French revolution; Napoleon Bonaparte, Radicals, Liberals; Industrial Revolution; Camillo de Cavour; Triple Alliance; Triple Entente; Reign of Terror; Romanticism; Socialism; Nationalism; Reform Bill of 1832; Karl Marx; Conservative; Feminist Movement; Otto Von Bismark
54654177 | French revolution | the revolution that began in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799. | 0 | |
54654178 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Overthrew French Directory in 1799 and became emperor of the French in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile. | 1 | |
54654179 | Radicals | people who favored drastic change to extend democracy to all people | 2 | |
54654180 | Liberals | people who believed people should be as free from restraint as possible | 3 | |
54654181 | Industrial Revolution | the change from an agricultural to an industrial society and from home manufacturing to factory production, especially the one that took place in England from about 1750 to about 1850. | 4 | |
54654182 | Camillo de Cavour | Italian who believed in a diplomatic process for bringing Italy together | 5 | |
54654183 | Triple Alliance | Alliance between Germany, Italy, Austria Hungry | 6 | |
54654184 | Triple Entente | An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI. | 7 | |
54654185 | Reign of Terror | the historic period (1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed | 8 | |
54654186 | Romanticism | a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization | 9 | |
54654187 | Socialism | a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. | 10 | |
54654188 | Nationalism | the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals | 11 | |
54654189 | Reform Bill of 1832 | profound significance-House of Commons had emerged as all-important legislative body-House of Lords could always be brought into line by threat of creating new peers-number of voters increased by 50%, 12% of adult men in Britain and Ireland right to vote | 12 | |
54654190 | Karl Marx | German philosopher, economist, and revolutionary. With the help and support of Friedrich Engels he wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894). These works explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form the basis of all communist theory, and have had a profound influence on the social sciences. | 13 | |
54654191 | Conservative | a person who believes government power, particularly in the economy, should be limited in order to maximize individual freedom | 14 | |
54654192 | Feminist Movement | Sought various legal and economic gains for women, including equal access to professions and higher education; came to concentrate on right to vote; won support particularly from middle-class women; active in Western Europe at the end of the 19th century; revived in light of other issues in the 1960s. | 15 | |
54654193 | Otto Von Bismark | Prussian Diplomat responsible for the unification of Germany. Cunning politician, fights Danes with Austrians and Germans. Expels Austrians from Zollverein, fights Austrian-Prussian war w/ help of Germans. Gets North Germkan Confederation, led by Prussia. Then fights French, Franco-Prussian war, gets rest of Germany and Alsace-Lorraine. Diplomat under William I of Prussia, and then Wiliam II, who makes the mistake of firing him. | 16 |