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Chapter Twenty-8 ?World War II? The Road to War Several factors need to be understood concerning the events leading to World War II. Dissatisfaction with the Versailles Treaty. Pacifism of the democratic states of England and France. The USSR was distrustful of Germany, Italy, and Japan but due to the weakness of Anglo-French relations, Stalin enter an agreement with Hitler in 1939. The Course of Events Using a Franco-Soviet agreement of the preceding year as an excuse, Hitler, on March 7, 1936 repudiated the Locarno agreements and reoccupied the Rhineland. The Treaty of Versailles had demilitarized the Rhineland. Neither France nor Britain was willing to oppose this moves. The Spanish Civil War

French Revolution

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French Revolution Study guide French revolution ? 1789 began French Society Highest population in Western Europe, and growing 1770 ? population predominantly ruled (lived in country side, rural) Most French peasants owned some land France was self-sufficient for food Supposed to be a good thing They were not industrializing At least not at the same speed as Britain and Prussia. Divided into 3 classes ? estates Division between those estates was rigid Defined by modern standards The Catholic Church 1% of the population 1789 ? there were 10000 officials in France (at the time of the revolution) Very rich Above the level of priests, bishops, cardinals etc. 9999 were from noble families It means the nobility and the church were practically the same thing

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French Revolution Study guide French revolution ? 1789 began French Society Highest population in Western Europe, and growing 1770 ? population predominantly ruled (lived in country side, rural) Most French peasants owned some land France was self-sufficient for food Supposed to be a good thing They were not industrializing At least not at the same speed as Britain and Prussia. Divided into 3 classes ? estates Division between those estates was rigid Defined by modern standards The Catholic Church 1% of the population 1789 ? there were 10000 officials in France (at the time of the revolution) Very rich Above the level of priests, bishops, cardinals etc. 9999 were from noble families It means the nobility and the church were practically the same thing

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French Revolution Study guide French revolution ? 1789 began French Society Highest population in Western Europe, and growing 1770 ? population predominantly ruled (lived in country side, rural) Most French peasants owned some land France was self-sufficient for food Supposed to be a good thing They were not industrializing At least not at the same speed as Britain and Prussia. Divided into 3 classes ? estates Division between those estates was rigid Defined by modern standards The Catholic Church 1% of the population 1789 ? there were 10000 officials in France (at the time of the revolution) Very rich Above the level of priests, bishops, cardinals etc. 9999 were from noble families It means the nobility and the church were practically the same thing

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Sally Wu 3/13/10 Roads to War Government spending on what people called the arms race had started European economies. Competing Alliances and Clashing Ambitions The Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy vs. France and Russia (1890). Constant rivals in Africa, Britain, and France edged to the brink of war in 1898 over competing claims to Fashoda, a town in the Sudan. They entered into secret agreements, the first which recognized British claims in Egypt and French claims in Morocco. This agreement marked the British-French alliance called the Entente Cordiale. Germany?s Imperial Demands

Enlightened Absolutism

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Enlightened Absolutism Prussia ? Frederick II (Frederick the Great, r. 1740-1786) Enlightenment Policies Freedom of religion/philosophy Improved education Modernized legal system/agriculture/manufacturing (1763) Absolutist Policies Oppressed Jews Retained Serfdom Expanded Junker nobility privileges Russia ? Catherine the Great (r. 1762-1796) Enlightenment Policies Embraced Western Culture at Court Religious toleration Improved education ? schools for daughters of nobility Absolutist Policies Nobility granted absolute control over serfs (1775) Nobility freed from taxes/state service (1785) Austrian Hapsburgs ? Joseph II (r. 1780-1790) Religious toleration and civic rights for Jews/Protestants Abolished serfdom (1781) Freedom of the press

Notes pg 629-638 Palmer

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Adamm Norgren 20 March 2011 Euro Notes Pg 629-638 Europe?s World Supremacy 1871-1914 Economic, political, and cultural institutions of Europe spread around the world after 1870 Largest empires in Europe gained global empires With the rise of the US came the term Western, but the modernization of japan made it kind of inappropriate Creation of Third world as well Had no specific geographic entity Rep. developing countries, allusion to third estate Terms represented efforst to deal with a new reality, mainly a bifurcation between modern and traditional socities, rich and poor, strong and weak All countries were drawn into a world economy and a world market Attributes of political and economic modernity were the same almost everywhere

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