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42 Cards in this Set
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James Watt
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Scottish, inventor and steam engine
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Joseph Lister
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English, promoted surgical sterilization
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Maximilien Robespierre & Georges Jacques Danton
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French revolutionaries of the 3rd estate (working class)-- lawyers--loved by the people--great public speakers.
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Louis XVI
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French monarch from 1774-1792--executed by national assembly--married to marie antoinette
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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1804-1814
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Congress of Vienna
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1814-1815--reestablished national boundaries--reestablished old order--first continental congress where delegates met face to face
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methodism
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heavy missionary revival to convert "the heathen"--John Wesley (advocated personal relationships with God)
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pietism
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evengelicalism--promoted enthusiasm in worship--priesthood of all believers
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romanticism and nationalism
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1770s-1840s--emotional exuberance, spontaneity in art and life--nature--inspired national self determination--popular in England and German states
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Otto Von Bismark
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1871-1890--United German states--thought the best way to unite was through war--"the iron chancellor"--realpolitik--ruled with emperor Wilhelm I (wilhelm the great)
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klemens wenzel metternich
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foreign minister of the Austrian empire--major contributor in congress of vienna--resigned and fled vienna in 1848 during revolutions
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treaty of frankfurt
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ended franco-prussian war
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louis philippe
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french monarch prior to and during revolutions of 1848
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reform act of 1832
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England--increased voting size by 80%--still only 1 in 6 adult males could vote
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franco-prussian war
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1870-1871--heavy victory for prussia--decided by battle of sedan in which napoleon III and whole army was captured
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Jeremy Bentham
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English philosopher--believed that public problems should be solved through practical, scientific measures--provide greatest good for greatest numbers--supported by edwin chadwick who said that disease caused poverty, not vice versa
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Robert Koch
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german physician--isolated tuberculosis bacteria
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Louis Pasteur
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french chemist--developed pasteurization
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Baron Haussmann
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in charge of rebuilding the center of paris--wanted to turn it into a "jewel"--haussmannization
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bon marche department store
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first in the world--designed to tempt consumers--mainly women
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Ernst Renan
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French writer--What is a Nation--defined nation as a place where people want to live together--a place where people have done great things together, and want to do more
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Camillo Cavour
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Italian polititian--good negotiator--leader in italian unification--prime minister of piedmont-sardinia--united north of Italy--implemented liberal reforms
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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united south of Italy through war
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Victor Emmanuel II
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King of united Italy in 1861
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Berlin Conference
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14 foreign ministers meet to discuss partition of Africa
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J.A. Hobson
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British economist--imperialism does not benefit a country as a whole, only a few rich people
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Liberia and Ethiopia
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Only independent african countries
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Franz Fanon
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Author form Martinique, a french island in the carribean--wrote Wretched of the earth--inspired decolonization
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Franz Ferdinand
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Archduke of Austria-Este--assassinated by serbians of the black hand in 1914--sparked WWI
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Treaty of Versailles
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signed in 1919--ended war between Germany and allied powers--named germany solely responsible for the war--germany had to pay reparations--germany lost all colonies--czechoslovakia and poland created
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HMS Dreadnought
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revolutionary british warship
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Flapper
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the "new" woman--wore short skirts, listened to jazz--behaved "inappropriately"
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benito mussolini
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1922-1943--italian prime minister--fascist
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Josef Goebbels
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propaganda minister of nazi germany
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NATO
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north atlantic treaty organization--military alliance--headquarters in brussels--28 states
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Warsaw Pact
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military alliance formed by 8 communist states in eastern europe in response to NATO
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Joseph Stalin
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1922-1953--leader of the soviet union after the death of Lenin--rapid industrialization--non-aggression pact with nazis, then joined allied powers when nazis broke pact in 1941--created "iron curtain" after war
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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1933-1945--New Deal--established social security
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Harry Truman
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1945-1953--did not recognize any state that was not freely elected--Truman doctrine (containment)--
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Marshall Plan
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proposed by George Marshall--rebuild economies of wester european nations
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korean war
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1950-1953--between republic of korea(supported by united nations) and people's republic of korea (supported by communist china and USSR)--first armed conflict of the cold war
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winston churchill
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1940-1945,1951-1955--Prime minister of England--coined "iron curtain"
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