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| 375010435 | Napoleon Bonaparte | Rose within the French army during the wars of the French Revolution; eventually became general; led a coup that ended the French revolution; established French empire under his rule; defeated and disposed by 1815 lead a conquest of much of Europespread revolutionary ideals 1799 | 0 | |
| 375010436 | Congress of Vienna | Meeting in the aftermath of Napoleonic wars (1815) to restore political stability in Europe and settle diplomatic disputes | 1 | |
| 375010437 | social Darwinism | a theory that the darker the skin color the less advanced you were | 2 | |
| 375010438 | Liberal politics | Political viewpoint with origins in western Europe during the 19th century; stressed limited state interference in individual life, representation of propertied government; urged importance of constitutional rule and parliaments | 3 | |
| 375010439 | conservative politics | Political viewpoint with origins in western Europe during the 19th century; opposed revolutionary goals; advocated restoration of monarchy and defense of church | 4 | |
| 375010440 | radical politics | Political viewpoint with origins in western Europe during the 19th century ; advocated broader voting rights than liberals; in some cases advocated outright democracy; urged reforms in favor of the lower classes | 5 | |
| 375010441 | socialism | Political movement with origins in western Europe during the 19th century; urged an attack of private property in the name of equality ; wanted state control of means of production, end to capitalist exploitation of the working man | 6 | |
| 375010442 | Marxism | the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will untimately be superseded | 7 | |
| 375010443 | Otto Von Bismark | Conservative prime minister of Prussi;architect of german unification under Prussian king in 1870; utilized liberal reforms to attract support for conservative causes formed allies against France "Iron chancellor" | 8 | |
| 375010444 | Emmelie Pankhurst | (1858-1928) was typical of the more radical femenist leadership both in background and tactics. born to a reform-minded English middle-class family she was active in womens rights issues as was her husband eventually she turned more radical and formed a sufferage movement was rather violent and was arrested alot | 9 | |
| 375010445 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | A member of the women's right's movement in 1840. She was a mother of seven, and she shocked other feminists by advocating suffrage for women at the first Women's Right's Convention in Seneca, New York 1848. Stanton read a "Declaration of Sentiments" which declared "all men and women are created equal." | 10 | |
| 375010446 | Berlin Conference(1884-85) | european nations met in Berlin,Germany to divide africa among themselves africans were not invited | 11 | |
| 375010447 | Cecil Rhodes | British entrepreneur in south Africa around 1900;manipulated political situation in south Africa to gain entry resources of Boer republics;encouraged Boer War as a means of destroying Boer independence Dimond ind | 12 | |
| 375010448 | Dependency theory | A structuralist theory that offers a critique of the modernization model of development. Based on the idea that certain types of political and economic relations (especially colonialism) between countries and regions of the world have created arrangements that both control and limit the extent to which regions can develop. | 13 | |
| 375010449 | "White Man's Burden" | the idea that it is the responsibility of people of European descent to take care of people of other races due to their perceived superior culture, technology, government, etc. | 14 | |
| 375010450 | Opium War | Fought between the British and Qing China beginning in 1839; fought to protect British trade in Opium; resulted in resounding British victory, opening of Hong Kong as British port of trade | 15 | |
| 375010451 | Toussaint L'Ouverture | leader of slave rebellion on French sugar island St Dominquein 1791; led to creation of independent republic of Haiti in 1804 | 16 | |
| 375010452 | Simon Bolivar | Creole military officer in Northern South America; won series of victories in Venezuela, Columbia, and Ecuador between 1817 and 1822; military success led to creation of independent state of Gran Columbia | 17 | |
| 375010453 | Miguel de Hidalgo | Mexican Priest who established independence movement among American Indians and Mestizos in 1810;despite early victories, was captured and executed | 18 | |
| 375010454 | Monroe Doctrine | American Declaration stated in 1823; established that any attempt of a European country to colonize in the Americas would be considered an unfriendly act by the United States; supported by Great Britain as a means of opening Latin American trade together with the Roosevelt collolary added alot to the us informal empire | 19 | |
| 375010455 | Muhammad Ali (egypt) | • Egyptian ruler • Initiated set of modernizing reforms that sought to make Egypt competitive with the great powers • Special schools, advanced education, industry, and agriculture • Huge army | 20 | |
| 375010456 | Benito Juarez | Indian governor of state of Oaxaca in Mexico, leader of liberal rebellion against Santa Anna; liberal government defeated by French invention under Emperor Napoleon III of France an establishment of Mexican Empire under Maximilian; restored to power in 1867 until his death in 1872 | 21 | |
| 375010457 | Porfirio Diaz | One of Juarez's generals; elected president of Mexico in 1876; dominated Mexican politics for 35 years ; imposed strong central government rich get richer poor suffer | 22 | |
| 375010458 | Suez Canal | Built across Isthmus of Suez to connect Mediterranean see with the Red Sea in 186; financed by european investors; with increasing indebtedness of khedives, permitted intervention of British into egyptian politics to protect their investment | 23 | |
| 375010459 | Panama Canal | An aspect of American intervention in Latin America; resulted for United States support for a Panamanian Independence movement in return for a grant to exclusive rights to a canal across the Panama isthmau; provided short route between Atlantic and Pacific oceans; completed 1914 | 24 | |
| 375010460 | Taiping Rebellion | Broke out in south china in the 1850s and early 1860s; led by Hong Xiuquan, a semi-Christianiszed prophet; sought to overthrow Qing dynasty and Confucian basis of scholar-gentry | 25 | |
| 375010461 | Boxer Rebellion | Popular outburst in 1898 aimed at expelling foreigners form China; failed because of intervention of armies of Western powers in China; defeat of Chinese enhanced control by Europeans and the power of provincial officials | 26 | |
| 375010462 | Russo-Japanese War | War between Japan and Russia (1904-1905) over territory in Manchuria; Japan defeated the Russians, largely because of its naval power; Japan annexed Korea in 1910 as a result of military dominance | 27 | |
| 375010463 | Sino-Japanese War | War fought between Japan and Qing China between 1894 and 1895; resulted in Japanese victory; frustrated Japanese imperial aims because of Western insistence that Japan withdraw from Liadong peninsula | 28 | |
| 375010464 | Matthew Perry | American commodore who visited Edo bay with American fleet in 1853; insisted on opening ports to american trade on threat of naval bombardment; won rights for american trade with japan in 1854 | 29 | |
| 375010465 | Oda Nobunaga | japanese daimyo; first to make extensive use of firearms; in 1573 deposed last of Ashikaga shoguns; unified much of central honshu under his command; killed in 1582 | 30 | |
| 375010466 | Toytomi Hideyoshi | General under Nobunaga; succeeded as leading military power in central Japan; continued efforts to break power of daimyos; constructed a series of allainces that made hime military master of Japan in 1590; died in 1598 | 31 | |
| 375010467 | Tokugawa Leyasu | appointed shogun by emperor; laid down a 4 class system, people were restricted to only marry to members in the same class (warriors, farmers, artisans, merchants); closed off Japan for 250 years (except to Dutch and Chinese); later persecuted christians and forbade christianity (he wanted their own culture/religion); centralized government so all the power was in the hands of the shogun; he made it so that it was illegal to fight even if you were a samurai; domestic trade fourished because it was safer | 32 |
