility of buying land
For those who returned to their home country, _________ was of central importance?
Walter Gropius
Formed the Bauhaus after exploring with clean, light buildings of glass and iron. Stressed functionality and quality
Olaudah Equiano
Former slave who won fame by publishing his autobiography in England
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
Founder of the Christian Brothers schools first in France, and then spread across Europe and the world
Theodor Herzl
Founder of the Zionist movement
Triple Entente
France, Russia, and Great Britain, all of whom will form the core of the Allied Powers in WW I
Germaine de Stael
French champion of Romanticism, who encouraged the adoption of the spontaneity and enthusiasm of Germans in her study "On Germany". An early advocate of feminism and critic of Napoleon
Dunkirk
French city that served as the site of British troops stranded in France, and their miraculous rescue by sea
Jean-Paul Satre
French existentialist who argued there are no God-given, timeless truths. "Existence precedes essence": humans are born and then try to define what they are on their own
Napoleon Bonaparte
French general who became emperor of the French after leading a coup d'etat against the Directory
Louis XIII
French king who helped his trusty dude Richelieu decrease Protestantism
Madame du Coudray
French midwife who wrote the textbook "Manual on the Art of Childbirth" to address complaints of incompetent midwives
Henri-Philippe Petain
French military commander who had to deal with mutinies within his ranks in 1917. Promised no more grand offensives to placate troops
Marquis de Lafayette
French nobleman who volunteered to serve in General Washington's army and became a close confidant of the general
Henri Bergson
French philosopher who believed that immediate experience & intuition were as important as rational & scientific thinking for understanding reality
Georges Clemenceau
French president during WWI. He wanted to punish Germany harshly to prevent any future aggression from their longtime rival.
Adolphe Thiers
French president of the 3rd republic, beginning in 1870. He crushed the Paris Commune tried to bring stability to the new government in the aftermath
Napoleonic Code
French set of laws promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property, as well as the restriction of rights accorded to women by previous revolutionary laws
Ego
Freud's term for a balancing force between the id and the demands of society
Id
Freud's term for our inborn basic drives
Genoa
From which state was Columbus?
feared that France and Germany would seal off their empires with high tariffs, causing it to lose future economic opportunitiea
GB chose to seize land in Africa and Asia in the late nineteenth century because it
the Catholic Church
Gabriel Marcel found the answer to the postwar broken world in
lawyer
Gandhi had studied overseas to become a
to try and drive the unwelcome foreigners away
Generally, the initial response of African and Asian rulers to aggressive Western expansion was
Rocket
George Stephenson's early locomotive was named what?
Joseph Goebbels
German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Karl Dönitz
German admiral who played a major role in the naval history of World War II. He briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as the head of state of Germany. He began his career in the Imperial German Navy before World War I
Luftwaffe
German air force
September 1, 1939
German armies invaded Poland to start World War II
Spring Offensive of 1918
German attack on the Western Front. Initially it was successful due to numerical superiority following Russian withdrawal from the War. Halted at the 2nd Battle of the Marne
Bauhaus
German interdisciplinary school of fine & applied arts that brought together many leading modern architects, designers, and theatrical innovators
Heinrich von Treitschke
German nationalist historian who asserted that "every virile people has established colonial power", showing nationalist and Social Darwinian tendency
Karl Marx
German philosopher who co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" and spread his vision of "scientific socialism" throughout Europe
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher who questioned the conventional values of Western society, believing that reason, progress, & respectability stifled self-realization and excellence
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist who formulated the "uncertainty principle" saying that the nature of the universe is ultimately unknowable and unpredictable, lacking any absolute objective reality
Gustav Stresemann
German president who compromised with France in 1923 to end the Ruhr crisis
Enigma
German secret code during the war; broken by British cryptographers using a system called Ultra
Schlieffen Plan
German strategy heading into the war - attack France 1st and Russia 2nd instead of both at the same time. Violated Belgian neutrality
Martin Luther
German theologian who led the Reformation by first posting his 95 Theses on the church in Wittenberg in 1517
Franziska Tiburtius
German woman physician
Albert Einstein
German-Jewish scientist & author of the theory of special relativity; only the speed of light is constant - time and space are relative to the observer. Matter & energy are interchangeable
Triple Alliance
Germany, Austria-Hungary, & Italy. The first two will make up the core of the Central Powers in WW I
Red Shirts
Giuseppe Garibaldi's band of 1,000 patriotic guerrilla freedom fighters in Italy
Works Progress Administration
Gov't agency that constructed infrastructure in order to put people to work.
Guest worker programs
Government-run programs in western Europe designed to recruit labor for the booming postwar economy.
Quadruple Alliance
Great Britain, Russia, Austria, & Prussia
Philosophes
Group of French intellectuals who said they were bringing the light of knowledge to the world.
Holy Alliance
Group of conservative rulers that became a symbol for the repression of liberal and revolutionary movements in 19th-century Europe
Luddites
Group of handicraft workers who attacked factories in northern England, smashing machines they believed were putting them out of work
Alexander Ypsilanti
Hero of Greek independence in the 1820s. He was a general in the Russian army who helped organize revolts against the Ottomans, but died before Greece won its independence
SA
Hitler's "storm troopers" or "brown shirts"; a paramilitary group used violence to intimidate political opponents
Mein Kampf
Hitler's autobiographical book outlining his ideology as well as his future plans
SS
Hitler's personal elite bodyguard; would grow after the Night of Long Knives and would eventually take over responsibility for carrying out concentration camp system
He claimed to be able to heal their hemophiliac son
How did Grigori Rasputin endear himself to the Russian royal family?
he formed a tacit agreement with the troops that there would be no more grand offensives
How did Henri-Phillipe Petain maintain order among French troops by late 1917??
he encouraged the development of commercial agriculture
How did Muhammad Ali pay for his ambitious plans?
He sought to impose a new prayer book modeled on the Anglican Book of Common Prayer on Presbyterian Scotland.
How did William Laud, the archbishop of Canterbury, create conflict in Britain in the 1630's?
Austro-Hungary was a multi-ethnic empire. German-speaking people were the minority among Hungarians, Magyars, Czechs, etc. Sense of "national unity" took hold in these groupings rather than in Austro-Hungary as a whole
How did nationalism weaken the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when it strengthened so many other countries during the same time period in the late 19th century?
improved transportation + communciation, standard measurements, mandatory enlisting in the army, public schools, capital city, flag, national anthem, "Uncle Sam"-like figure, holidays, statues
How did nations encourage a feeling of national belonging amongst their citizens?
They worked to improve the lives of Indian women, moving them closer to Western standards through education and legislation
How did some British women seek to affect British colonialism in India in the nineteenth century?
It frustrated the hopes of all the different social classes
How did the National Assembly respond to the hopes and expectations of Saint-Domingue's different social groups?
they extablished research institutes and academies that measured and defined racial differences in order to present prejudice in the guise of enlightened science
How did the Nazis seek to legitimize their racial policies?
required all foreign merchants to live in the southern port of Guangzhou and to buy and sell only to licensed Chinese merchants
How did the Qing/Manchu Dynasty control trade with Europe in the 1800s?
it encouraged European nations to let go of their former colonies
How did the United states respond to the decolonization movement in the first years after the Second World War?
Railroad lines connected resource-rich inland cities to seaports to facilitate Western trade but did not link inland cities to each other
How did the building of railroads in Latin America, Asia, and Africa facilitate Western economic interests as opposed to regional economic interests?
Military schools increasingly educated a new noble class of army officers obedient to the king
How did the nature of armed forces change in the latter half of the 17th century?
it is a deeply Christian poem but also harshly criticizes some church officials
How does the Divine Comedy demostrate the tensions of the 14th century?
3
How many of Henry VIII's children later became English monarchs?
Common Sense
Hugely popular pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, which championed independence for the colonies
the Edict of Nantes
Huguenots were granted religious toleration by Henry IV in
championed the "Aryan race" for its supposedly superior qualities
In "On the Inequality of the Human Races (1854), Count Artur de Gobineau divided humanity into the white, black, and yellow races and
the true strength of the French nation
In 1789, Abbe Sieyes considered the Third estate:
the nobility
In 17th-century Poland, the most significant political influence was exercised by:
Patriots
In 18th century English colonies: those who fought for independence from England
France
In 1954, Vietnam obtained independence from
France
In 1954, Vietnam obtained independence from ____, which brought the U.S. into the fold shortly thereafter as Vietnamese Communist insurgents threatened to take over the country
the consolidation of serfdom
In Eastern Europe between 1500 and 1600, the growth of commercial agriculture was accompanied by:
colonial issues to divert popular attention from the class struggle at home and create a false sense of national unity
In Germany and Russia, conservative political leaders manipulated
He was struck by how competitive people were in London
In Primary Source 22.1: First Impressions of the World's Biggest City, how did the anonymous man from the country view life in London?
By allowing in only immigrants who can pass a literacy test
In Primary Source 24.2, how does Henry Cabot Lodge suggest the United States restrict certain immigrant groups that he deems undesirable?
War and its ideals will be idolized by Futurists
In Primary Source 26.2 "The Futurist Manifesto," what does Filippo Tommaso Marinetti have tos ay about war?
enter the ranks of specialists in industry and science
In Stalin's Soviet Union, women could
Uninspiring economic conditions
In addition to the emergence of married career women, why else have European birthrates declined?
passive resistance
In attempting to obtain Indian independence, Gandhi and his followers practiced ____ to achieve their aims
the Western world had overemphasized rationality and stifled the authentic passions that drive human activity and true creativity
In his philosophical writings, Friedrich Nietsche argued that
emigration increased about twenty years after a rapid growth in population, as land became scarce
In most European countries, how was emigration related to population growth in the late nineteenth century?
Revolution of 1905
In response to Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War and the massacre of Bloody Sunday, the pent up discontent of the Russian people resulted in this uprising
the creation of a Jewish national state in Palestine where European Jews could settle and live free of social prejudice
In response to radical anti-Semitism, Jewish political movement called Zionism emerged among European Jewish communities, advocating for
natural philosophy
In the 1500s ____ ____ was based on Aristotle's ideas. Fundamental questions of the universe
natural philosophy
In the 1500s ______ ______ was based on Aristotle's ideas. Fundamental questions of the universe.
the Persian Safavids
In the 15th Century, two rival Islamic empires dominated the Middle East; the Ottoman Turks and :
Interest payments on debt
In the 1780s, over 50 percent of France's annual budget was expended on
interest payments on the debt
In the 1780s, over 50 percent of France's annual budget was expended on
-France -Spain -Central Europe -Russia
In the 17th century, which governments were absolutist?
-England -Netherlands
In the 17th century, which governments were constitutionalist?
vegetables
In the 18th century, the diet of the poorer classes consisted largely of bread and:
economic growth
In the 1950s and 1960s, what became the basic objective of all Western European governments?
the British colonial empire
In the Eighteenth century, the biggest increase in British foreign trade was with
Germany
In the Treaty of Versailles' war guilt clause, Allies declared that _____ was entirely responsible for the war.
modern mass media such as cinema and radio
In the early 20th century, the traditional arts and amusements of people in villages and small towns was overshadowed by
He deemphasized the anti-capitalist elements of National Socialism and vowed to fight communism
In the late 1920's, how did Adolf Hitler shape the Nazi Party's message to appeal to middle-class voaters?
an advocate of improved public sanitation
In the nineteenth century, Edwin Chadwick gained fame as
took over much of the East Indies from Portugal
In the seventeenth century, the Dutch East India company:
internal monologues to explore the psyche
In twentieth century literature, the stream-of-consciousness technique uses
France
In what country was the First Battle of the Marne fought?
Sarajevo
In which city was Archduke Franz Ferdinand shot in June 1914?
Paris
In which city were talks held to formulate a peace settlement following WWI?
Czechoslovakia
In which country did the Velvet Revolution occur?
Mohandas Gandhi
Indian nationalist who started a mass movement preaching nonviolent "noncooperation" with the British.
Johannes Kepler
Individual who first provided mathematical formulas supporting Copernican theory and planetary motion.
Robert Owen
Influential Scottish factory owner and utopian socialist. He tried to show that factories could be profitable even when treating and paying workers well.
Great Rebellion (1857)
Insurrection by Muslim and Hindu mercenaries in the British army that spread throughout northern and central India before finally being crushed
John Kay
Invented the flying shuttle (loom)
John Kay
Inventor of the flying shuttle, which allowed weavers to work more quickly on their looms
Edmund Cartwright
Inventor of the power loom to weave thread. His machine would replace handlooms until the 1820s
Guglielmo Marconi
Inventor of the radio
James Hargreaves
Inventor of the spinning jenny, which worked up to 24 spindles at a time to spin more thread
Richard Arkwright
Inventor of the water frame, a machine that made spinning more efficient by working using waterpower to work several hundred spindles at once
Tewfiq
Ismail's weak son who took over his father's throne
Edict of Nantes
Issued by Henry IV; allowed for some Protestant worship in France
Karlsbad Decrees
Issued in 1819, they required German states to outlaw liberal political organizations and clamp down on liberal or radical reformers
Declaration of Independence
Issued in July 1776, this compiled list of grievances against the English government also said that all men are created equal with rights to life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness
Black Shirts
Italian Fascist members of Mussolini's combat squads who attacked anyone who disagreed with their party.
vibrant
Italian Renaissance art had ___ colors due to oil-based paints
classical forms
Italian Renaissance art was a revivial of
Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy. Led a failed revolution in 1848 that briefly established a republic in Rome.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Italian patriot and leader of the Red Shirts whose conquest of Sicily and Naples led to the formation of the Italian state
Benito Mussolini
Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Florence Medici
Italian renaissance art was centered in ____(city) under the ____ Family
St. Laurence Seaway
Jacques Cartier became the first European to explore what body of water?
an ordinary man's aimless wanderings through the streets and pubs of Dublin
James Joyce's Ulysses weaves ironic parallels between the adventures of Homer's hero Ulysses and
December 7, 1941
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which brought the US into World War II, happened on this date
Nagasaki
Japanese city in which the second atomic bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945
"Emile, or On Education"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's famous work outlining his view of proper education
Battle of Orleans
Joan of Arc helped turn the tide of the Hundred Years' War at which battle when the French were under siege?
a blank slate
John Locke believed that the human mind at birth was ________ & shaped by experience
tabula rasa
John Locke's philosophy that man was born with a blank slate, and are molded by environment
a blank slate
John locke believed that the human mind at birth was ____, and was shaped by experiance.
Louis Blanc
Journalist who urged workers to agitate for universal voting rights and take control of the state peacefully. He also pushed for the gov't to set up workshops to guarantee full employment
"Secret Speech"
Khrushchev denounced Stalin for abuses of power in front of Communist delegates at the 20th Party Congress in 1956
Leonid Brezhnev
Khrushchev's successor. Under him the USSR began a period of limited re-Stalinization and economic stagnation. He talked about Stalin's "good points" and downplayed his crimes. Launched a massive arms buildup to catch up to, and ultimately surpass, the American arsenal.
Victor Emmanuel III
King of Italy who gave Mussolini legitimacy as dictator
Jean Jacques Dessalines
L'Ouverture's lieutenant and leader of the Haitian revolt after his mentor's death. He defeated French forces and declared Haitian independence.
Battle of the Bulge
Last-ditch effort by Nazis to repel Allied advance into Germany
Hundred Days of Reform
Launched in 1898 by the Chinese government in an attempt to meet foreign challenge
Enabling Act
Law pushed through the Reichstag that gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for 4 years
Mustafa Kemal
Leader of Turkish nationalists who overthrew the last Ottoman sultan and held off Western forces trying to dismember their country after WW I
V. I. Lenin
Leader of the Bolsheviks. His slogan of "Peace, Land, & Bread" galvanized many Russians against the Provisional Gov't. First premier of the USSR
George Washington
Leader of the Continental army on behalf of the American Continental Congress
Heinrich Himmler
Leader of the SS and given task of organizing and executing the Holocaust
Josef Stalin
Leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin. Believed in building up socialism in one country
Joseph Stalin
Leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin. Believed in building up socialism in one country
New Economic Policy (NEP)
Lenin's 1921 law to re-establish limited economic freedom in an attempt to rebuild agriculture and industry in the face of econ. disintegration; replaced war communism
latitude
Lines of _______ are horizontal on the map and tell one's distance north or south of the equator.
portraits of patrons - more individualistic and realistic view of a man perspective shading (chiaroscuro)
List some new Italian Renaissance art techniques
Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos, Mulattoes
List the social classes of the Spanish colonies from most to least powerful.
the sun king
Louis XIV was known as:
Otto von Bismarck
Machiavellian Prussian chancellor who engineered the unification of Germany under his rule using war to bring the German states together.
Moses Mendelssohn
Major philosopher of the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment
Russification
Making ethnic groups into more loyal Russians by enforcing policies of one language and one religion under Czar Alexander III
Cottage Industry
Manufacturing with hand tools in peasant homes and work sheds
Congress of Vienna
Meeting held at the end of the Napoleonic Wars to create a general peace for Europe by redrawing the map and reestablishing monarchs unseated by the French armies
Diet of Worms
Meeting of the leadership of the Holy Roman Empire, under the leadership of Charles V, during which Luther refused to recant his beliefs
Young Turks
Members of a Turkish reformist and nationalist political party active in the early 20th century.
Serbians
Members of the "Black Hand" who went to Sarajevo, Bosnia to assassinate Franz Ferdinand were of this nationality
Warsaw Pact
Military alliance among the USSR and its Communist satellite states
Impressionism
Monet, Renoir, and Pissarro pioneered which style of painting?
severe problems in Italian villages and relatively slow industrial growth
More and more Italians left the country right up to 1914, reflecting
Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt
Most famous impressionist painters
Battle of Sadowa
Most important conflict in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 that saw Prussia win decisively
a westernizing autocrat
Muhammad Ali's grandson, Ismail, was what type of ruler?
Caravel
Name the Arab ship with lateen sails; faster and more cargo than galley. improved by Europeans
Russia, Prussia, Austria, Great Britain
Name the Quadruple Alliance.
France, Great Britain, Russia
Name the three members of the Triple Entente
Destroy Britain's economy
Napoleon's aim in establishing the Continental System as to:
Directory
Napoleon's coup d'etat overthrew which government?
Peninsulares
New World residents who spent most of their lives in Europe. They held the most powerful positions of governance in the Americas
Africa and Asia, putting millions of black, brown, and yellow peoples directly under the rule of whites
New imperialism was aimed primarily at
plant the flag over as many people and as much territory as possible
New imperialism was characterized by a frantic rush to
Spain
New knowledge came from scientific explorations sponsored by European governments; ____ took an early lead.
Spain
New knowledge came from scientific explorations sponsored by European governments; ________ took an early lead
Sedan Day
New national holidays in the late 19th century helped instill a sense of patriotism in populations. Bastille Day was an example from France. Which was the example from Germany, celebrating their victory in 1871?
October Manifesto
Nicholas II's attempt to end the Revolution of 1905 by promising reform, full civil rights, and the creation of a new national legislature
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Novel by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn published in 1962. It portrays in grim detail life in a Stalinist concentration camp and is a damning indictment of the Stalinist past.
Doctor Zhivago
Novel written by Russian author Boris Pasternak. It is a literary masterpiece and a powerful challenge to communism. It tells the story of a poet who rejects the violence and brutality of the October Revolution of 1917 and the Stalinist years. This book appeared in the West in 1957, but not in the Soviet Union until 1988.
6
Number of days a week that factory employees were expected to work
14
Number of hours in a typical workday for a factory worker in the early 1800s
March on Rome
October 1922 demonstration that put pressure on the Italian gov't and propelled Mussolini to power
a military dictatorship
Oliver Cromwell's protectorate was ultimately:
Jewish and Muslim converts
On the Iberian Peninsula, who were the people referred to as the "New Christians"?
November 11, 1918
On what date was the armistice to end fighting in WWI agreed to?
Easter
On what holiday did Irish nationalists rise up in 1916, in an attempt to end British rule?
Ptolemy's Geography
On which text did Columbus base his theory that he could sail west to India?
Richard Huelsenbeck
One of the founders of Dadaism, who wrote that "the highest art will be visibly shattered by the explosion of last week"
service to the state
One of the main aims of Peter the Great was to make high social status more dependant on _______
electricity
One of the most important scientific and technological developments in the 19th century saw a form of commercial energy useful in communications and manufacturing developed from
centralized institutions, such as conscription in the military and public education
One way in which countries tried to build up national unity was through
Battle of Tannenberg
Opening conflict on the Eastern Front that cost many Russian lives, but diverted some German attention from their massive offensive in the west
Edict on Idle Institutions
Order from Joseph II abolishing contemplative religious orders, & allowing only orders that engaged in teaching, nursing, or other work
Muhammad Ali
Ottoman viceroy who seized power in Egypt and established a separate Egyptian state. Modernized the state and attempted to take down the sultan in the 1830s
Edward Said
Palestinian professor of culture studies, wrote "Orientalism" (1978)
Peace of Utrecht
Peace settlement that ended the War of Spanish Succession in 1713, forcing Louis XIV to cede some N. American landholdings to Britain and the Spanish to cede the slave trade to GB as well
Joan of Arc
Peasant girl who led French army to victory over the English in the 100 Years' War
Great Fear
Peasant uprisings based on panic and concern of noble reprisals that seized the French countryside in 1789 and led to further revolt
Creole
People of Spanish ancestry born in the Americas
Mulattoes
People of mixed African and European ancestry
Mulattoes
People of mixed European and African heritages
Mestizos
People of mixed European and Native American heritages
Mestizos
People of mixed Native American and European ancestry
Volksgemeinschaft
People's community; the Nazi racial community, united by blood and culture
97
Percentage of Frenchmen who voted to make Louis Napoleon the French emperor in 1853
40
Percentage of adults in Britain in the 1930s who went to the cinema at least once a week
75
Percentage of homes in UK & Germany in the late 1930s with a radio
30
Percentage of people in 1933 in the USA who were out of work
15
Percentage of people in Western Europe who did not marry at all in the 18th century
20
Percentage of the US labor force that worked for the Works Progress Admin. at some point in the 1930s.
20
Percentage of the world's industrial goods that were produced in Britain in 1860
Victor Hugo
Perhaps the most influential romantic writer of France, author of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Les Miserables"
westernization
Peter the Great wanted Russians to be more like other Europeans, and had a policy of
Humanism
Philosophy that celebrates human cultural achievements and emphasizes human reason and ethics.
Black Death
Plague that first struck Europe in 1347 and killed perhaps one-third of the population
Mandate system
Plan following the end of WW I to allow Britain & France to administer former Ottoman territories, rather than granting those territories independence
of its independent agriculture and vigorous church
Poland differed from the other Eastern Bloc states in the 1970s and 1980s because
Nonalignment
Policy of postcolonial governments to remain neutral in the Cold War and play both the United States and the Soviet Union for what they could get.
Marie Curie
Polish physicist who discovered radium constantly emits subatomic particles and thus does not have an atomic weight
Liberalism
Political ideology based on liberty and equality. Proponents demanded representative gov't, individual freedoms, and equality before the law
Almanacs
Popular genre of literature in which calendars listed secular, religious, astrological, and agricultural events, as well as jokes & trivia
National Convention
Popularly elected body that replaced the Legislative Assembly. It would usher in a republic and was marked by a fierce rivalry between the moderate Girondins & radical members of the Mountain
Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)
Portion of Germany aligned with the US
German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
Portion of Germany aligned with the USSR
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain who led the first expedition around the world.
Bartholomew Dias
Portuguese navigator that discovered the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa
Displaced persons
Postwar refugees, including 13 million Germans, former Nazi prisoners and forced laborers, and orphaned children
strictly forbidden
Practices considered harmful to Chinese trading interests were initially
Edmund Burke
Predicted in "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790) that reform like that occurring in France would lead only to chaos and tyranny
New Deal
Pres. F.D. Roosevelt's plan to reform capitalism in order to preserve it in the face of high unemployment and bank failures of the Great Depression
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the UK from 1940-1945
- Portuguese prince - supported the study of geogrphy and navigation - sponsored expeditions along western coast of Africa - beginning of overseas expansion in E
Prince Henry the Navigator
Portugal
Prince Henry the Navigator was an important figure in funding voyages from which country?
Functionalism
Principle that buildings should serve as well as possible the purpose for which they were made, without excessive ornamentation
through bad odors of decay and filth
Prior to Pasteur's discovery, how did many people believe diseases were spread?
Faith alone
Protestants believe salvation is achieved though ______
Defenestration of Prague
Protestants threw Catholics out a window; started the Thirty Years' War
Puritans
Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England; strongly anti-Catholic
Alsace-Lorraine
Provinces along the French-German border that were ceded to the Germans after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71
Schleswig-Holstein
Provinces of Denmark that were majority German and were "liberated" by Austria and Prussia in 1864
Sigmund Freud
Psychologist who said human behavior was basically irrational, governed by the unconscious
Nicolaus Copernicus
Published heliocentric Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres the year of his death to avoid backlash
Prince Henry the Navigator
Pushed Portuguese efforts to explore a sea route around Africa in order to reach Asia
Belgium
Put up a fight against Germany in 1914, delaying the Schlieffen Plan and contributing to its ultimate failure
Council of Trent
Reaffirmed traditional Catholic teachings, forbade the sale of indulgences. Called by Pope Paul III
attempted to observe and record life in an objective manner
Realist writers fit within the late-nineteenth-century glorification of science because they
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
Reform-minded economics minister of France who pushed through a law abolishing all French guilds
Sudetenland
Region of Czechoslovakia containing many ethnic Germans. Hitler demanded it and it was handed over to him at the Munich Conference
John Calvin
Religious reformer who believed in predestination and a strict sense of morality for society
Charles de Gaulle
Resigned from provisional gov't in France in 1946. He was reelected French president in 1958. He was reinstated as Prime Minister of France in 1962 and calmed the situation in Algeria.
Eduard Berstein
Revisionist socialist who wrote "Evolutionary Socialism" to encourage a change in socialist tactics to be more gradualist and less violent
Josiah Wedgwood
Revolutionized the process of making pottery, and became a leader in the luxury pottery industry
Cold War
Rivalry between the US & USSR that divided much of Europe into a Soviet-aligned Communist bloc and a US-aligned capitalist bloc from 1945-1989
Montezuma II
Ruled the Mexica Empire at Tenochtitlan. Cortes allied with small local leaders to defeat this large ruler
Czar Alexander II
Ruler of Russia who freed the serfs in 1861 following a disastrous showing at the Crimean War. He would be assassinated by radicals in 1881.
Czar Alexander III
Ruler who imposed strict censorship codes and oppressed minority groups to establish a uniform Russian culture. Tried to avoid the fate of his father.
The Rite of Spring
Russian composer Igor Stavinsky created a controversial ballet called ______ that broke traditional normes of the art form to the extent that it nearly caused a riot in Paris the first time it was performed.
surrealism
Salvador Dali's portrayal of images of the unconscious and wild dreams is an example of the artistic style of
Robert Owen
Scottish manufacturer and early socialist. He testified before Parliament to argue for better working conditions and age limits. He would also create some Utopian factories for his workers
Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916
Secret deal between Britain and France that agreed that Ottoman territories would be administered by European powers in what will later be called the mandate system.
Cheka
Secret police force of the Bolshevik regime when V.I. Lenin took power
Home Rule
Self-government
Adelheid Popp
Self-taught working woman who became an influential socialist leader and editor of German socialist newspaper.
King Leopold II of Belgium
Sent explorers to the Congo, which set off a scramble for African territory among the Europeans
Factory Acts
Series of laws in GB from 1802-1833 that progressively limited child labor and set minimum hygiene and safety requirements
there were religious disputes among the colonists
Settlers from the Massachusetts colony formed new communities such as Connecticut and Rhode Island because:
Common Market
Six countries who sought to reduce tariffs in order to create a single economic bloc to compete on the world stage
The Mountain
So named because they sat at the top of tall risers in the National Convention's meeting hall, this was a group of Jacobins led by Robespierre who represented the radical faction in the Nat'l Conv.
Giacomo Matteotti
Socialist that was murdered in Italy after challenging the Fascists; his death spurred Mussolini's repressive fascist measures
Modern girl
Somewhat stereotypical image of the modern and independent working woman popular in the 1920s
Caudillos
South American "strong men" or warlords who in several instances, ruled South American regions based on military strength, family patronage, and populist policies
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet premier who took power in 1953 wanted to "De-Stalinize" Soviet Union.
Francisco Pizarro
Spanish explorer who took over Inca Empire (Peru)
Baltic Sea
St. Petersburg is located on what body of water which also touches Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?
industrial
Stalin's five-year plans sought to remake Soviet agriculture, with the end goal to transform the ______ sector of the Soviet Union and increase output by 250%
Vincent Oge
Started the earliest armed insurrection against the French government on Saint-Domingue in 1790 after returning from Paris.
Ethiopia
State that had survived the 2nd wave of imperialism in the 1880s, but was invaded in 1935 by Italian forces to build an Italian empire
Lusitania
Sunk in 1915 by a German submarine. 129 American killed. Forced Germany to stop unrestricted submarine warfare until 1917.
"The Blitz"
Sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1941, including a span of 57-consecutive nights of bombings in London by the Luftwaffe
Ulrich Zwingli
Swiss humanist who announced he would read the New Testament from A to Z. Convinced that Christian life rested on the scriptures. Resented indulgences, Mass, monasticism, and clerical celibacy.
Holocaust
Systematic effort of the Nazi state to exterminate all European Jews and other groups deemed "undesirable"
true
T/F Cold war conflicts notwithstanding, the postwar decades witnessed construction of a relatively stable social and political consensus in the East and West
true
T/F Hitler betrayed his 1939 nonaggression pact with Stalin
true
T/F Hitler put his violent revolutionary thoughts on hold following his failed coup d'etat attempt in 1923
true
T/F Some Soviet displaced persons feared returning home after the end of WWII because the regime could label them as politically unreliable for having spent time in the West.
false
T/F Stalin supported Lenin's New Economic Policy, introduced after the Russian Civil War
true
T/F among postwar tensions, Western Europe fashioned a remarkable recovery
true
T/f Nationalism in the 19th century could, at various times, appeal to those on the left as well as the right of the political spectrum.
true
T/f the export of raw materials supplied by "primary producers" to Western manufacturers boosted economic growth in core countries but did little to establish independent industry in the nonindustrialized periphery.
true
T/f: Gustavus Adolphus' success during the Thirty Years' War prompted many European militaries to alter their strategies on the battlefield to emulate his forces/
true
T/f: The spinning of thread for the loom required the work of several spinners for each loom, which often led to the empolyment of women at low wages.
true
T/f: the English Glorious Revolution of 1688 did not constitute a democratic revolution since sovereignty was placed in the Parliament, which only represented the upper classes.
true
T/f: the three sons of Henry II were all dominated by their mother, Catherine de'Medici
Leni Riefenstahl
Talented German filmmaker. Her propaganda films, Triumph of the Will & Olympia, brought her worldwide attention and acclaim
Economic miracle
Term used to describe the rapid growth, often based in the consumer sector, in post-WW II Western Europe
Alsace and Lorraine
Territories along the French-German border won by Germany after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Territories annexed by Austria in 1908, causing Serbia to get angry and challenge A-H to the brink of war.
Thomas Malthus
The "Essay on the Principle of Population" was written in 1798 by which author?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
The "Red Shirts" are associated with this revolutionary leader.
Treaty of Tordesillas
The 1494 agreement giving Spain everything to the west of an imaginary line drawn down the Atlantic and giving Portugal everything to the east.
create an enlarged trading area
The 1834 Zollverein (Prussian customs union) was designed to do what?
the enclosure moevement and emergence of the industrious revolution
The 18th century consumer revolution is most closely associated with what contemporaneous trends?
The Catholic Reformation
The Baroque style flourished in the context of:
"effective occupation" - a strong presence on the ground
The Berlin Conference established the principle that European claims to African territory had to rest on
Edward VI
The Book of Common Prayer, an Anglican text, was first introduced during the reign of:
Boer War (1899-1902) (aka South African War)
The British eventually conquered the Dutch in ____
this treatise sought to train, discipline, and fashion the young man into the courtly ideal, the gentleman.
The Courtier
law and order
The Napoleonic Code favored ____ over individual rights
law and order
The Napoleonic Code favored ________ over individual rights.
abolishing noble privileges
The National Assembly responded to the violence of the Great Fear and peasant demands by:
broadened women's rights to seek divorce and inherit property
The National Assembly that ruled France from 1789 to 1791 passed laws that _________(regarding women's rights)
broadened women's rights to seek divorce and inherit property
The National assembly that ruled France from 1789-1791 passed laws that : (in regard to women's rights)
China
The Opium Wars forced ____ to give in to British demands regarding trade.
Prussia
The Protestant Hohenzollern rulers of northern Germany created the state of _______
Lin Zexu
The Qing government sent _____ to Guangzhou to punish Chinese who purchased opium and seize the opium suppplies of British merchants, who then withdrew to the barren island of Hong Kong
War Communism
The Russian policy of nationalizing industry and seizing private land during the Russian Civil War.
Musim areas to the south in the Caucasus and Central Asia; China's outlying provinces (nibbled)
The Russians gained _______ in Asia through imperialist conquest in the late 1800s.
Gavrilo Princep
The Serbian assassin of the Austrian heir in 1914
Ottoman Empire
The Sykes-Picot Agreement between Great Britain and France agreed that they would split which country's lands?
the Radical Phase
The Thermidorian reaction ended which phase of the Revolution, and returned France to a more moderate era of politics.
Defenestration of Prague
The Thirty Years' War began with this event between the nobles of Bohemia and Ferdinand's official.
The revival of economies and populations of the German states
The Thirty Years' War did NOT result in
Habsburg-Valois Wars
The Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis ended the conflict known as the
The Spainish American War (Spain)
The U.S. got the Philippines from
absorbed the largest overall number of European emigrants
The United States between 1815 and 1932 absorbed how many people?
Anschluss
The annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938.
greater patriotism and morale
The armies of revolutionary France enjoyed which of the following advantages over their enemies?
Industrial Revolution
The burst of major inventions and economic expansion that began in Britain in the late 18th century
Soviet Bloc
The communist nations closely allied with the Soviet Union, including Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania, whose foreign policies depended on those of the Soviet Union.
Suez and Panama Canals
The construction of these canals shortened transport time to areas fo the globe significantly
Alexander II
The czar who lost the Crimean War and was assassinated by the "People's Will" anarchist group.
Rocroi
The final collapse of Spain as a great military power was symbolized by the defeat at the Battle of _______ and the resulting treaty of the Pyrenees.
Battle of Waterloo
The final defeat of Napoleon's forces in 1815. After this conflict, he will be sent away to the South Atlantic for the rest of his life
Great Britain
The first European country to industrialize on a large scale
Vasco da Gama
The first European to reach India by sea sailing around the tip of Africa. His initial journey was very profitable, encouraging others to follow his lead.
National Assembly
The first French revolutionary legislature, made up primarily of representatives of the third estate and a few from the nobility and clergy, in session from 1789 to 1791
Maxim gun
The first automatic machine gun; invention that allowed conquest of the interior of Africa
Articles of Confederation
The first constitution of the United States introduced in 1783. It did not develop a strong enough central government or create enough tax revenue to sustain itself beyond 1789.
Jamestown, VA
The first permanent English settlement founded in 1607.
Kaiser William I
The first ruler of the Second Reich established in January 1871
Lexington & Concord
The first skirmishes of the revolution, taking place in April 1775
1914
The first year of WW I
Atlantic slave trade
The forced migration of millions of Africans to work as slaves on plantations in the New World
Collectivization of agriculture
The forcible consolidation of individual peasant farms into large state-controlled enterprises in the USSR under Stalin
Directory
The government that featured a 5-man executive branch and bicameral legislature. It was overthrown in a coup d'etat by Napoleon.
The Philippines
The great conquest by the U.S. in their imperialism in Asia was _______
Roman Catholic clergy
The group that was most severely criticized in the works of Voltaire was:
Middle Passage
The horrible journey slaves endured across the Atlantic Ocean, to be traded or sold in the New World
Volksgemeinschaft
The idea of breaking down class barriers for an entire community to work together to achieve a national objective. (WWII)
Nationalism
The idea that each people had its own genius and specific identity that manifested itself especially in a common language and history, and often led to the desire for an independent political state.
Just price
The idea that prices should be fair, protecting both consumers and producers and that they should be imposed by the government if necessary
Leonardo da Vinci
The ideal of a "Renaissance Man" who wrote, painted, drew, and did architecture and anatomy work
Conservatism
The ideology of maintaining the status quo, usually associated in the 19th century with aristocracy and authoritarian governments that maintained privilege and order
Nuremberg trials
The international military tribunal accused German leaders of committing war crimes; defined "crime against humanity" and stopped the cycle of violence
Jethro Tull
The inventor of the seed drill, a machine that improved farming by planting seeds in an even manner at a uniform depth.
The Peace of Westphalia
The last of the major religious wars, the Thirty Years' War, ends with:
1918
The last year of WW I
new imperialism
The late-nineteenth-century drive by European countries to create vast political empires abroad.
Peninsulares
The leadership in the New World came from this class of people, who were residents who came from the Iberian Peninsula. They often made up the top levels of clergy and government
De-Stalinization
The liberalization of the post-Stalin USSR led by reformer Nikita Khrushchev
Reichstag
The lower house of the German legislature. It was elected by universal male suffrage, but could be vetoed by the upper house or the kaiser
Diet of Worms
The meeting of leaders in the Holy Roman Empire at which Luther was formally condemned
Nuremburg
The military tribunal organized by the Allied powers to try Nazi leaders was held in this city.
Battle of Sedan
The most important conflict of the Franco-Prussian War, at which Napoleon III was captured
the rise of France as a great power
The most important political and military result of the Peace of Westphalia (1648) was
an oligarchy of weathy businessmen
The most political power in the Dutch Republic was controlled by:
Jewish Enlightenment
The movement of Haskalah refers to the
Jewish Enlightenment
The movement of the Haskalah refers to the
Enclosure
The movement to fence in fields in order to farm more effectively, at the expense of poor peasants who relied on common fields for farming & pasture
viceroyalties
The name for the four administrative units of Spanish possessions in the Americas: New Spain, Peru, New Granada, and La Plata
abolishing noble privileges
The national assembly responded to the violence of the Great Fear and peasant demands by
National self-determination
The notion that peoples should be able to choose their own national governments through democratic majority-rule elections and live free from outside interference in nation-states with clearly defined borders.
Saint-Domingue
The prosperous French colony that occupied the western half of the island of Hispaniola. It will later become Haiti.
Reconquista
The retaking of the Iberian Peninsula by Spanish forces from the Moors. It was completed in 1492.
Sepoy Rebellion
The revolt of Indian soldiers in 1857 against certain practices that violated religious customs as well as rule by the English more generally
Diwani
The right to civil administration and tax collection, won by the British East India Company over Bengal and other parts of India in the late 18th century
"second industrial revolution"
The rise of (RISE OF) other countries to match (and some surpass) the industrial output of Great Britain in the 2nd half of the 19th century
Peace of Westphalia
The series of treaties that ended the Thirty Years' War were called what?
Illegitimacy explosion
The sharp increase in out-of-wedlock births that occurred between 1750-1850 caused by low wages & a breakdown of community controls
renounce war as an instrument of national policy
The signatories of the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, initiated by French Prime Minister Aristide Briande and U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, agreed to
St. Helena
The site of Napoleon's 2nd (final) exile, a small island in the South Atlantic Ocean
Elba
The site of Napoleon's first exile, a small island in the Mediterranean Sea
Crystal Palace
The site of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, an architectural masterpiece made entirely of glass and steel
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
The slogan of the French revolutionaries
The Bourgeoisie
The social group that most often supported the centralizing efforts of the "new monarchs" was:
The Rocket
The steam locomotive created by George Stephenson. It sped from Liverpool to Manchester at a breathtaking 24 mph
patriotism and the superior numbers supplied by the draft
The string of French military victories after the winter of 1793-94 owed largely to
cavaliers
The supporters of King Charles I in the English Civil war were called what?
Hiroshima
The target of the first of two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 was
wealthy, educated commoners
The term "bourgeoisie" refers to
Jenner, Lister, and Pasteur
The understanding of treatment and prevention of infectious disease is largely due to the work of:
Gunboat Diplomacy
The use or threat of military force to coerce a government into economic or political agreements; similar to brinkmanship
the Inca Empire
The vast and sophisticated Peruvian empire, centered at Cuzco and peaked from 1438-1532 was known as:
Muhammad Ali
The viceroy of Egypt who modernized the region and threatened to depose the sultan in the 1830s before the western powers stepped in to prop up the weak Sultans Mahmud II and Abdul Mejid
1815
The year that marks the end of the French Revolution with the defeat of Napoleon's forces at Waterloo and subsequent Congress of Vienna that sought undo all the changes wrought by the Rev.
1789
The year that the French Revolution began with the calling of the Estates General and the storming of the Bastille
1776
The year the British colonies declared their independence
Simone de Beauvoir
This person believed that existence itself is absurd. Human beings are terribly alone, there is no God to help them, and they are left to confront the inevitable arrival of death and aso are hounded by despair.
Josef Stalin
This person desperately wanted the other Allied leaders to open up a second front on the European continent to take pressure off his people struggling to withstand the Nazi invasion.
St. Ignatius of Loyola
This person had fanatical devotion to the Catholic Church and founded an order during the reformation.
Karl Donitz
This person was a Nazi U-Boat commander who used "tu quoque" arguments to frustrate the prosecution in the Nuremburg trials. His strategy allowed him to avoid a death sentence.
War of Spanish Succession
This war ended with the Treaty of Utrecht and was the last of Louis XIV's attempts at empire in Europe.
The Spanish Inquisition
This was created to root out false conversos following the Alhambra Decree of 1492.
the state is based on a social contract
Thomas Hobbes and J-J Rousseau would have agreed that:
overpopulation
Thomas Malthus wrote a famous essay in 1798 that he saw an impending problem of:
"Common Sense"
Thomas Paine's influential pamphlet attacking British rule in North America & monarchy in general, and proposing American independence
24
Top speed of George Stephenson's "Rocket" locomotive
Warsaw Uprising
Tragic miscalculation as a rebellion in Poland ended with rebels being crushed by Nazis as Soviets waited to take over the city
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Treaty between Russia and Germany that would end Russia's involvement in WWI in 1917 Document that announced the withdrawal of Russia from WWI
Greek Civil War
Truman asked Congress to provide military aid to anticommunist forces. With American support, they resisted communism and remained in the Western Bloc.
Woodrow Wilson
U.S. President during WWI. Served 1913-1920. Kept America neutral until 1917. His plan for the post-War world was called the 14 Points, and included measures for collective security and a lasting peace
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
U.S. President who condemned the belligerent attacks on Japan made in Asia. Said December 7, 1941 (Pearl Harbor) would be a "date which would live in infamy." Died on April 12 and is succeeded by Vice President Harry S. Truman.
George Marshall
US Secretary of State who offered an economic package to help Europe rebuild after WWII.
John F. Kennedy
US president who reaffirmed US commitment to never abandon Berlin. When Khrushchev ordered missiles with nuclear warheads to be installed in Castro's Cuba, he responded with a naval blockade of Cuba.
House of Lancaster
Ultimately this English noble family, symbolized by the red rose, was able to claim the crown by replacing Richard III with Henry Tudor.
Guerrilla warfare
Unconventional fighting, using hit-and-run attacks as resistance against a larger force.
Fallow
Uncultivated; a period in which no planting was done in order to reinvigorate the soil
the Fronde
Uprising early in Louis XIV's life called him to distrust nobility. What was the revolt called?
the greatest good for the greatest number
Utilitarianism was Jeremy Bentham's idea that social policies should promote
August 14, 1945
V-J Day; Japan surrenders to end the fighting of World War II
Who was the first Portuguese explorer to sail around Africa to India?
Vasco da Gama
Council of the Indies
Viceroys of Peru and La Plata enforced laws in the New World that were passed by which legislavtive body?
Henri-Philippe Petain
WW I veteran and leader of the Vichy France government
Dawes Plan (1924)
War reparations agreement that reduced Germany's yearly payments, made payment dependent on econ. prosperity, and granted US loans to promote German economic recovery
Halbstarken
West German youth inspired by James Dean and Marlon Brando who had rebellious clothing and cynical attitudes.
since there are no timeless or absolute truths, people must struggle to define their essence after they are born, completely on their own
Whad did Jean-Paul Sartre mean by the expression "existence precedes essence"?
Henry IV
What Protestant king of France converted to Catholicism?
Glasnost
What Soviet reform called for increased openness and freedom of speech?
Bohemian, Danish, Swedish, French
What are the 4 phases of the Thirty Years' War, in chronological order?
- the nonconformists developed a burning desire for human dignity, economic emancipation, and political independence - ironically, copied liberalism/nationalism from Europe
What are the two reasons anti-European leaders arose?
Crecy
What battle provided the English and King Edward III a tremendous victory over mounted French knights in 1347?
Louis XIV wanted the Spanish possessions because of the late Charles II's will, but this will violated a European treaty
What caused the War of Spanish Succession?
it sent more goods and inventions to Europe than it received.
What characterized China's trade with Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution?
Ceuta
What city-state was conquered by the Portuguese in 1415 and is considered the first modern colony?
Haiti
What country is the 2nd oldest independent nation of the Americas?
Haiti
What country is the second oldest independent nation of the Americas?
Ottoman Empire
What country was known as the "sick man of Europe" heading into WWI?
discover the inner meaning of bittersweet memories of childhood and youthful love
What did Marcel Proust attempt to do in his novel "Remembrance of Things Past"?
The Communist Party to retain its monopoly on political power
What did Nikita Khrushchev's campaign call for?
forced Tewfiq to flee, put down Colonel Arabi's rebellion, and formed a puppet government in Egypt unti 1956
What did the British do as a result of bloody anti-European riots in Alexandria?
free, unregulated trade with China, as well as the establishment of diplomatic relations on the European model, complete with ambassadors, embassies, and published treaties
What did the British want with China in the Opium Wars?
Prevent him from using military force to stop the Reformation
What did the Habsburg-Valois wars do to Charles V?
He emphasized free-market captialism
What did the West German minister of the economy do in 1957 to foster economic growth?
The largest share of gains from trade, technology, and migration would flow to the West and its propertied classes
What did the Western world hope to achieve through the global economic system?
It created a dynastic union but did not unify the separate kingdoms into a single state.
What did the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile do?
dominate the globe
What did the notorious forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: suggest Jewish elders were planning to do?
an emphasis on predestination
What differentiates Calvinism from Lutheranism?
Peace of Utrecht
What ended the War of Spanish Succession?
Reconquista
What event concluded just before Columbus' first voyage to the West?
gaining a warm-water port
What goal of Peter's did Catherine attain?
middle-class bourgeoisie
What group of people benefitted most from (or were least hurt by) large price increase in the 16th century?
Luddites
What group sabotaged machines they believed were putting them out of work?
Levellers
What group wanted all English men to have the right to vote as equals?
French and British commissioners oversaw Egyptian finances
What happened as a result of the debt Ismail accrued?
they spent most of their lies as virtual slaves
What happened to Chinese immigrants to Cuba?
buildings should be built without ornamentation and instead be practical structures with clean, straight lines
What idea does the functionalist architecture of Le Corbusier promote?
League of Nations
What international body was created following WWI, but didn't include the U.S. or U.S.S.R. at first?
an organized massacre of a specific group of people
What is a pogrom?
a pessimistic world in which helpless individuals are crushed by inexplicably hostile forces
What kind of world did Franz Kafka portray in fiction like The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926)?
The repeal of the Corn Laws
What legislation (or lack thereof) stimulated economic growth by instituting free trade in Britain?
Australia, New Zealand
What nationality(ies) of Allied soldiers are notable for fighting at Gallipoli?
A combination of military force, political domination, and an ideology of beneficial reform
What new model for European expansion did Britain establish in Egypt?
Families and friends would coordinate their migrations so that they would settle together in a new land.
What pattern did migration out of Europe often follow in the nineteenth century?
- banning torture of their subjects - reforming the bureaucracy and tax systems - patronizing the arts
What policies did enlightened monarchs adopt?
They were not well-unified, for they had differing political goals
What problem was faced by most of the underground resistance groups who opposed the Nazis?
the repeal of the laws
What resulted from the Ladies National Association's protest against the British Contagious Disease Acts in the nineteenth century?
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What spurred the emergence of Zionism?
- Maxim machine gun - quinine - steamship and international telegraph - quickly concentrate firepower
What three technologial innovations helped Europeans succeed in Africa (and new imperialism in general)?
Human love, trust, and everyday family ties are life's enduring values
What was Count Leo Tolstoy's central message in "War and Peace"?
attacked all the familiar standards of art, tried to shock audiences with insulting and nonsensical "anti-art"
What was Dadaism?
rebuilding Paris
What was Georges Haussmann's contribution to nineteenth-century life?
To gain air supremacy in anticipation of an invasion of GB
What was Germany's goal in the Battle of Britain?
The Fourteen Points
What was Wilson's plan for a peaceful postwar Europe called?
excrement from outhouses could be carried off by water through sewers at low cost
What was a central component of the improvements in sanitation in the nineteenth cenutury?
The rural poor worked for low wages, especially compared to guild masters in the cities
What was a competitive advantage of the rural putting-out system?
Dawes Plan
What was an agreement by which U.S. loans funded German reparations payments to other allies?
built on impressionist motifs, but added a deep psychological element to pictures to express "deep" inner feelings on canvas
What was expressionism?
subject matter was world around them. moving toward abstraction; capturing a fleeting moment of color and light; blurry; quickly-painte
What was impressionism?
The requirement that artists and writers idealize the working class and the Soviet Union in their work
What was socialist realism?
- deeply influenced by Freudian psychology - unconscious mind - fantastic worlds of wild dreams and uncomfortable symbols
What was surrealism?
Hitler would be defeated before the Allies mounted an all-out assault on Japan
What was the "Europe First" policy adopted by the Allied Powers during WWII?
whether or not industrialization had taken place
What was the deciding factor in which regions of the world increased their wealth and power?
Most party members preferred Trotsky's "permanent revolution" over Stalin's "socialism in one country"
What was the difference between Trotsky and Stalin in adapting socialist ideology to Russian realities?
L'Arroseur arrosé by the Lumière brothers
What was the first ever movie, and who made it?
his assertion that characteristics parents acquired in the course of their lives could be passed on to their offspring by heredity
What was the flaw in Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's theory of evolution?
to use dictatorial powers to respond to threats to France from without and within
What was the goal of the Committee of Public Safety?
German invasion of neutral Belgium
What was the immediate cause of Britain's entry in to WWI?
- methods of science could help understand all aspects of life - science could uncover laws of human society and nature - new knowledge would lead to progress and improvement
What were three central tenets of the Enlightenment?
New Granada, New Spain, Peru
What were three of Spain's viceroyalties?
Banning torture of their subjects, reforming the bureaucracy and tax systems, patronizing the arts
What were three policies/practices adopted by enlightened monarchs
abdicate
What word means "to step down from the throne"?
after the British withdrew from Palestine in 1948
When did Jews in Palestine proclaim the state of Israel?
1848
When was Louis Napoleon elected?
Neo-Europes
Where colonists sought to replicate economies and social structures they knew at home
the Philippines
Where did the journey end for the man who attempted to circumnavigate the globe?
Turkey
Where was the Battle of Gallipoli fought in WWI?
Brazil
Where was the Portuguese foothold in the New World, first trod upon by Pedro Alvarez Cabral?
Georges Clemenceau
Which "Big Four (really Big Three + Italy) leader wanted to punish Germany the most after WWI?
France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, West Germany
Which 6 Western European countries formed the European Economic Community, or Common Market, in 1957?
Portugal
Which European nation - with the help of Gnoese financiers, merchants, and navigators, initiated an exploration along the Atlantic coast of Africa in search of new sources of gold, silver, and copper?
Lavr Kornilov
Which Russian general led a failed coup d'etat that resulted in Bolsheviks being rearmed?
Stalin
Which Soviet leader introduced the Five-Year Plans?
Stalingrad
Which WWII battle was the decisive turning point in the clash between the USSR and Germany?
Dadaism
Which artistic tradition tried to show that life was meaningless, thus art should be as well?
Germany
Which country offered Austria-Hungary a "blank check" of support in summer 1914?
Great Britain
Which country was the first to industrialize on a large scale?
China
Which country was the primary consumer of Spanish silver during the 16th century?
English Bill of Rights
Which document, adopted by William and Mary, assured the superiority of Parliament over the king?
Mary Wollstonecraft
Which early feminist wrote in favor of the French Revolution?
Margaret Thatcher
Which leader was known for privatization of major enterprises in a neoliberal government?
Maria Theresa
Which monarch had 16 children, several of whom would later become powerful European monarchs?
nearly all land was used for buildings, which meant parks or open areas were almost nonexistent
Which of the following characterizes early-nineteenth-century British cities?
Europeans justified domination of non-Europeans through the spread of Christianity
Which of the following expresses the closest similarity with the scene below to European interactions with the non-European world from 1450-1600?
tomatoes
Which of the following originated in the new world: cattle, tomatoes, smallpox, sugar cane
George I
Which of these kings needed the help of a cabinet because he spoke very little English?
Prussia, Austria, and Russia
Which power participated in the partitioning of Poland in the late eighteenth century?
Prussia, Austria, and Russia
Which powers participated in the partitioning of Poland in the late eighteenth century?
Richard Nixon
Which president engaged Khrushchev in the "Kitchen Debate"?
Potosi
Which site featured a mine that yielded 60% of the world's silver in 1550?
Germany
Which state was most troubled by giving financial aid to nearly bankrupt Eurozone countries in 2012?
most could hire a full-time maid to cook and clean
Which statement describes middle-class households of the nineteenth century?
GB, France, Germany
Which were the principal investing countries?
Neville Chamberlain
Which world leader has become most closely associated with appeasement of Hitler>
Louis Blanc, Robert Owen, Henri de Saint-Simon
Who are 3 utopian socialists?
Nationalistic aristocrats
Who assassinated Grigori Rasputin in 1916?
France
Who beat the Englsih in the Hundred Years' War, forcing their seach for empire to move overseas?
William III of Orange
Who became king as a result of the Glorious Revolution?
Clergy
Who belonged to the First Estate?
clergy
Who belonged to the First Estate?
Ismail
Who built the Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas?
Churchill
Who described the separation of East and West as an "iron curtain"?
Several thousand Parisian women
Who forced the king and royal family to abandon Versailles and return to Paris?
several thousand parisian women
Who forced the king and the royal family to abandon Versailles and return to Paris?
Sir Francis Bacon
Who inspired the founding of the Royal Society in Britain shortly after his death?
Johannes Gutenberg
Who invented the printing press?
Bartolome de las Casas
Who is the Spanish priest known for protesting the encomienda system?
Henry IV of France
Who issued the Edict of Nantes?
Colonel Ahmed Arabi
Who led the Egyptian Nationalist Party?
Brunelleschi
Who made the Dome of Florence?
Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia
Who made up the Quadruple Alliance that ultimately defeated Napoleon?
Jan Van Eyck
Who painted the Arnolfini portrait?
Raphael
Who painted the School of Athens?
Muslim-controlled port cities
Who resisted the Portuguese efforts to gain control over Indian Ocean trade?
Hernando Cortes
Who said "I have come to win gold, not plow the fields like a peasant"?
Rene Descartes
Who said "I think, therefore I am" and reduced all substances to mind or matter?
Rene Descartes
Who said, "I think, therefore I am" and reduced all substances to mind or matter?
Sir Isaac Newton
Who said, "if I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants"?
Henry Cabot Lodge
Who served as Majority Leader and convinced the Senate to reject the Treaty of Versailles?
Richard Huelsenbeck
Who was a famous Dadaist?
Vincent Van Gogh
Who was a famous expressionist artist?
Salvador Dali
Who was a famous surrealist?
Atahualpa
Who was a leader of the Incan Empire?
Elizabeth I
Who was not a Stuart monarch?
Edmund Burke
Who was the English politician and philosopher who was somewhat supportive of the American revolutionaries, but critical of the French for being too radical?
Woodrow Wilson
Who was the POTUS during WWI?
Nicholas II
Who was the Russian leader at the beginning of WWI?
Slobadan Milosevic
Who was the Serbian president who led an ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia in 1991?
Thomas Paine
Who was the author of common sense?
Cardinal Richelieu
Who was the cardinal who served as regent for young Louis XIII, weakening the power of nobles?
Leni Reifenstahl
Who was the director of "Triumph of the Will", a brilliant piece of cinematic propaganda based on teh 1934 Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg?
Vasco da Gama
Who was the first Portuguese sailor to make it to India?
James I
Who was the first monarch of the English Stuart dynasty?
Klemens von Metternich
Who was the foreign minister of Austria and architect of the Congress of Vienna?
Betty Frieden
Who was the founder of the National Organization for Women?
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Who was the hero of the Haitian Revolution?
Toussaint L'Overture
Who was the hero of the Haitian Revolution?
Elizabeth
Who was the leader of England at the time of the defeat of the Spanish Armada?
Josip Broz Tito
Who was the only Communist leader able to successfully resist Soviet domination in the 1950s?
Sforza family
Who was the ruling family of the city-state of Milan?
Claude Monet (haystacks), Edgar Degas (ballerinas), Mary Cassatt
Who were famous impressionist artists?
Italian farmers who worked in South America in the winter and Italy in the summer, making much more money but living a very hard life
Who were the "swallows"?
the Dutch
Who were the biggest (ish) players in Asian imperialism, as far as exerting political control?
Frederick II the Great
Who won Silesia from Maria Theresa during the War of Austrian Succession?
the Reds
Who won the Russian Civil War?
Great Britain
Who won the Seven years' war?
Frederick II the Great
Who wone Silesia from Maria Theresa during the War of Austrian Succession?
Christine de Pizan
Who wrote "Against Those Men Who Claim It Is Not Good For Women To Be Educated"?
Abbe Sieyes
Who wrote "What is the 3rd Estate", detailing the wishes of that body of the nation of France?
abbe sieyes
Who wrote "what is the third estate" detailing the wishes of that body of the nation
Erasmus
Who wrote In Praise of Folly and wished that "even the weakest woman should read the Gospel"?
Gustave Flaubert
Who wrote Madame Bovary?
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Who wrote On the Dignity of Man & believed man had no limits on what he could accomplish?
Mary Wollstonecraft
Who wrote Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), a founding text of the feminist movement?
Rudyard Kipling
Who wrote the poem "The White Man's Burden"?
Petrarch
Who wrote, "Christ is my God; Cicero is the prince of the language I use?"
So that the German army could destroy a Polish insurgence that intended to also resist the Soviet army
Why did the Soviet army stop its advance on Warsaw in August 1944?
-great name of uncle -middle-class & peasant property owners wanted a tough ruler to protect their property from socialist workers -positive program for France circulated in pamphlets -believed that the govt. should represent the people and help them economically - POPULISM
Why was Louis Napoleon elected in 1848?
He urged Italian entry into WWI
Why was Mussolini expelled from the Italian Socialist Party?
Germany army would permit Germany to assist in the defense of Europe from attack by the Soviet Union
Why was West Germany allowed to build an army after 1955?
during the Napoleonic Wars to defeat Napoleon
Why was the Quadruple Alliance formed?
Violent anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe
Why were Jewish immigrants in the nineteenth century unlikely to return to their native land?
They were Protestand and wanted the Protestant King of England as their ruler, as opposed to an Irish Catholic king. Also, they wanted to keep their social status of being "above" the Catholics in Ireland - didn't want reversal of roles
Why would Irishmen in Ulster be opposed to Home Rule and increased sovereignty for Ireland?
Moroccan Crisis 1905
William II declared Morocco independent, rattling the cage of France and putting much of the West on notice about German territorial ambitions.
strict implementation of the treaty
With the United States' failure to ratify the Versailles Treaty many French leaders placed their hopes for future security on
Great Depression
Worldwide economic slump from 1929-1939, unique in its severity and duration
Mary Wollstonecraft
Wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Man" (1790) and "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792), the latter a founding text of the feminist movement
Boris Pasternak
Wrote Doctor Zhivago
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Wrote One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
1871
Year in which the German Empire was united, following the completion of the Franco-Prussian War
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Young Egyptian army officer who drove out the pro-Western king. He became president of a new Egyptian republic in 1954. He advocated for a nonalignment strategy and played the superpowers off one another. He Nationalized the Suez Canal Company.
Portuguese conquest of Ceuta
____ marked the beginning of European overseas expansion
Matthew Perry
______ steamed into Edo/Tokyo Bay, relying on gunboat diplomacy to demand diplomatic negotiations with the emperor
Armando Rodriguez
a Portuguese man who represented the guest worker programs put in place to attract much-needed labor to the booming economy of West Germany in the 1950s and 60s.
Economic liberalism
a belief in free trade and competition based on Adam Smith's argument that the invisible hand of the free market would benefit all individuals
thermodynamics
a branch of physics built on Sir Isaac Newton's laws of mechanics that investigated the relationship between heat and mechanical energy
indulgence
a document issued by the Catholic Church lessening penance or time in purgatory, widely believed to bring forgiveness of all sins
Salvador Dali
a leader of the surrealist movement, influenced by Freud and the unconscious. painted the melting clocks
secularism
a movement in society directed away from otherworldliness to life on earth - characteristic of the Renaissance
humanism
a program of study designed by Italians that emphasized the critical study of Latin and Greek literature with the goal of understanding human nature
Joseph Lister
a surgeon who grasped the connection between aerial bacteria and wound infection; Englishman; creates antiseptic
millet system
a system used by the Ottomans whereby subjects were divided into religious communitites, with each ___ enjoying autonomous self-government under its religious leaders
Orientalism
a term coined by literary scholar Edward Said to describe the way Westerners misunderstood and described colonial subjects and cultures
Herbert Hoover
his administration reacted to the stock market crash of 1929 and economic decline with dogged optimism but limited action
Leon Blum
leader of the French Socialist party. inspired by the New Deal, he encouraged the union movement and launched a far-reaching program of social reform, complete with paid vacations and a forty-hour workweek. ultimately did not succeed
printing press
machine for printing text or pictures from type or plates
Berlin Blockade
one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post-World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
conciliarists
people who believed that the authority in the Roman Church should rest in a general council composed of a clergy, theologians, and laypeople, rather than in the Pope alone
nativism
policies and beliefs, often influenced by nationalism, scientific racism, and mass migration, that give preferential treatment to established inhabitants over immigrants
Austrian
the Hapsburg royal family was associated most closely with the rule of which empire
the period of time in which popes resided in Avignon is known as
the babylonian captivity
Janissaries
the core of the sultan's army, composed of slave conscripts from non-Muslim parts of the empire; after 1863 it became a volunteer force
putting-out system
the eighteenth-century system of rural industry in which a merchant loaned raw materials to cottage workers, who processed them and returned the finished products to the merchant
stadtholder
the executive officer in each of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, a position often held by the princes of Orange
industrious revolution
the shift that occurred as families in northwestern Europe focused on earning wages instead of producing goods for household consumption; this reduced their economic self-sufficiency but increased their ability to purchase consumer goods
Blitzkrieg
"Lightning war"; German strategy of using the air force to bomb the enemy first, quickly followed by mobile tanks (panzers) and troop carriers
Lebensraum
"Living space"; Nazi ideology saying the German race needed room to spread out and grow by taking over regions to the east and replacing "inferior" current occupants
Horatio H. Kitchener
- British General who moved successfully up the Nile River - found a small french force at Fashoda ——-serious diplomatic crisis between two Great Powers
Cardinal Richelieu
- Cardinal to Louis XIII - used intendants for each district - repressed Protestantism - repress Catholic Habsburg power
Cardinal Mazarin
- Cardinal to Louis XIV - continued Richelieu's centralizing policies - dealt with the Fronde
James II
- Catholic English king who doesn't die but has to basically step down because he's Catholic
Tycho Brahe
- Danish astronomer who provided evidence that supported Copernicus's theory - however, he didn't really know what to do with it...Kepler took his data and proved stuff
Leopold II of Belgium
- Expansionist monarch - formed a financial syndicate to send Henry M. Stanley to the Congo basin - Gained rule over a neutral Congo Free State
Frederick II
- Prussian; "the Great" - poet and musician - no interest in war at the outset - used War of Austrian Succession to take Silesia from Maria Theresa/Austria
Frederick William I
- Prussian; the soldier king - transformed Prussia into a military and absolutist state - huuuuge army
William III of Orange and Mary
- Rule England, taking the throne in the "Glorious Revolution"
Gustavus Adolphus
- Swedish king who ushered in the 3rd/Swedish Phase of the Thirty Years' War - Devout Lutheran who supported HRE Protestants
Jules Ferry
- ardent republican who embraced imperialism - teamed up with Germany (bismarck) against the British - French guy at the Berlin Conference
95 Theses
- argues that indulgences undermine the seriousness of the sacrament of penance, - compete with Gospel preaching, - and downplay the importance of charity in Christian life - written by Martin Luther
Weath of nations
- basis for modern economics -written by Adam Smith
Ivan IV (the Terrible)
- went crazy after death of his wife - Tsar owned everything
clerial absenteeism and pluralism
- when bishops and cardiinals held more than one office at a time. some were bought - they would govern from far away in their main office and weren't extremely useful to citizens
Peter the Great
-Russian ruler who tried to get his country to be more like the rest of Europe - wanted access to the Baltic Sea
Corn Laws
1815 tariff on imported grain to protect domestic producers. Never worked well.
Greece
Achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1830 with the support of Great Britain, France, & Russia
Government should not pass laws to restrict trade and economic activity; laissez-faire capitalism
Adam Smith believed what about government's role in the economy?
government should not pass laws to restrict trade and economic activity
Adam Smith believed what about government's role in the economy?
free trade
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations advocated a system of
Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith's influential treatise on how the economies of countries should work. The basis of economic liberalism.
reestablished a harsh dictatorship
After WWII, the Soviet Union
Mexica Empire
Also known as the Aztec Empire, a large and complez Native American civilization in modern Mexico and Central America that possessed advanced mathematical astronomical, and engineering technology
a reading revolution
As more books were made available, the old style of consumin information changed, and Europe experienced:
Thomas Paine
Author of the influential pamphlet "Common Sense", he proposed that the island of Britain was too small a body to rule over the large colonial territory
Guomingdang (National People's Party)
Authoritarian party led by Jian Jeishi (Chaing Kai-shek)
20
Average age for marriage in Eastern Europe in the 17th & 18th centuries
26
Average age for marriage in W. Europe in the 17th & 18th centuries
Combination Acts
British laws passed in 1799 that outlawed unions and strikes, favoring capitalist business owners over skilled artisans
Cecil Rhodes
British military commander and capitalist who developed gold mines and established protectorates over Bechuanaland (Botswana) and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe/Zambia)
Cecil Rhodes
British military commander who believed in expansion and founded the De Beers Mining Company
Catholic Reformation
Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation; reformed and revived Catholic doctrine.
Jansenism
Catholic revival - "illegitimate offspring of the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-reformation"
Christian Democrats
Center-right political parties that rose to power in Western Europe after WW II
the Restoration
Charles II's ascension to the English throne is known as what?
Robert Jackson
Chief US prosecutor at Nuremberg
Red Chinese
Chinese Communists under Mao Zedong who began building a new society that adapted Marxism to Chinese Conditions.
Sun Yatsen
Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China
"The Catechism of Health"
Christoph Faust's work that influenced new attitudes toward the raising of and care for children
Hiroshima
City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945.
War of the Roses
Civil war for the English crown between the York (white) and Lancaster (red) families
War Guilt Clause
Clause in the Treaty of Versailles that forced Germany to accept blame for starting World War I and therefore had to pay astronomical reparations
Creoles
Direct descendants of Europeans (usually Spanish or Portuguese) who were born and raised in the New World. Resented the political control of the peninsulares
Orientalism
Discourse that positions the West as culturally superior to the East
Triumph of the Will
Documentary based on the 1934 Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg
sugar
During European expansion in the 15th century, slavery became intertwined with the history of which crop?
crucial to national security and military power
Each leading country was colonies as
Rasputin
Eccentric monk assassinated because of his corrupt influence on the Russian royal family
John Maynard Keynes
Economist who famously denounced the Treaty of Versailles, saying it would impoverish Germany, encourage Bolshevism, and hurt all countries
David Ricardo
Economist who posited that because of pop. growth, wages would always sink to subsistence levels... the "iron law of wages"
Bourgeoisie
Educated middle class
Loyalists
English colonists who maintained an allegiance to the Crown
Enclosure and land reclamation efforts - more agricultural- helped farmers grow more food for people to consume and buy - industry - and created a surplus, and because people were well-fed, they didn't get sick as often and population skyrocketed
Essay question: How and why did developments in agriculture, industry, and population affect one another?
- Catherine the Great: absolute ruler, but brought in talented writers, musicians, and intellectuals from the west. endorsed Diderot's Encyclopedia - Joseph II of Austria abolishes serfdom and decrees that peasants can pay in cash, rather than labor
Essay question: What impact did new ways of thinking have on political developments and monarchical absolutism?
Edouard Daladier
French Prime Minister at the start of WW II who - along with Chamberlain - refused to give up Poland to the Nazis
Calvinism
French Protestants, called Huguenots, were typically adherents of which protestant sect?
Consumer revolution
Growth in consumption and new attitudes toward consumer goods that emerged in NW Europe in latter 18th century
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Guaranteed liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression to all free Frenchmen
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert tells the story of a frustrated middle-class housewife who has a sordid and adulterous love affair in his masterpiece
Kaiser William II
He forced Otto von Bismarck to resign in the 1890s, keeping the spotlight on himself. He started pushing for Germany to challenge British naval superiority, causing rising tensions
Sergei Witte
He is an economic minister to Czar Alex III who preformed many reform minded actions to improve industry, including bringing in Western advisers
Jiang Jieshi (Chaing Kai-shek)
He lead the Authoritarian National People's Party. He was supported by US aid, but forced to flee to the island of Taiwan in 1949.
Suleiman
He ruled overn an empire divided into millets, each representing a different region.
James Watt
He took the steam engine created by Thomas Newcomen and made it a viable energy source by reducing wasted energy
Johannes Kepler
He was Tycho Brahe's assistant and used the Rudolphine Tables to create laws of planetary motion.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
He was assassinated on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia. His death was the spark that ignited the war.
War of the Roses
House of York vs. House of Lancaster were featured in which conflict?
faith alone, grace alone, Scripture alone
How can Luther's view be summarized?
by getting them addicted to opium
How did Britain break through the barrier of Chinese trade?
a rich north and poor south of the world emerged
How did a "lopsided world" evolve through industrialization?
Malnutrition made people susceptible to deadly diseases, which reduced the population at times, and made large-scale population growth difficult.
How did agricultural and economic conditions among the majority of Europeans in the 17th century affect the overall European population?
A switch from horse-drawn to electric streetcars made cities cleaner (less horse poop), and made it easier for people to get from one place to another, allowing to spread out/ease overpopulation.
How did electric streetcars affect industrial cities?
Arguments supporting slavery began to focus more on science and seeing races as biologically distinct groups as justification for the practice
How did justifications for slavery change from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century?
pride in one's own country led to the disdain of others. people took pride in racial characteristics and applied Darwin's theories to other people
How did nationalism in the 19th century give rise to increased racism?
they dropped their antiforeign attacks
How did the leaders of Meiji Japan do an about-face?
Low Countries and Britain
Improvements associated with the Agricultural Revolution of the 1600s-1700s are associated with which countries?
by punishing the Germans with a large reparations bill, the entire European economy was threatened
In his Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), John Maynard Keynes charged that
Meiji Restoration (1867)
Japanese embrace of Western industrialization occurred after the
general will
Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote about_______ as sacred and absolute in The Social Contract.
Mercantilist
Jean-Baptiste Colbert is best known for his ____ economic policies on behalf of Louis XIV.
the general will
Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote about ____________ as sacred and absolute in The Social Contract.
Tsar Nicholas II
Last Russian emperor and last of the Romanov Dynasty. He was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution
Mao Zedong
Led the Chinese Communists in the Chinese Civil War. He was supported by a popular grassroots uprising among peasants who wanted land reform and Soviet aid. He was able to defeat Jiang.
Consubstantiation
Luther's belief that the bread and wine is not changed but that Christ is present in spirit only
lion and fox
Machiavelli believed that a ruler should try to emulate which two animals?
preserve order and security
Machiavelli's The Prince suggests that a govenrment's fuction is to:
far left
Many avant-garde artists were ____ on the political spectrum
stagflation
Many countries in the 1970s featured low economic growth and high inflation, also known as
proletariat
Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production
Protestantism in Northern Europe
Max Weber, the most prominent and influential late-nineteenth century sociologist, argued that the rise of capitalism was directly linked to
Berlin Conference
Meeting at which Europeans agreed on rules for colonizing Africa
Methodists
Members of a Protestant revival movement started by John Wesley were called:
Hundred Days Campaign
Napoleon's return and final desperate fight against the Allies lasted about 3 months
Louis XVIII
Napoleon's successor - the Bourbon monarch who took over France during Napoleon's exiles
Duma
National legislature of Russia. It did not have much power, as the tsar had an absolute veto
Mau Mau Rebellion
Nationalist Rebellion in Kenya that British forces brutally crushed in the early 1950s
Albert Speer
Nazi minister of armaments who put to work millions of POWs and slave laborers.
Edict of Nantes
Passed by King Henry IV in 1598, it granted the Huguenots liberty of conscience and worship.
Treaty of Paris 1783
Peace agreement in which Britain recognized American independence and ceded territory east of the Mississippi River
Treaty of Paris
Peace agreement to end the Seven Years' War in 1763
Called by Charles V to officially recognize Lutheranism
Peace of Augsburg
Chapbooks
Popular genre of literature produced cheaply and that featured Bible stories, prayers, and stories of exemplary Christians to appeal to the pious crowd
Paris went from being a dark labyrinth of overcrowded streats to having wide, open boulevards with trees and plenty of space. New railroads connected one part of the city to another, allowing the city to grow in land area and ease overcrowding by easing travel.
Provide two ways in which Paris in 1900 differed from Paris in 1848
Boyars
Russian landowning nobles were called what?
Alexander Kerensky
Russian lawyer and politician who served as the minister of the Russian Provisional Government. Big mistake was remaining in WW I
Leon Trotsky
Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army during the Russian Civil War. "Permanent revolution" proponent
Czar Alexander I
Russian ruler who tried to withdraw from the Continental System, drawing the ire of Napoleon and an invasion by the Grand Army.
Adam Smith
Scottish economist who wrote the Wealth of Nations a precursor to modern Capitalism.
Industrious Revolution
Shift that occurred as families in northwestern Europe focused on earning wages instead of producing good for household consumption
Declaration of Independence
Signed in July 1776, this document proclaimed that all men are created equal and guaranteed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Ukraine
Site of peasant resistance to collectivization; resulted in a man-made famine as retaliation from the Soviet government that killed 3 million people
Five-year plan
Stalin's "revolution from above"; Soviet attempt to artificially engineer the industrial revolution and transform society into a communist state; generate new attitudes, new loyalties, a new socialist humanity, and transform industry in the country
true
T/F colonial independence movements were impacted by hostilities between the superpowers
True
T/F in 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, zealous opponents of modern art of all kinds, shut down the Bauhaus, forcing many of the prominent teachers and students to flee to the U.S.
true
T/f Ernest Renan believed that a nation could be formed through shared suffering or glory in the past, as well as common hopes and dreams for the future.
it helped deepen the religious and political conflicts that plagued the Third Republic
The Dreyfus Affair had political repercussions that lasted well into the twentieth century because
the Malay archipelago
The Dutch gained control of _____, gradually bringing almost three thousand miles under their political authority through imperialism in Asia.
Tewfiq
The Egyptian Nationalist Party pressured the government, forcing Ismail to abdiate in favor of his weak son, _____
Sir Francis Drake
The English "sea dog" who was knighted by Elizabeth I, angering Philip II of Spain.
George III
The English monarch at the time of the American Revolution. He reigned 1760-1820.
the power of the rular was absolute and prevented civil war
The English philosopher Thomas hobbes held that:
Tories
The English political partie that favored maintaining the status quo, and was more aristocratic.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Enlightenment thinker who wrote "Emile" about how education should involve more exploration of the natural world, in addition to book learning
German Social Democrats
The German Communist Party, noisy and active in the 1920's, reserved their greatest hatred and sharpest barbs for
hyperinflation
The German government's printing of money to pay unemployment benefits to workers striking in the Ruhr against the Franco-Belgian occupation of 1923 led to
cameralism
The German science of public administration that held monarchy up as the best form of government was:
Limited monarchy
The Glorious Revolution created which type of government in England?
Austrian
The Habsburg royal family was associated most closely with the rule of which empire?
electors
The Holy Romen emperor was chosen by German princes, called:
man's worth, ability, and achievements
The Humanist movement stressed:
Simon Bolivar
The Latin American George Washington known as "El Liberdator" as he helped several regions break away from Spain. He created the short-lived "Gran Colombia" and served as its president
greatly weakened the international nature of medieval culture
The establishment of new colleges and universities in the years following Black Death did what?
Faith healing
The exorcism of evil spirits in order to cure disease
Carnival
The few days of revelry in Catholic countries that preceded Lent and that had masquerading and dancing.
Sans-culottes
The laboring poor of Paris, so called because the men wore trousers instead of the knee breeches of the aristocracy and middle class; the word came to refer to the militant radicals of the city.
Czar Nicholas II
The last czar of the Russian Empire and Romanov Dynasty.
Escorial
The palace that Philip II used as a hub of government business. he spent many hours there working
Superego
The part of the personality in Freud's theory that is responsible for making moral choices based on internalized cultural or parental standards
Reign of Terror
The period from 1793 to 1794 during which Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety tried and executed thousands suspected of treason and a new revolutionary culture was imposed
Babylonian Captivity
The period of time when the popes resided in Avignon, rather than in Rome.
Postcolonial migration
The postwar movement of people from former colonies and the developing world into Europe.
Decolonization
The postwar reversal of Europe's overseas expansion caused by the rising demand of the colonized peoples themselves, the declining power of European nations, and the freedoms promised by US and Soviet ideals.
Pablo Picasso
The premier artist of cubism - a highly analytical approach to art concentrated on complex geometry
New South Wales
The territory on the east coast of Australia claimed by Cap't Cook. Will be the site of the first British settlement in Australia - Botany Bay in 1788
France (Franco-Prussian War)
The third (and final) war of German unification took place between Prussia and which country?
Estates
The three legal categories, or orders, of France's inhabitants: the clergy, the nobility, and everyone else
Columbian exchange
The transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between New and Old World societies after 1492.
Proletarianization
The transformation of large numbers of small peasant farmers into landless rural wage earners
Proletarianization
The transformation of large numbers of small peasant farmers into landless rural wage earners.
Montesquieu
The two most important Enlightenment thinkers for late-18th-century liberals were Lock and _______
a small farmer or rural craftsperson
The typical European immigrant between 1880-1910 was
bind the six members of the European Coal and Steel Community so closely that war would be impossible
The ultimate goal of the plan for an international organization to coordinate coal and steel production in Europe in the 1950s was to
Alexandria
This Egyptian city attracted European army officers, engineers, doctors, government officials, police officers, traders, financiers, and shippers
Suez Canal Company
This company had been the last symbol and substance of Western power in the Middle East. It was nationalized by Nasser in July 1956.
Sigmund Freud
This man popularized notions that human behavior springs from irrational forces and unconscious.
Arthur Young
This person argued for the benefits of enclosure in England because he believed it would ead to increased agricultural outputs.
Robert Jackson
This person was the lead prosecutor at the Nuremburg trials following WWII. When he wasn't taking down Nazi ringleaders, he served as a Supreme Court Justice.
The Test Act
This said that Puritans, Catholics, and other dissenters did not have the right to assemble, hold public office, or vote.
Treaty of Nanking (1842)
This treaty ceded the island of Hong Kong to Britain, made China pay an indemity of $100MM, and open up 4 large cities to unlimited foreign trade with low tariffs.
clockmaer
Voltaire and other Enlightenment thinkers saw God as akin to a ______, and are considered deists.
clockmaker
Voltaire and other Enlightenment thinkers saw God as aking to a _______, and are considered deists.
General Henri-Philippe Petain
WW I vet put in charge of Vichy France; disbanded the Third French Republic and wielded a lot of power under German reins
The idea of a system designed to perpetuate Western economic domination and undermine political independence
What does neocolonialism refer to?
Peace of Westphalia (1648)
What ended the Thirty Years' War?
Spanish Inquisition
What tribunal was set up to deal with conversos under the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella?
Beliefs and policies that gave preferential treatment to established inhabitants over immigrants
What was "nativism" in the nineteenth century?
A small, fast German tank
What was a Panzer (WWII)?
the burst of industrial creativity and technological innovation that promoted strong economic growth toward the end of the nineteenth century
What was the Second Industrial Revolution?
to meet the threat posed by outside powers
What was the all-important goal of the architects of the Meiji Restoration?
the promotion of the "greatest good for the greatest number"
What was the basic principle of philosopher Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism?
Diseases were caused by specific living organisms that could be controlled
What was the breakthrough implication of Louis Pasteur's work?
The human race was driven by an unending economic struggle that would determine the survival of the fittest
What was the core concept of Social Darwinism?
The possibility of buying land in the home country
What was the primary factor that influenced whether European immigrants returned to their native land?
They had a poorly defnined political program that failed to unite the enemies of the Bolsheviks
What was the primary political weakness of the White forces as they fought against the Bolsheviks?
It was designed to prevent a single Italian state from dominating the peninsula
What was the purpose of Italian balance-of-power diplomacy?
An inconclusive standoff that set the stage for further warfare
What was the result of the War of Austrian Succession?
- methods of science could help understand all aspects of life - science could uncover laws of human society & nature - new knowledge would lead to progress and improvement
What were some new ideas about society and human relations that emerged in the Enlightenment?
Brazil, Calicut, Ceuta
What were three Portuguese colonies/trading outposts?
Willy Brandt
Which West German chancellor introduced "Ostpolitik" during a time of detente in the 1970s?
Maria Theresa
Who succeeded Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI as the Austrian Habsburg monarch thanks to the Pragmatic Sanction?
Maria Theresa
Who succeeded Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI as the Austrian Hapsburg monarch thanks to the Pragmatic sanction?
Elizabeth
Who was Anne Boleyn's child?
Mary
Who was Catherine of Aragon's child?
Edward
Who was Jane Seymour's child?
The founder of the Jewish national movement
Who was Theodore Herzl?
France
Who won the Hundred Years' War?
he wanted to win the support of the traditional military, but the SA leaders had expected appointment to top positions in the army
Why did Hitler have the leadership of the SA storm troopers, roughly one hundred individuals, killed in 1934?
They viewed marriage as a contract for mutual support, and married partners who failed to provide support endangered their souls and the entire community
Why did Protestans allow the dissolution of marriages in divorce?
He believed that as landowners they would eventually embrace conservative capitalism and become great enemies of socialist progress
Why did Stalin call for the mass murder of the kulaks?
the higher incidence of marriage for expectant mothers
Why did illegitimacy rates decline after 1850?
They sought to analyze the massive sets of numerical data that governments had collected
Why did social scientists develop statistical methods to test their theories?
he urged Italian entry into WWI
Why was Mussolini exdpelled from the Italian socialist Party?
7.5
Women who bore 6 children faced a cumulative risk of dying of about this percentage
Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson's plan for eternal peace following the end of WW I
"Big Three"
Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, & David Lloyd George at the Paris Peace Conference
Michel de Montaigne
Wrote essay about cannibalism where he argued that all traditions and customs are relative. Ushered in cultural curiosity and era of doubt
Alban Berg
Wrote the opera Wozzeck with half-sung, half-spoken dialogue of a man with Kafka-like inner monologue
1848
Year in which Giuseppe Mazzini's attempt at creating a democratic republic in Rome failed
Conversos
a term for Jews and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula who accepted Christianity; in many cases they included Christians whose families had converted centuries earlier
John Wyclif
an English scholar and theologian who argued that Scripture alone should be the standart of Christian belief and practice and that papal claims of secular power had no foundation in the Scriptures.
Michelangerlo
artist who made David and the Sistine Chapel ceiling
Edwin Chadwick
believed that government could help prevent disease by cleaning up the urban environment
Pasteur
developed the germ theory of disease
Robert Koch
doctor who led the way in German identification and study of harmful bacteria
skepticism
doubt whether definitive knowledge is ever attainable
Capitalism
economic system and an ideology based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit
Malacca
entrepot/trading post in South China Sea. kept Asian porcelain, silk, camphor,, pepper, cloves, sandalwood, sugar, textiles, copper, incense, dyes, opium
isaac newton
f=ma and the law of universal gravitation are two parts of this thinker's synthesis of physics.
Isaac Newton
f=ma; the law of universal gravitation are two parts of this thinker's synthesis of physics
cossacks
free groups and outlaw armies originally comprising runaway peasants living on the borders of Russian territory from the fourteenth century onward. By the end of the sixteenth century they had formed an alliance with the Russian state
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
futurism. idea that traditional culture could not deal with the advances of modern technology and the way thses had changed human consciousness. wanted radically new art forms that would express the human condition
Arnold Schönberg
made a twelve-tone scale/tone row to make independent and unrelated notes. music known as "atonal"
Jesuits
members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola. Goal: spread R.C. faith.
Mercantilism
national economic policy designed to maximize the trade of a nation and especially to maximize the accumulation of gold and silver
Rudolphine Tables
new and improved tables of planetary motions, made by Tycho Brahe
The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
novel in which the "pure selfishness" of Eruopeans in supposedly civilizing Africa is castigated; main character turns from liberal scholar to savage brute
Lorenzo de' Medici
one of the Florentine ruling family; sponsored many famous artists in his court, including Michelangelo
Le Corbusier
promoter of functionalism who laid out guidelines meant to revolutionize building design. rejected ornamentation for clean, straight linees
Sun Yatsen
radical Chinese reformer who sought to overthrow the government and establish a republic
Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
revealed China's helplessness in the face of aggression, triggering a rush by foreign powers for concessions and protetorates (increased foreign encroachment)
Empress dowarger Tzu Hsi
revived Qing Dynasty, combining shrewd insight with vigorous action to revitalize the bureaucracy
neo-Europes
settler colonies with established populations of Europeans, such as North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America, where Europe found outlets for population growth and its most profitable investment opportunities in the nineteenth century
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
succeeded Gropius as Bauhaus director, made classic steel-frame and glass-wall Lake Shore Apartments in Chicago
Suleiman
sultan during the Ottoman golden age; extended their rule deep into Europe
true
t/f Gandhi lived to see India gain its independence
true!!
t/f from the repeal of the Corn Laws to WWI, Britain remained the globe's largest trader of agricultural, raw, and manufactured goods
true
t/f prior to the Berlin Conference, Bismarck saw little value in colonies.
false
t/f: The revolutionaries who lead the Mountain favored a nation-state that embraced its Catholic roots, and they sought to bring the Church closer to the government after it had been shunned by Louis XIV and Louis XV.
enlightened absolutism
term coined by historians to describe the rule of eighteenth-century monarchs who, without renouncing their own absolute authority, adopded Enlightenment ideas of rationalism, progress, and tolerance
froze them at pre-1347 levels
the English Statute of Laborers (1351) did what to wages?
Charles V
the grandson of Ferdinand and Isabella and Maximilian I, who inherited the Habsburg empire
white man's burden
the idea that Europeans could and should civilize more primitive nonwhite peoples and that imperialism would eventually rpovide nonwhites with modern achievements and higher standards of living
economic liberalism
the idea that government should not interfere in the workings of the economy
global mass migration
the mass movement of people from Europe in the nineteenth century; one reason that the West's impact on the world was so powerful and many-sided
enclosure
the movement to fence in fields in order to farm more effectively, at the expense of poor peasants who relied on common fields for farming and pasture
Pope Martin V
the pope elected after the end of the Great Schism, but does not make reforms to Church as promised by the council that elected him and healed the rift
virtu
the quality of being able to shape the world according to one's own will
Meiji Restoration
the restoration of the Japanese emperor to power in 1867, leading to the subsequent modernization of Japan
wealthy, educated commoners
the term "bourgeoisie" refers to:
rousseau
the two most important Enlightenment thinkers for late-18th-century liberals were locke and:
gunboat diplomacy
the use or threat of military force to coerce a government into economic or political agreements
bourgeoisie
the wealthy middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people
Hohenzollern Dynasty
this Prussian dynasty ruled over three disconnected masses in Germany known as Brandenburg-Prussia
Audencias
this term refers to local councils of 12-15 judges tht assisted each Spanish victory in the New World.
fur-collar crime
those higher up the social scalep prey on those who are less well-off; a medieval version of today's white-collar crime
Pogrom
violent attack on a minority group, often a Jewish community
confraternities
voluntary lay groups organized by occupation, devotional preference, neighborhood, or charitable activity
Henry VIII
was the English King who declared himself head of the Church of England
FDR
won a landslide election with promises of a "New Deal for the forgotten man". rejected socialism and government ownership of industry, advocated forceful government intervention in the economy and instituted a broad range of government-supported programs designed to stimulate the economy and provide jobs
T.S. Eliot
wrote "The Waste Land", a poem rejecting progress and describing an "anti-utopia," with biblical references, images of a ruined and wasted natural world, and general human incomprehension, expressing the widespread despair that followed the First World War
Daniel Defoe
wrote A Plan of the English Commerce stating that basically every woman and little child was working