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122 Cards in this Set
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Congress of Vienna
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-Tried to restore monarchies in Europe.
-Pretended that liberal ideas hadn't occured |
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Consequences of Industrial Revolution
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-Family structure changed along with daily life schedule
-child labor -masses of people moved into cities causing urbanization |
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Class System
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-Growth of middle class changed the fact that wealth, not family, was the basis of power
-bourgeoisie (capitalists) vs. proletariat (workers) |
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Imperialism
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competition for goods and resources
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transportation
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expansion of the RR, steamship, Suez Canal and Panama Canal
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Conservatism
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-wanted to maintain traditions of the past and allow changes to occur only gradually
-didn't allow serious freedoms to mess up government like press and speech |
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Conservatives
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-in control of all major governments in Europe
-authors of these policies were the foreign ministers of Austria and France |
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Foreign Ministers of Austria and France who started ideas of Conservatism
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Klemsn Von Metternich and Charles de Tallyrand
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Monroe Doctrine
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-stated that any foreign invasion anywhere in the americas would be met with hostile resistance from the American military
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Liberalism
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-Power given to government through specific things written in constitutions
-wanted representative governments -separation of power -economics hands off of government unless promoting rights of mankinds |
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Socialism/ Marxism/ Communism
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-emphasized well being of collective society
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Friedrich Engles
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-wealthy man who ran a factory in England
worked with Marx to write Communist Manifesto and the Conditions of the Working Class in England |
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Marx
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-born and raised in Germany, interested in politics as a university student
-created Communism |
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Communist Manifesto
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-outlined history as a struggle b/w classes
-one class has always been exploited by another -ruling class needs to revolt, win the world and unite with the working men of all countries |
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Charles Dickens
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-wrote from middle class view of life
-directly attacked the social problems faced by the poor of his day such as child orphanages, and London Slums |
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Oliver Twist
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Written by Dickens about orphanages and London Slums
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Hard Times
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Written by Dickens about evils of industrialization and utilitarianism
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Bleak House
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Written by Dickens about unhealthy London weather from industrialization
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David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Christmas Carol
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Written by Dickens about single minded pursuit of money position
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Jane Austin
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criticized english manners and class consciousness in her books
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Pride and Prejudice & Emma
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written by Jane Austin
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Bronte Sisters
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Charlotte and Emily
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Jane Eyre
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written by Charlotte Bronte about roles of women in male society
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Wuthering Heights
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writeen by Emily Bronte about roles of women in male society
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Utilitarianism
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What makes most people happy is what should be done.
-every institution and law should me measured according to its usefulness in society |
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Jeremy Bentham
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-British philosopher who developed Utiliarianism
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Social Usefulness
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-that which produces the greatest happiness for the greatest amount of people (utilitarianism)
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Calculus of Felicity
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-method by Bentham to rate decision making:
1. Intensity 2. Duration 3. Certainity 4. Propinquity (how soon will the benfit be seen) 5. Fecundity (how many more benefits follow) 6. Purity 7. Extent |
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American Authors
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-rugged american individualism
-american frontier -glories of the american wilderness |
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Washington Irving
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wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer
-romantic hero in american setting -tradition with tales of sailors and the sea |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Wrote the Scarlet Letter about moral contradictions of puritan society
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Herman Melville
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wrote Moby Dick
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Edgar Allen Poe
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-survived through tragic childhood
-wrote The Tell Tale Heart, Murder in the Rue Morgue, Fall of the House of Usher, Cask of Amontillado, and the Pit and the Pendulum |
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Walt Whitman
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wrote Leaves of Grass
-collection of poetry that range in topic |
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Mark Twain
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wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
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Louisa May Alcott
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wrote Little Women
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Transcendentalism
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-a belief that some knowledge could be gained beyond what we get from the five senses
-nature is a source of joy and learning -man must set high standards of behavior that reject materialism |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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-leader of transcendental movement, mister at Harvard
-wrote treatise Self Reliance that people should trust themselves |
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Henry David Thoreau
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-transcendental movement, believed in Emerson and moved in with him, helped write some of his books
-wanted to live transcendentalism so he moved to Walden Pond and was alone with nature for two years and wrote his book Walden -also wrote On Civil Disobedience |
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Eli Whitney
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Cotton Gin and Interchangeable parts
-made it able for guns to be be replicated over and over again exact size |
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Benjamin Franklin
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-Renaissance Man of our time (politics and Inventions)
-Poor Richard's Almanac -scientist about comets and hurricanes -step ladder, rocking chair with fan, lock for door, stove |
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Samuel Morse
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Morse code and telegraph
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Thomas Edison
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inventor of light, motion pictures, battery, phone and developed other products
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Robert Fulton
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Steam Boat
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Elias Howe
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Sewing Machine
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Edwin Drake
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Oil Wells
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Rockefelller
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Standard Oil
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Slam
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General Motors
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Harriman
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NY Central Railroad
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Dmititry Mendeleev
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Periodic table of elements, put them in order with columns
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Louis Pasteur
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-"Father of Modern Medicine"
-Germ Theory of Disease disproved spontaneous Generation -Fermentation, Pasteurization, Chicken Cholera -Vaccines, experiment with chickens, development of rabies vaccine -creativity could be used by working on problems and achieving them with new insights |
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Darwin
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-brought together concepts from many diverse fields to solve a problem in biology
-transformed bio. sciences with theory of evolution -geologist |
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On The Origin of Species of Means of Natural Selection
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by Darwin about micro evolution
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The Decent of Man
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by Darwin about macro evolution
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The Butterfly Effect
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-by Edward Lorenz
-idea that very small changes can drastically affect results -butterfly flapping wings could cause a tornado -cause and effect relationship may not always be reliable |
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Chaos Theory
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-random events in non-linear systems can still lead to patterns
-broad patterns happen in history but nothing ever repeats exactly |
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Heisenberg
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came up with the Uncertainity Principle which said that electrons and light could not be described exactly but cold be described generally by statistics
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Terry Warner
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Spiritual vs. Secular, maps and faith of Alma and Korihor
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Claude Monet
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-impressionism usually with water, light and and color
-painted outdoor scenes |
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Water Lilies, Japanese Bridge, and Two paintings of Cathedral at Rouen
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paintings by Monet
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impressionism
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-started in france
-small brush strokes -exploration of light and technique |
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Pierre Renoir
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-people in every day interaction
-clearer than Monet |
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Le Mouline de la Galette and Girls in St. Louis
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paintings by Pierre Renoir
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Edgar Degas
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Rehearsal of a Ballet on Stage
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George Seurat
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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
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Mary Cassatt
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mother and child
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Post Impressionism
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radical movement, rejected impressionism, had a phase of impressionism but moved on, cutting edge of painting concepts
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Van Gogh
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-swirly movements
-Starry Night -The Night Cafe -Sunflowers |
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Paul Cezanne
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View over Mount Sainte Victoire
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Paul Gaughin
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La Orana Maria
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Henri Matisse
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The Red Room
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Pablo Picasso
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Three Musicians
Gernica -Cubism |
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Abstract
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Mondrian
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Surrealism
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Dali
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Modern ARt
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Pollock
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August Rodin
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scupture
- the Burghers of Calais -the Thinker |
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Debussy
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Impressionist music
-Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fau |
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Maurice Ravel
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-Pavane for a Dead Princess
-Bolero |
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Jazz
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Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, George Gershwin
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Feodor Dostoevsky
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-wrote powerfully of meaning of life and death
-Crime and Punisment -The Brothers Karamazov |
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Henrik Isben
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A Doll's House
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Treaty of Versailles (ESSAY)
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-ended WWI
-Britain and France Forced Germany to pay for the war. which caused German to have serious inflation and bankruptcy -France wanted a buffer state b/w themselves and Germany so they took over some of their colonies -Germany didn't have resources to pay for the war b/c of lack of colonies -Germany felt justified to be in the war b/c they helped ally Austria -no clear loser in war, more like a stalemate so why was Germany punished? -unfair cause it wasn't on German soil -distrust and resentment towards Europe as a whole |
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What Ignited WWI?
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conflict in the baltic states
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Triple Alliance
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Germany, Austria, Italy
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Triple Entente
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Great Britain, France, Russia
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Russian Revolution
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German government sent Lenin to go into Russia, began Communist ideas and overtook the Czar and came into power
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League of Nations
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President Wilson of the U.S. insisted on creation of permanent international organization, blueprint for UN
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Arab Protectorates
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England and France were going to give Arabs independence b/c they were on the side of the alliance but instead they made them protectorates
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Lenin and Stalin
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Russia and USSR
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Hitler
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Mein Kampf
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Weimar Republic
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new government in Germany that was weak and didn't get the economy going so Hitler took advantage and got voted chansler of Nazi party
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Third Reich
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time when Hitler was in power
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Roaring Twenties
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decade in America known for booming economy and party atmosphere
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Black Friday
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October 28, 1929, stock market crash
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FDR
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-started the New Deal which took drastic steps to find a way to end the Depression
-accomplished sense of hope and confidence in the American people |
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Marcel Duchamp
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-Nude Descending a Staircase
-4th Dimensions (time) |
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Salvador Dali
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The Existence of Memory
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Wright
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Falling Water (i went there!)
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Axis
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Germany, Italy, Japan
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Allies
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Britain, France, U.S., Russia
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Dunkirk
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-Germans strike through the Low Countries along the North Sea
-British evacuation over English Channel -British Citizens with boats assist in evacuation -French soldiers hold off the Germans but they were an easy target |
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Why did Japan attack China and Eastern Asia?
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they wanted an empire
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Pearl Harbor
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December 7, 1941
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Marshall Plan
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-gave grants and loans to nations of Eastern Europe
-people didn't want crisis that happened to Germany after WWI -same offer given to Soviet Union, but they refused |
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Midway
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-turning point in the war b/c Japanese navy no longer had total control of the Pacific
-Japanese lost carriers and aircrafts |
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Atomic Bombs
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dropped on August 6, 1945, in Hiroshima and then August 9 in Nagasaki
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D-day
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Attacked Europe mainlands and got back France
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Battle of the Bulge
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Germans exerted their power but didn't work,
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Yalta Conference
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-allies came together where they saw that there was a deep and growing division between democratic and capitalist allies and the communist Soviet Union
-directly started the Cold War |
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Iron Curtain
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Berlin Wall
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NATO
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Alliance of countries arrayed against communism
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Warsaw Pact
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Led by the Soviet Union for Communism
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Hot Wars
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Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan
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Red Scare
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fear of communism spread through the U.S.
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The World is Flat
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Thomas L. Freidman
-world has been brought together and "flattened" |
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Ten Flatteners
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1. Berlin Wall
2. Netscaping- going public 3. Work Flow- software 4. Uploading 5. Outsourcing (globalization, getting things done 24 hours a day) 6. Off shoring 7. Supply Chaining (Walmart) 8. Insourcing (UPS expanding with Toshiba) 9. Informing (Internet) 10. The Steroid |
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Stages of Globalization
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1942-1820, 1820-2000, 2000 to now
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Insourcing
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1/10 flatteners that is expanding within a company such as UPS and Toshiba
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Outsourcing
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1/10 flatteners that is getting things done 24 hours a day and globalizing
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Forms of Energy
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Oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, biomass, solar
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Cool it
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Bjorn Lomborg
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