71025766 | Olympe de Gouges | revolutionary in advocating womens' rights | 0 | |
71025767 | John Locke | English philosopher who formulated the theory of contractile government | 1 | |
71025768 | Voltaire | philosopher: issues of freedom and equality; resented religious persecution and censorship | 2 | |
71025769 | Rousseau | advocated political equality, wrote the social contract, French-Swiss thinker | 3 | |
71025770 | King Louis XVI | French king; had to raise taxes - 3 estates | 4 | |
71025771 | Bastille | Prison that was destroyed in a revolt | 5 | |
71025772 | The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | made by National Assembly. Equality and sovereignty | 6 | |
71025773 | Marie Antoinette | wife of Louis; hated because of her extravagance | 7 | |
71025774 | Robespierre | radical Jacobin who dominated the convention; ruthless, "the incorruptible" | 8 | |
71025775 | Napolean Bonaparte | Military leader; supporter of the revolution and defended the directory | 9 | |
71025776 | Saint-Domingue | in Haiti; really rich; revolution here | 10 | |
71025777 | Toussaint Louverture | called himself the opening; black; son of slave; helped many slaves | 11 | |
71025778 | Simon Bolivar | the liberator South American creole elite | 12 | |
71025779 | Olaudah Equiano | ex-slave; led slave revolt | 13 | |
71025780 | William Wilberforce | major in helping end slavery; English philanthropist | 14 | |
71025781 | Mary Wollstonecraft | British writer; A Vindication of the Rights of Women | 15 | |
71025782 | Mary Astell | English writer: absolute sovereignty better in family than in the state | 16 | |
71025783 | Industrialization | transformed AG SOMETHING and SOMETHIG centered economies distinguished by industry | 17 | |
71025784 | James Watt | steam engine 1765, burned coal | 18 | |
71025785 | Adam Smith | SOMETHING to describe new systems of factory | 19 | |
71025786 | Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin | 20 | |
71025787 | John D. Rockefeller | monopoly | 21 | |
71025788 | Karl Marx | German Theorist; social problems were the result of capitalist economy | 22 | |
71025789 | Robert Owen | Utopian socialists worked to establish ideal communities that would point th3e way to an equitable society | 23 | |
71025790 | Capitulations | Document containing the terms of surrender; an agreement | 24 | |
71025791 | Mahmud II | SOMETHING killed all but him; SOMETING cousin became sultan | 25 | |
71025792 | Young Turks | most active dissident organization ottoman society for union and progress promoted reform | 26 | |
71025793 | Nicholas II | reigned after Alexander died championed oppression and police control SOMETHING | 27 | |
71025794 | Revolution of 1905 | Russian military defeats brought to SOMETHING political and SOMETHING | 28 | |
71025795 | Opium War | outraged by Chinese against opium, British pressed government to reopen trade; captured coastal forts, destruction of Chinese war fleets | 29 | |
71025796 | Unequal Treaties | Treaty of Nanjng SOMETING | 30 | |
71025797 | Taiping Rebellion | worst of the rebellions; China brought Quing to an end; turmoil from foreign intrusion | 31 | |
71025798 | Cixi | ruthless and powerful empress dowager concubine | 32 | |
71025799 | Boxer Rebellion | worked to rid China of "foreign devils" and their influence wanted by Cixi SOMETHING Christians and those related to foreigners | 33 | |
71025800 | The Self-Strengthening Movement | sought to blend Chinese culture with European industrial techonology | 34 | |
71025801 | Matthew Perry | went into Tokyo and demanded that they open a port to trade with | 35 | |
71025802 | Meiji Restoration | returned authority to Emperor; brought end to military government; reform and rebirth in China | 36 | |
71025803 | Imperialism | when another bigger country takes over a smaller, weaker country and controls them and gets profit off taxation | 37 | |
71026938 | Great Game | military offices ad imperialist adventures engaged in a risky pursuit of influences | 38 | |
71026939 | Scramble for Africa | frenzied quest for Empire European Imperialists went and took colonies | 39 | |
71026940 | King Leopold II | employed Henry Morgan Stanley to commercial venture and est. Congo Free State SOMETHING | 40 | |
71055309 | Great Trek | great migration of people in south africa to north africa, because they were unhappy with British rule that had been imposed at the Cape. | 41 | |
71055310 | Boer war | tensions between Britain and Africa becuase of British mining gold in africa | 42 | |
71055311 | Berlin Conference | when rulers of european nations agreed to colonize africa and decided how they were going to divide Africas land so they wouldn't fight amongst themselves. | 43 | |
71085886 | Direct Rule | French colonial rule in Africa, Its aim was to remove and replace strong kings. It was meant to keep African populations in check. | 44 | |
71085887 | Indirect rule | British colonial rule in Africa controlling subject populations through indigenous institutions. | 45 | |
71085888 | Monroe Doctrine | a proclamation that warned European states against imperialist designs in the western hemisphere, and served as a justification for later U.S. intervention in hemispheric affairs. | 46 | |
71085889 | Archduke Francis Ferdinand | heir to Austro-Hungarian empire - his assassination was the catalyst for WWI | 47 | |
71085890 | allies | (Triple Entente)- Britain, France, Russia- countries at war with the central powers during WWI | 48 | |
71085891 | central powers | (Triple Alliance)- Germany, Austria- Hungary, Italy- counrtries at war with the allies during WWI | 49 | |
71085892 | schlieffen plan | German strategy during WWI that would avoid a war on two fronts. It called for a swift knockout of France, followed by defensive action against Russia. | 50 | |
71085893 | western front | WWI front located in Belgium and France, many trenches- battle lines remained virtually stationary during WWI | 51 | |
71085894 | stalemate | a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | 52 | |
71085895 | trench warfare | Fighting with trenches, mines, and barbed wire. Horrible living conditions, great slaughter, no gains, stalemate, used in WWI. | 53 | |
71085896 | eastern front | in World War I, the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks. | 54 | |
71085897 | total war | a war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields. | 55 | |
71085898 | propaganda | the restriction of civil liberties, censorship of bad news, and vilification of the enemy | 56 | |
71085899 | twenty-one demands | ultimatum that, if accepted, would reduce China to a protectorate of Japan. | 57 | |
71085900 | Lenin | revolutionary Marxist and Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) | 58 | |
71085901 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | treaty in which Russia lost territory to the Germans. This ended Russian participation in the war. | 59 | |
71085902 | Woodrow Wilson | U.S. President, who led USA into WWI. | 60 | |
71085903 | Influenza Pandemic of 1918 | disease that killed more than 20 million people. the first documented outbreak occurred in Sapin in late 1918. | 61 | |
71085904 | fourteen points | a proposal from President Wilson for a just and enduring postwar peace settlement. | 62 | |
71085905 | treaty of Versailles | treaty that denied the Germans a navy and an air force and limited the size of the German army to 100,000 troops. | 63 | |
71085906 | League of Nations | the first permanent international security oranization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. | 64 | |
71085907 | self-determination | the idea that peoples with the same ethnic origins, language, and political ideals had the right to form sovereign states | 65 | |
71085908 | mandate system | a division of colonial booty by the victors, who had conveniently forgotten to apply the tutelage provision to their own colonies. | 66 | |
71085909 | Adolf Hitler | This dictator was the leader of the Nazi Party. He believed that strong leadership was required to save Germanic society, which was at risk due to Jewish, socialist, democratic, and liberal forces. | 67 | |
71085910 | Freud | medical doctor from Vienna who embarked on research that focused on psychological rather than physiological explanations of mental disorders. | 68 | |
71099154 | Great Depression | the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s | 69 | |
71099155 | New Deal | Roosevelt's program of sweeping economic and social reforms after the Great Depression | 70 | |
71099156 | FDR | U.S. president- started the "New Deal" program | 71 | |
71099157 | Bolshevik Party | socialist/marxist party in soviet union under Lenin | 72 | |
71099158 | War Communism | in World War I Russia, government control of banks and most industries, the seizing of grain from peasants, and the centralization of state administration under Communist control | 73 | |
71099159 | New Economic Policy | policy implemented by Lenin, which temporarily restored the market economy and some private enterprise in Russia. | 74 | |
71099160 | Joseph Stalin | Communist statesman; leader of Bolshevik Party; became ruler of USSR after Lenin; assumed full military and political leadership. | 75 | |
71099161 | Five Year Plan | Stalin's replacement for Lenin's NEP.the basic aims were to transform the SU from a predominantly agricultural country to a leading industrial power. | 76 | |
71099162 | collectivization | Josef Stalin initiated this process, arguing that a "grain crisis" (peasant withholding of grain) could effectively limit the pace of Soviet industrialization. | 77 | |
71099163 | Great Purge | Beginning in 1934, Stalin's plan to eliminate all opposition to his Communist government. | 78 | |
71099164 | Fascism | a political movement and ideology that sought to create a new type of society, devloped as a reaction against liberal democracy and the spread of socialism and comunism. | 79 | |
71099165 | Mussolini | the guiding force behind Italian fascism , Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945) | 80 | |
71099166 | Nazis | German political party joined by Adolf Hitler, emphasizing nationalism, racism, and war. they became the only legal party and an instrument of Hitler's absolute rule. The party's formal name was National Socialist German Workers' Party. | 81 | |
71099167 | Ghandi | one of the most remarkable and charismatic leaders of the 20th century., spiritual leader of India who used civil disobedience to expose the British mistreatment and to seek equality for Indians in India | 82 | |
71099168 | Ali Jinnah | an eloquent and brilliant lawyer who headed the Muslim League,. He proposed two states in place of India, one of which would be the "land of the pure" or Pakistan. | 83 | |
71099169 | Sun Yatsen | a leading opponent of the old regime, he proclaimed a Chinese republic in 1912 and briefly assumed the office of president in China | 84 | |
71099170 | Mao Zedong | Early member of the Chinese communist party, who viewed a Marxist-inspired social revolution as the cure for China's problems. | 85 | |
71099171 | Jiang Jieshi | a young general who had been trained in Japan and the Soviet Union. After the leadership of Guomindang fell to him, he launched a political and military offensive, that aimed to unify the nation and bring China under Guomindang rule. | 86 | |
71099172 | Jomo Kenyatta | African nationalist who led Kenya to independence from the British. | 87 | |
71100530 | Marcus Garvey | Jamican nationalist leader | 88 |
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