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Final Exam Western Civ 102
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Undergraduate 2
12/06/2011

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Blitzkrieg
Definition
"Lightening warfare" Germany's tactic
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Louis XIV
Definition
"Sun King" Responsible for edict of knots. (Religious freedom)
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Mengele
Definition
Angel of Death. Performed experiments on children, dwarfs, undesirables in concentration camps.
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Marie Antoinette
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Arrested for treason to France. Married Louis XVI
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Catherine the Great
Definition
Attempted to modernize Russia by adding schools, agriculture, mining. Vaccine for smallpox.
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Luddites
Definition
Came about during the Industrial Revolution. Against machines in factories and destroyed them.
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Darwin
Definition
Evolution. Survival of the fittest.
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Marx
Definition
Father of communism. Communist manifesto
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Galileo
Definition
Father of modern science. Catholic church condemned him
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Dreyfus
Definition
French captain. Jewish, charged for treason, executed. Charged for anti-seminism. Wrongfully charged
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Voltaire
Definition
French enlightenment philosophe. Attacked church/religion
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National Assembly
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French. Created by 3rd estate. Fighting for position. Didn't like the voting order.
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Treaty of Versailles
Definition
Germany charged for damages done in WWI, pay reparations.
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Lebensraum
Definition
Hitler's plan for living space
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Himmler
Definition
Hitler's second hand man. In charge of concentration camps during the Holocaust. In charge of the SS as well
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Final Solution
Definition
Hitlers plan for the extermination of Jews. Came up with the solution at the Wannsee conference.
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Nuremberg Laws
Definition
ID you as a jew, whether you are jewish or not. Stripped you of your civil liberties
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Metternich
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In charge of congress of Vienna.
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Arkwright
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Invented the water frame spinning machine
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Bismarck
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Iron chancellor. Master of real politik
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Mussolini
Definition
Italian fascist leader after WWI
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Black Hand
Definition
Killed Arch Duke Franze Ferdinand. Terrorist group
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Nicholas II
Definition
Last czar of Russia. Executed by Bolsheviks
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Lenin
Definition
Leader of the Bolshevik party in Russia
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Robespierre
Definition
Leader of the committee of public safety. Over saw the reign of terror. (Killed people who didn't agree with how the revolution was going, enemies of it.)
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Queen Victoria
Definition
Longest female monarch or Europe. "grandmother of europe"
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Adam Smith
Definition
Moral Philosopher, political economist, "Wealth of Nations"
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Fredrick the Great
Definition
Most enlightened ruler. Perfect Model
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Sans Culottes
Definition
Part of the working class (3rd estate). They wore pants, not knickers.
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Philosophes
Definition
People in the enlightenment period who were intellectuals. Wanted to apply scientific reasoning.
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Mozart
Definition
Pianist. Best known classical composer. Over 600 pieces wrote. Real name is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Hindenburg
Definition
President of German republic, appointed Hitler
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Hitler
Definition
Ruler of the Nazi party. Came up with the Final Solution. Wanted perfect Aryan race.
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Congress of Vienna
Definition
Settled the issues after Napoleon's defeat. Which country rules what land.
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Bloody Sunday
Definition
Signaled the revolution of 1905 in Russia. A massacre
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Napoleon
Definition
Supreme ruler of France. Defeated at Waterloo
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Peter the Great
Definition
Tried to bring Russia, western civ. Tried to get them to adopt western fashion. Tried to modernize Russia. Opened warm waterport.
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Glorious Revolution
Definition
Wife Mary, sailed into port, bloodless revolution, overthrowing James II
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Diderot
Definition
Wrote 28 volume encyclopedia of enlightened thoughts
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Einstein
Definition
Wrote the theory of relativity
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