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What country does not participate in the 1848 revolution?
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Sweden
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How does Sweden respond to the Great Depression?
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Great because of it's unique form of socialism.
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The Great Northern War
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Peter the Great invades Sweden for Window to the West
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Gustavus Adolfus
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kills lots of Jews in Sweden
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Ottoman Empire
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"the sick man of Europe". peak in 16th century
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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leads womans suffrage in Britian
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Dominant country in 15th century
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Italy
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Dominant country in 16th century
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Spain
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Dominant countries in 17th century
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Netherlands, then Great Britain
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Dominant country in 18th century
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Britian (econonmy) and Prussia (army)
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Dominant countries in 19th century
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England (economy) then Germany
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Dominant countries in 20th century
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Germany until 1940s then USSR
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Sack of Rome
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1527 - by Charles V, end of Enlightenment,
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Printing Press
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1450 - Protestant reformation
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Henry VII
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starts Tudor dynasty after winning War of the Roses
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Scientific revolution
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begins in the 16th century
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Copernicus
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heliocentric universe
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Aristotle
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geocentric
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Diet of Worms
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Luther named an outlaw
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Council of Trent
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Catholic Counter-Reformation Attempt for reforms
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Spanish Armada
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Phillip II in 1588
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Edict of Nantes
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Henry IV (Bourbon). Ends French Civil wars, allows Hugeonauts to practice in certain towns
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Time of Troubles
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1588 in Russia
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Act of Supremacy
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makes Henry VIII head of Church of England
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95 Theses
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Luthers attack on Catholic Church
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Hapsburg Valois Wars (1519-1559)
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ended by Peace of Augsburg, Cateau-Cambresis
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French Civil Wars
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ended by Edict of Nantes
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Revolt of Netherlands
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1566-1588
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Cardinal Richeleiu
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adviser to Louis XIII, intendant system
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Intendant System
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effective bureaucratic system for Louis XIII
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Romanov family ends..
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Time of Troubles
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Glorious Revolution
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1688-89
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Siege of Vienna
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1683- ends Ottoman control of Austria
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30 Years War
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Peace of Westphalia, between France and HRE, catholics vs. protestants, decentralization of HRE
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Stuart Sandwhich
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James I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Charles II, James II
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William of Orange and Mary
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came to throne in England after Glorious Revoultion and Stuart sandwhich
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Oliver Cromwell
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army dictator. New Model Army. won English Civl War
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New Model Army
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English Civil War, full time professional soldiers
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Thomas Hobbes
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believed people were a clean slate
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John Locke
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believed all people were born evil
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Descartes
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inductive thinking
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Sir Francis Bacon
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deductive thinker
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Newton
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intertia. gravity
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Cardinal Mazarin
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adviser to Louis XIV
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What king takes away the Edict of Nantes?
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Louis XIV
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Kepler
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proves Copernicus's theory
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Agricultural Revolution begins when?
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18th century
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18th century Protestant revival called
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pietism
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Jenner
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produces the innoculation for small pox
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18th century: middle class..
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growing with more education
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Partition of Poland in..
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end of 18th century
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Enlightenment in..
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18th century
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Great Fear
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Robspierre and Committee of Public Safety
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Pragmatic Sanction
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Charles VI ensures that his empire wont be split up (Austria)
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Tennis Court Oath
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Third Estate memebers who wouldnt leave until a new constitution was written
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4 major events of French Revolution..
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Storming of the Bastille, Tennis Court Oath, Women's March to Versaille, and the Great Fear
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Thermidorian Reaction
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ends Robespierre and Reign of Terror and Second Phase
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Declarations of Rights of Man
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French Constitution
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1792-1794
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French Second Phase of Revolution (Radical Republic)
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1789
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The French Revolution
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1715
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Louis XIV dies
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The War of Spanish Sucession is between ____ over _____.
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Louis XIV of France and HRE over Phillip V
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Treaty of Utrecht
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War of Spanish Sucession (Spain and France cannot unite thrones)
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The War of Austrian Sucession is by ____ over _____.
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Charles VI of Austria.. Maria Theresa's legitamacy to the throne
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7 Years War is between
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France, Russia, HRE vs. Prussia and Great Britain
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Metternich
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ran Congress of Vienna to help prevent Austria from splitting up
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Congress of Vienna
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conservative monarchies of Europe want power back (France, Austria, GB, Prussia, Russia). established and maintained peace in Europe (goal)
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Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)
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president of France's second republic, Crimean War, Haussman's renovations
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Haussman's Plan
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renovated Paris to prevent riots and beautify city
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Giuseppe Mazzini
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unified Italy. nationalist
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Victor Emmanuel
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King of Sardinia and Italy
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Camillo Cavour
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prime minister of Sardonia and Italy. unify northern italy.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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led "red shirts" in war to unify southern and northern spain. lets Victor Emmanuel be king
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Wilhelm II
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German Emporer and King of Prussia during the beginning of WWI. tears up Russian-German Reinsurance Treaty. Fires Bismark
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Otto von Bismarck
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First chancellor of Germany, Prime minister of Prussia. oversaw German unification. "blood and iron". expels Austria from German affairs.
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Wilhelm I
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King of Prussia. oversaw German unification. hires Bismark to build him a huge army
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Alexander II
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Czar of Russia. freed serfs. zemstov. independant courts. censorship relaxed
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Alexander III
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Czar of Russia, enforced pogroms. constructed Trans-Siberian Railroad. "use the west to catch up with the west"
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Louis Blanc
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utopianist. government funded workshops, right to work, "organization of work", universal voting rights
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Karl Marx
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Communist Manifesto. "dictatorship of the proletariate". society run by the working class. too much class struggle
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Thomas Malthus
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population always grows faster than food supply
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David Ricardo
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always poor people in society because people are willing to get paid enough to survive
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Friedrich List
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promoted German Power.
Zollverien.
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Louis Pasteur
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diseases caused by germs. Germ Theory
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Emile Zola
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J'Accuse
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Alfred Dreyfus
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the French officer on trial for treason but really for anti-sematism
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Dreyfus Affair
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French military anti-semitism scandal in 19th century
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Charles Turnip Townsend
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developed crop rotation in England
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George Stephenson
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built "the Rocket" train
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London Crystal Palace
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Great Expostiion/Exhibition.
"workshop of the world"
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Fritz Harkort
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"watt of Germany".
dismantled machienes and assembled them in Germany
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Zollverein
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German customs union.
no tariffs for trade between German states
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Luddites
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break factory machienes
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Engles
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charged middle class with murder and robbery. culprit was capitalism
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Robert Owen
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strictly anti-child labor
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Combination Acts
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unions illegal in England
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Chartist Movement
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universal male sufferage
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Holy Alliance
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Prussia, Austria, Russia.
Goal: repress liberal ideas.
controlled German confederation
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Carlsbad Decrees
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demaned that German confederation eliminated ideas in schools and media
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Balence of Power
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no one should be able to defeat any two countries combined
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Liberalism
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Middle class. equality in law, representative government, specific freedoms. capitalist economy
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Nationalism
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pride in country, belief taht people of a country share same religion, language, culture. "symphony of nations". us vs. them mentality
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Jules Michelet
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nationalism. "symphony of nations". supported by Giuseppe Mazzini
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Utilitarianism
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"government should prived the greatest good for the greatest number of people"- Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill
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Utopianism
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"government should effectivly organize the economy" (ex. second phase of French rev.) "government should protect poor from the rich", "private property should be regulated by government"
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Henri Saint-Simon
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Utopianist. called nobels "parasites". stressed science and education
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Fourier
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utopianist. believed in emancipation of women, no marriage, marriage is prostitution
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Pierre Proudhon
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utopianist. "what is property?"-theft
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Marxist Socialism
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"history is a history of class struggles". Middle class exploits lower class. bourgeosie vs proletariat. violent revolution. classless society. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles.
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The Communist Manifesto
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles. classless society
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Romanticism
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revolt against classicism. emotions, feelings, nature, imagination. "sturm and drang". nature=beauty. industry=brutal.
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Delacroix
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"Liberty Leading the People".. Romanticism
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Goya
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"3rd of May, 1808" romanticism
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Beethoven
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"5th symphony" romanticism
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Gericault
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"Raft of the Medusas" romanticism
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Victor Hugo
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"Les Miserables" romanticism
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Lord Bryon
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romanticism poet
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Greece was controlled by...
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Ottomans
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Greece freed by..
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Britain, France, Russia .. revolt helped by Lord Bryon
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Tory Party
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conservative.
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Great Depression hit.. worst
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Germany
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Whig Party
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more in touch with the common man
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Corn Laws
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illegal to buy foreign grain in England
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Reform Bill of 1832
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more voting rights in England. eliminated rotten boroughs
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Louis XVIII
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starts chamber of deputys (french parliment) and constitutional charter
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Charles X of France
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returns to absolute monarchy, quick revolt, flees
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every country except ____ and ____ revolt in 1848
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great britain and Russia
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Louis Philippe in the French 1848 rev.
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refused reform, constitutional charter, people of paris establish a 10 man democratic republic. all men can vote, 10 hr. workday. free slaves. no death penalty. free market. government workshops
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June Days (france)
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liberals vs. radicals.
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Austria in 1848 rev.
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Metternich flees, abolish serfdom, economy clash. conservatives in charge. Archdutchess Sophie,(son) Emporer Francis I
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Prussia in 1848 rev.
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Fredrick William IV overthrown. liberal contitution. then Austria brings back Fredrick William IV
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Frankfurt Assembly
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unifies all German states in 1848
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James Hargreaves
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invented the Spinny Jenny
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Robert Koch
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studied bacteria
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Joseph Lister
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connection of arial bacteria and infections. Listers Antiseptic Principal
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Miasmatic Theory of Disease
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belief taht people get disease when they breath bad odors
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Chadwick
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disease was related to filthy enviroment conditions
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Michael Faraday
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electromagnitism. invented the generator
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Louis Napoleon and 2nd Republic of France
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elected for a 4-year as president. universal male suffrage. didnt like parliments or political parties. believed in strong leader. increased role of catholic church in schools. took aways voting rights from poor. coup d'etat (national assembly disbanded)
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Danish Struggle
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Denmark wanted Schleswig and Holstein. Prussia and Austria defeat Denmark
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Austro-Prussian War (7 Weeks War)
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Prussia destroys Austria. Prussia establishes North German Confederation
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Franco-Prussian War
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Ems telegram. People of Paris declare 3rd Republic. Prussia wins. Germany declared a country and 2nd Reich. Wilhelm becomes Kaiser. France gives up Alsace-Lorraine
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Crimean War
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Russia lost to Ottoman Empire. Russia forced to industrialize
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zemstvo
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local governments
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pogroms
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organized violence against jews
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Sergei Witte
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built the Trans-Siberian Railroad for Alexander III
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1905 Russian rev.
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czar is Nicholas II. Bloody Sunday. October Manifesto. Duma
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Bloody Sunday
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October 1905. workers march to Winter Palace( St. Petersburg). guards openfire
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Russo-Japanese War
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Russia wanted Korea. Japan crushes Russia
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October Manifesto
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civil rights to people of Russia
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Labour Party in GB
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socialist.. unemployment benifits, medical care, old age pensions, subsidized housing, free education
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Kulterkampf
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Bismarks attempt to attack Catholic Church. Pius XI claimed papal infallibility. Catholics form Catholic Center Party
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Protectionism
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High tarrifs. tied to nationalism
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Adolf Thiers
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"3rd republic is the governemtn that divides us the least"
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3rd Republic of France
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Dreyfus Affiar, free education, legalized unions, lessened role of Catholic Church.
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Carl Luger
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mayor of Vienna. anti-semite. hero of Adolf Hitler
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Austria-Hungry
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1867 becomes a dual-empire monarchy
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May Day
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Workers strike
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Edward Burnstein
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"evolutionary socialism" : socialism will catch on slowly
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3 Emporers League
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Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary
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Dual Alliance
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Germany and Austria-Hungary
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Triple Alliance
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Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
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Alliance of the 3 Emporers
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secret alliance. Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary
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Russian-German Reinsurance Treaty
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secret treaty. Germany will give Russia money, money, engineers. if Russia invades A-H then Germany will side with A-H and crush Russia. if A-H invades Russia then Germany will stay neutral
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Dual Entente
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France and Russia
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Triple Entente
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GB, France, Russia
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Balkan Penninsula
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"powder keg of Europe". Breaking away from Ottoman.
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Franz Ferdinand
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Archduke of Austria-Hungary. killed in Sarajevo in Bosnia by Black Hand
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Black Hand
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serbian terrorist group.
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"the blank check"
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Germany gives to Austria-Hungary
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Schlieffen Plan
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Germany will attack and defeat France then defeat Russia
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Battle of the Marne
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WWI. Germans stalled. creates a 2 front war for Germany
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Western Front
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WWI. trench warfare. Battle of the Somme, Battle of the Verdun
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Paul von Hindenburg and Ludenburg
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led Germany in WWI
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Eastern Front
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WWI. Battle of Tarnenburg (Germans crush Russians)
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Central Powers
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
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Allies
Definition
France, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, Italy, USA
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Lusitainia
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sunk by German submarines, USA joins war
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Zimmerman Note
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telegram sent by Germany asking Mexico to invade USA
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Total War
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capitalism gone. government controlled quantity and prices. rationing. illegal to strike.socialism. Auxilary Service Law
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Auxiliary Service Law
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every man 17-60 had to have a war-related job (Germany)
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Vladimir Lenin
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Marxist ideas. wanted immediate change. led Bolshevicks. "peace, love, bread"
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Bolshevicks
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immediate change
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Menshevicks
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wanted slow change
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Progressive Block
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Russia wanted a new government only responsible to the Duma
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Rasputin
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helps bring down czar. holy man for Alexis
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Women march for Bread
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st. petersburg 1914. helps abdicate Nicholas II
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Kerensky
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led provisional government. puts in reforms and freedoms. *mistake: continues fighting WWI
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Army Order #1
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led to chaos in Russian army because there was no order
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Treaty of Brest Litovsk
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called Bolesheviks communist
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Russian Civil War
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Red army vs. White army. Red wins. kills royal family
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2nd Battle of the Marne
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Allies win.
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German Revolution
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moderate socialist set up a republic after Wilhelm II abdicates. communists never gain power
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Which of the following factors led most immediatly to the conviening of the French Estates-General
Definition
the impending bancrupcy of the French government
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What is not associated to the commercial revolution in early modern europe?
Definition
an explansion of the guild system
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The Protestant Reformation changed the social roles of 16th century women by
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reducing acess to religous orders
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the goal of the USSR's first 5 year plan was to
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build up heavy industry
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Charles I of England did not try to obtain revenues by
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grants from parliment
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Treaty of Versailles ends... with which countries...
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WWI.. USA, France, Great Britain
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Treaty of Versailles excluded
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Germany
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14 Points in Treaty of Versailles only (4)
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reduce # of arms, no secret treaties, self determination, league of nations
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Germany has to pay... for WWI reparations
Definition
$33 billion
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Great Britains problem in 1920s
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unemployment.. creates a welfare state
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Alsace-Lorraine is given to... after WWI
Definition
France
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Mein Kampf
Definition
Hitler's book he writes in prison
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The Rhineland
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The buffer state between Germany and France after WWI
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Spirit of Locarno
Definition
Switzerland. peace meeting between Germany and France
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Austria, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Iran, Finland, Serbia, Chezcoslovakia
Definition
New nations formed from Treaty of Versailles
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Paul Valery
Definition
attacked humanity after WWI
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Friedrich Nietzche
Definition
early Existentialist. "god is dead", "meaninglessness of society"
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Logical Empiricism
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main issues (God, happiness, morality, freedom) were senseless because they cant be proved
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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main thinker for logical empiricism
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Existentialism
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Europe over-emphasized progress and reason. "meaninglessness" of life. supermen of society. GOD IS DEAD.
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Jean-Paul Sarte
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"Humans appear on the scene". dispain and meaninglessness. humans must act decisively to find purpose
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
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1928- 15 nations, "refuse war as an instrument of national policy" anti-war, arms reduction, unenforcable
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Soren Kieregaard
Definition
Christian existentialist
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Christian Existenialism
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believed in despair of life, but that we are naturally sinful humans, so we need god for forgiveness
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Marie Curie
Definition
atoms are made up of electrons and protons
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Max Planck
Definition
quanta
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Einstein
Definition
Theory of Relativity: time and space are relative, speed of light is only constant
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Rutherford
Definition
atoms can be split, atomic energy
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Heisenburg
Definition
Uncertainty Principal
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Sigmund Freud
Definition
Oedipus Complex. most thoughts come from subconcious. Id, Ego, Superego.
Term
Id
Definition
animalistic, pleasure-seeking, unconcious desires. (sex, hunger, thirst, advoidance of pain)
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Ego
Definition
rationalizing concious
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Superego
Definition
moral values
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Sublimation/Repression
Definition
defense mechanisms
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Age of Anxiety literature..
Definition
focused on irrationality and complexity of mind
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George Orwell
Definition
"1984"
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Oswald Spengler
Definition
"Decline of the West" . rise of the asian race
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functionalism
Definition
"Banhaus" by Walter Gropins
Term
Impressionism
Definition
1870s.. Monet, Manet, Degas
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Post-Impressionism
Definition
1890s.. Van Gogh
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Cubism
Definition
Term
Dadaism
Definition
1920s
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Surrealism
Definition
1920s.. dream like.. "Persistence of Memory" by Dali
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Treaty of Versaille
Definition
failed
Term
John Maynard Keynes
Definition
criticized Treaty of Versailles. said reparations would make all economies worse. needed a new treaty with no reparation
Term
1921
Definition
France deciedes that Germany must pay back all reparations for WWI in 50 years
Term
Weimar Republic
Definition
makes first reparation. tells workers in Ruhr Valley to stop working but kept paying them = hyperinflation
Term
Raymond Poinecare
Definition
French Prime minister sends French and Belgian armies to Ruhr Valley to collect reparations from Germany
Term
Gustav Stesemann
Definition
negotiates a compromise with France to eventually pay reparations
Term
Dauves Plan
Definition
1924- loans money to Germany to help economy recover (sucess)
Term
Great Britain during Great Depression
Definition
stayed pretty sucessful. self-sufficient. focused on national, than international market
Term
Great Depression in France
Definition
Popular Front gains power, polarizing effects (people go radical
Term
Totalitarianism
Definition
no rights, freedoms, government control everything
Term
Facism
Definition
Mussolini. expansion, anti-socialist.
Term
Chzechslovakia was only socialist country with out a
Definition
dictator
Term
New Economic Policy
Definition
lets peasants sell surplus food for profit. banks, railroads, industry nationalized
Term
1928
Definition
Stalin takes over
Term
5 Year Plan
Definition
collective farms unsucessful- (peasants forced to give up land), industry-sucessful (oil, steel, coal, electricity)
Term
Kulaks
Definition
landowning peasants against collective farms
Term
living in USSR
Definition
standard of living went down, free education and medicine, women equal as men (abortion and divorce legal)
Term
Stalin
Definition
propaganda, censorship, atheism, Great Purge, 5 Year Plan, collective farming
Term
Great Purge
Definition
Stalins attack on enemies within USSR
Term
Black Shirts
Definition
Marched to Rome, overthrows King (Mussolini granted dictatorship for 1 year)
Term
Mussolini
Definition
arrested political opponants, disbanded unions, conroled schools, made vatican own state,
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Communism
Definition
government controls buisness
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Facism
Definition
Buisness controls government
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Mussolini never controlled... nor granted
Definition
buisness, army ... land reforms (agriculture
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Women during Mussolinis reign
Definition
status declined (no divorce, stay home)
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