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31 Cards in this Set
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Continental System
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An economic warfare plan by Napoleon to defeat Great Britain by destroying its trade. He order conquered European countries to stop trading with England AND he blocked English ships from unloading their imports at European ports that he controlled.
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Yasir Arafat
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Leader of the PLO wanted self determination for palestinians
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Interchangeable parts
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A system created by Eli Whitney that increased factory production. System involved machine-made parts that were exactly alike, easily assembled or exchanged.
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Maximillian Robespierre
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was the mastermind of the reign of terror and the leader of the committee of public safety
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Reign of Terror
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Lasted from July 1793-July 1794 in France. Involved the Jacobins who wanted to crush all opposition within France. During Terror, neighborhood watch committees hunted suspected traitors -- many innocent people sentenced because of false statements. Jacobin-controlled Committee of Public Safety also set up "Republic of Virtue" -- a democratic republic made up of good citizens -- opened schools, helped train farmers, abolished slavery, etc.
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Scorched Earth Policy
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The Russian strategy of burning everything in their path in order to stop Napolean from using any of the resources against.
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14 points
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President wilson's proposal in 1918 for a postwar European peace and wilson lists his goals for a war-free world
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Alliance System
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A group of countries would join together to resist and/or defeat opposing/threatening countries. An example is in WW I - The Three Emperor's League - Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia joined to isolate France.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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He was a general in the French Revolution, who first crushed an uprising against the Directory (Council of Directors). He later was part of a coup d'etat, (a quick seizure of power) against the Directory and named himself Emperor in 1804. He set up a dictatorship, tried to restore order, and changed laws -- Napoleonic Code -- placed the state above the individual, and limed freedoms of speech, of press, and of women. He built a European empire, but was finally defeated in the Battle of Waterloo, where he died.
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Frederick Taylor
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He encouraged manufacturers to divide tasks into detailed and specific segments of step-by-step procedures, which led to division of labor. Each worker performed a specialized task on a product as it moved on a conveyer belt -- The assembly line
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Ho Chi Mihn
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Communist leader of North Vietnam. Two sides went to war. US feared the communist and wanting to supportthe ally,france
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Eli Whitney
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in the 1800's he invented the cotton gin and contributed to the concept of interchangeable parts that increased factory production
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Fundametalism
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the adherence to traditional values
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Deism
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Religious philosophy of the 1700's based on reason and the idea of natural law -- universal moral law that could be understood by applying reason. It also believed in hte rightness of humanity's place in an orderly universe, and denounced organized religion as superstitous
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Genocide
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The deliberate, carefully planned killing of an entire people on the basis of race, politics or culture. (like Jews, gays, Bosnians, etc.)
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Zimmerman Telegram
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Foreign minister Zimmermann asks mexico to join Germany in exchange for return of south west U.S.
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Adolf Hitler
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Born in Austria, joined the Nazi party after WW I, and blamed the Jews and Communist for the German defeat in WWI. Declared Germans Master Race who were destined to rule the world. Voted into power and then took absolute control and began a campaign of genocide called the Holocast. He basically was the cause of WWII
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London Blitz
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A series of night time air raids on London by the Germans. (57 nights in a row -- one night the Luftwaffe dropped 70,000 fire bombs)
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league of nations
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International organization formed after WWI that aimed to ensure the security and peace for all its members
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Natural Rights
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Theory by John Locke. Rights belonging to all humans from birth -- life, liberty, and property.
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John Locke
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English philosopher--believed government was based on a social contract, and necessary to establish order. He believe that people are basically reasonable and moral and that they have natural rights of life, liberty and property. He believed that people created government to protect their natural rights, but if the government failed to protect those right then the people had the right to overthrow the government.
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tinanmen square
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Dend Xiopeng refused to grant political freedoms. June 1989 100,000 rallied in bejing tinamen square. government sent in tanks and sodiers several demonstators were killed. US and other countries condemned the use of force
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apartheid
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Racial seperation based on color of skin in South Africa.
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Mao Zedong
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Chinese communist leader who promoted equality of people. established Great leap forward. built new economy and changed china into a modern and agricultural nation.
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west bank
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Area inhabited by palestinians in Israeli-held land from the 6-day war
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schlieffen plan
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Germany's plan they developed to avoid fighting both the french and russian armies at the same time
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great leap forward
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Plan where Chinese cooperatives were merged to produce goods. the GLF stressed human labor over technology. Members of the communes worked in production. working in brigades. two years later: Disaster starvation, mismanagement and peseant resistance occured.
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vietcong
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fought guerilla style against South vietnamese.
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6-day war
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Israeli forces feared Egypt and syria joining forces against them . and so the israelis took controll of the Saini Penninsula, Gaza strip and the Golan heights.
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philosophes
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During the enlightenment their were new ideas coming out these were called philosophes
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The domestic system
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was a system of labor where hired workers would produce woolens in their own homes
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