328647623 | Industrialization | the development of industry on an extensive scale | 0 | |
328647624 | Dual Alliance | Pact between Germany and Austria, each promising to come to the other's aid if attacked by Russia and to minimally remain neutral if the other was attacked by another country | 1 | |
328647625 | Theodore Roosevelt | 26th President of the United States | 2 | |
328647626 | Russo- Japanese War | Russia and Japan were fighting over Korea, Manchuria, etc. Began in 1904, but neither side could gain a clear advantage and win. Both sent reps to Portsmouth, NH where TR mediated Treaty of New Hampshire in 1905. TR won the nobel peace prize for his efforts, the 1st pres. to do so. | 3 | |
328647627 | Three Emperors League | The 1873 alliance between Germany, Austria, and Russia. | 4 | |
328647628 | Serfs | a person who lived on and farmed a lords land in feudal times | 5 | |
328647629 | Tsar Alexander I | he mediated the peace between Britain and the US in the War of 1812 | 6 | |
328647630 | British Empire | formerly the United Kingdom and all the territories under its control | 7 | |
328647631 | Duma | Russian national legislature | 8 | |
328647632 | October Manifesto | Issued in Russia because of fear of a general strike. Granted full civil rights and a popular parliament- Duma. | 9 | |
328647633 | Potemkin | Naval ship in Black Sea participated in the uprising of 1905 | 10 | |
328647634 | Cossacks | free groups and outlaw armies of peasants who fled the tzar and service nobility | 11 | |
328647635 | Treaty of Portsmouth | 1905 treaty between Russia and Japan ending the Russo-Japanese War | 12 | |
328647636 | Economy | an act of economizing | 13 | |
328647637 | Hierarchy | the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body | 14 | |
328647638 | Nicholas II | the last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution | 15 | |
328647639 | Hemophilia | congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding | 16 | |
328647640 | Tsar | a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) | 17 | |
328647641 | First Moroccan Crisis | Germany tries to stop France from getting Morroco (Brinksmanship), turns all the other countries against it | 18 | |
328647642 | Franco Russian Alliance | early 1894- was to remain in effect as long as the Triple Alliance existed- result=continental Europe was divided into two rival alliances | 19 |
Chap. 27 Vocab Flashcards
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