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20336816industrializationThe growing or birth of production0
20336817Monroe DoctrineThe proclamation that prevented European nations from colonizing in the Americas1
20336818Opium WarThe war that led Western imperialism in China2
20336819Social DarwinismThe belief that one achieves more than others by genetic or biological superiority3
20336820nationalismDevotion to the culture of a nation4
20346459Factory systemA method of manufacturing adopted in England during the Industrial Revolution.5
20346460Meiji RestorationA change in political control of Japan whereby the emperor regained his political power.6
20346461pogromsMeaning "wreaking of havoc" in Russian, this was a massive violent attack on a particular ethnic or religious group with simultaneous destruction of their environment.7
20346462Congress of ViennaEuropean meeting after Napoleon's defeat to try and restore political stability and settle diplomatic disputes8
20346463zaibatsuHuge industrial combines created in Japan in the 1890s as part of the process of industrialization9
20346464radicalA person who believe in the democratic movement that called for liberalism and extended personal rights and freedoms10
20346465Toussaint L'Ouverturea leader of the Haitian revolt against France11
20346466caudillosmilitary juntas or governments12
20346467Miguel HidalgoCreole priest in Mexico who led rebellion against Spain13
20346468Sino-Japanese Warwar fought between China and Japan over Korea from 1894 to 189514
20346469Simon BolivarCreole military leader who fought for Colombian independence between 1817 and 182215
20346470DumaSomething like parliament but has no real power, every time they tried to make change, czar disbanded them.16
20346471CreolesPeople of Iberian Peninsular descent who were born in Latin America17
20346472LiberalA person willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own..18
20346473ConservativeA person not changing or innovating, holding on to traditional values.19
20346474Crimean Wara war between Russia and a group of nations including England, France, Turkey and Sardinia from1853 to185620
20346475Tokugawa ShogunateFamily of warlords who seized control of Japan in 1600s.21
20346476DietParliamentary legislative body that had no real power in Japan.22
20346477SocialismIdea that economic competition is inherently unfair and leads to injustice/inequality23
20346478CommunismA forced idea of socialism that is ideally perfect with regards to justice and social equality24
20346479RomanticismMost important - emotion/passion, more self expression, Self-realization of the individual, heroism, love of the natural world25
20346480Taping RebellionRebellion initiated by Hong Xiuquan to overthrow the Manchurians and establish the kingdom of Heaven in China..26
20346481Boxer RebellionViolent movement against non-Chinese commercial, political, religious and technological influence in China during the final years of the 19th century.27
20346482Boer WarThe name given to the South African Wars of 1880-1 and 1899-1902, that were fought between the British and the descendants of the Dutch settlers (Boers) in Africa.28
20346483Suez Canala ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea29
20346484Socialist RevolutionA proletarian revolt inspired by the ideas of Karl Marx30
20346485Proto-industrializationPreliminary shift away from an agricultural economy31
20346486Feminist MovementSought legal and democratic gains for women such as equal access to education, right to vote, professions in workplace32
20346487Triple AllianceAlliance between Germany, Austri-Hungary and Italy at end of 19th century33
20346488Triple EntenteAgreement between Britain, Russia, and France in 190734
20346489partitiona division of property among joint owners or tenants in common or a sale of such property followed by a division of the proceeds35
20346490Benito JuarezIndian lawyer and politician who led a liberal revolution against Santa Ana36
20346491Profirio DiazA general in Juarez' army who was elected as president of Mixico and ruled for 35 years37
20346492tropical dependenciesWestern European possessions in Africa, Asia, and South Pacific where small number of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations38
20346493gunboat diplomacydiplomatic relations involving the use or threat of military force39
20346494Modernization Theorysummarize modern transformations of social life40
20346495Ottoman Society for Union and Progressa secret circle of liberal-minded students in the imperial military medical school in Constantinople (now Istanbul) who aspired to overthrow the autocratic regime of Sultan Abdülhamit II.41
20346496Holy AllianceAlliance between Russia, Prussia and Austria to defend the established order.42
20346497AnarchistsPolitical group that sought the absolution of formal government as a way of creating a better society.43
20346498BolsheviksMost radical group of the Russian Marxists movement44
20346499democracyA form of government that represents the people45
20346500IntelligentisiaRussian term for articulate intellectuals as a class46
20346501Trans-Siberian RailroadConnected European Russia with the Pacific Ocean47
20346502radicalismdemocratic movement that called for liberalism and extended rights48

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