Who/What: Inventor of the speed regulator for the steam engine

When/Where: 1736, Scottland

Significance: advancement of technology and power generation, helped the industrialization movement

Who/What: group of workers who protested against machines

When/Where: 1811-1816, Britain

Significance: masked luddites destroy machinary, enjoyed popular support. Movement dies when 14 were hung. hated industrialization because of the fatalities it caused and the gruesome work hours

Who/What: advances Realpolitik 'politics of reality'

When/Where: 1815-1898, Germany

Significance: uses war with neighbors to unify Germany, since many wars ahve broken out Bismarck uses the wars to unite germany by spreading the sense of nationalism through tremendous wins in war

Who/What: socialist who built 'Utopian'

When/Where: 1771, Europe

Significance: raised their workers wages and housed them. Lowered work hours & NO children. Built school for workers children. claimed that the workers would be more productive in this setting

Who/What: appointed finance minister by Tsar Alexander III to help Russia's struggling economy

When/Where: 1892, Russia

Significance: constructed huge railway network across Siberia, said to just give out jobs so the workers will have money to spend, therefore the businesses will be making money, paying employees etc

Who/What: south african war between the british and dutch as a result of the poor treatment of the natives

When/Where: 1899, South Africa

Significance: white-white conflict, native soldiers and laborers. As a result boer was promised self government with british supervision

Who/What: 'hero of two worlds'

When/Where: 1807, Italy

Significance: helps unify Italy under King Vittore Emmanuele II

Who/What: war between british and chinese over ending opium trading

When/Where: 1839, Europe

Significance: british agents engage in military retaliation, british naval forces easily defeats Chinese. ends in a series of unequal treaties and causes the boxer rebellion

Who/What: major corperations who baught government holdings

When/Where: 1870, Japan

Significance: financial cliques develop, considered benificial to society

Who/What: in favor of greater Siberian autonomy

When/Where: 1863-1914, Austria

Significance: assassinated by Gavrilo Princip

Who/What: plan for france to be defeated swiftly, then attention to be focused on russia. Fear of encirclement

When/Where: 1914, Germany

Significance: plan failed, but similar tactic was used to defeat france in 1940

Treaty of Versailles

Who/What: limits german military and demands war reparations from central powers

When/Where: 1919, Peace Conference in Europe

Significance: high levels of resentment, Hitler later uses this to unify germany and bring NAZI's to power

Who/What: battle between germany and france

When/Where: 1916, France

Significance: resulted in more then 250,000 deaths, disastrous as a whole

Who/What: Stalin applies socialist ideas to agriculture

When/Where: 1932, Soviet Union

Significance: many peasants died from starvation, not having enough to eat because government had taken their crops and they were resisting the government by burning crops and killing livestock

Who/What: said to stimulate economy by lowering interest rates and SPEND MONEY. Encouraged investment and employment

When/Where: 1883, US

Significance: radical ideas had major impact on modern economic and political thought. told government to give jobs to everyone, stimulate economy. even if job is pointless

Who/What: created by Franklin Roosevelt to rescue the US from the great depression

When/Where: 1930's, US

Significance: by the end of the 1930's, US had mass mobilization of labor movements, and an organized agricultural economy

Who/What: bolsheviks vs. mensheviks

When/Where: 1902, Russia

Significance: dual government is formed, bolshevicks were communists and the menshevicks for the 'mainstream' liberal opposition

Who/What: radical movement, assasinates Tsar Aleksandr II. Tried to give land back to peasants

When/Where: 1881, Russia

Significance: prompted widespread pogrom attacks on jews. Increased repression

Who/What: economic policiy adopted by bolsheviks during the russian civil war

When/Where: 1918, Russia

Significance: blueprint for stalinism in the 1930's. government controlled EVERYTHING

Who/What: 'lightning war' strategy

When/Where: 1941, Germany

Significance: air forces soften up target, armored divisions rush in. very powerful fighting technique

Who/What: plan proposed to reconstruct western europe

When/Where: 1947, made in US

Significance: united nations formed to resolve international disputes. US spends more then 13 billion dollars to help Europe

Who/What: turning point in operation barbossa

When/Where: 1941, Russia

Significance: germans supply lines greatly damaged during winter, hitler forced to retreat. Red army gains offensive

Who/What: first prime minister of India

When/Where: 1889, India

Significance: said to put aside religious views, india comes first. NO alliances, model for newly independent countries. Raised mariage age, gave women rights to divorce and get money from the divorce