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Name for the law with which the german government suspended its constitution, allowing Adolf Hitler to seize power |
Enabling Act |
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Fencing in of lands by 18th century British landlords attempting to privatize agriculture |
Enclosure Movement |
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Name for arrangement in which american banks loaned money to Germany in order to stop the hyper-inflation of the 1920s |
The Dawes Plan |
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Name of the man who was the founder of the fascist movement and became a leader of Italy from 1922-1943 |
Benito Mussolini |
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Name for Germany, once it became a democracy under a new government established in 1919 |
Weimar Republic |
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President of the second republic of FranceLater became emperor of the Franco Prussian War |
Napoleon III |
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Name of the Habsburg emperor of the Austrian Empire from 1848 to 1916
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Franz Joseph |
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Name of the agreement that ended Russia's participation in WWI, giving a large mass of Russian Territory to Germany |
Treaty of Brest Litovsk |
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Name for the followers of Lenin's idea that a communist revolution was possible in Russia if directed by an elite revolutionary leadership |
Bolshevik |
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Name for uprising of Indian Solider's against the British East India company in 1857 |
Sepoy Rebellion |
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Name of the Russian Tsar who signed the law that freed the serfs in 1861 |
Alexander II |
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Name of the agreement ending WWI, signed by Germany. It included a "war-guilt clause" in which Germany was entirely blamed for war |
Treaty of Versailles |
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What was decided at the Berlin Conference held in 1884? |
the rules for european control of Africa |
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Most immigrants leaving Europe between 1860 and 1914 came from? |
non industrialization nations |
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All the following were goals of the Meiji government: |
centralize political power modernize the Japanese economy stabilize govt revenues (they didn't want to give more influence more samurai) |
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The Boxer Rebellion of 1900 |
revealed the weakness & instability of the Chinese government |
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Who were the Boers? |
Dutch settlers in South Africa |
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In the 19th century Ottoman Empire, Tanzimat was? |
a period of western style reforms and religion tolerance |
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Gandhi suggested all the following: |
indian civilians should boycott british salt south africa should reform its legal code indian peasants should refuse to pay taxes |
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After WWI, the mandate system: |
gave independence to those nations who follow terms set by the League of Nations?? |
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The RussianRevolution began in March 1917 because? |
strikes and riots in Petrograd were growing, sparked by inadequate food supplies |
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Mao Zedong Believed: |
Chinese communism should utilize the potential of the rural peasantry |
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Soviets were: |
Councils of workers and soldiers |
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The Syrian Congress that met in 1919 and 1920 aimed to : |
Achieve political independence for Arab nationalists |
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Name of the Leader of the Republic of Turkey after WWI who passed many modernizing reforms |
Attaturk |
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Name for an attempting uprising by liberal Russian army officers in the first half of the 19th century |
Decembrist Revolt |
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Name for the political structure following WWI in which the middle eastern countries came under administrative control of either Britain or France |
Mandate System |
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Post WWI international Organization founded to promote peace and international relations |
League of Nations |
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Name for the Agreement reached between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League, signed in 1916 |
Lucknow Pact |
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Name of the program in which the united states provided resources and manufactured goods to Britain, 1941-1945 |
Lend Lease Act |
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Industrial Revolution |
Great Britain; efficiency maximizes resources, globalization, and transportation |
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Separate Spheres |
domestic (feminine) vs. Public (Masculine) |
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Spinning Jenny |
power spinner 1767 |
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Thomas Malthus |
enlightenment thinker, though about population boom Price increase - food price up and wages down Price decrease - Food price drops wages up |
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Capitalism |
boom & Bust boom everyone does the same thing and expand bust cut back & layouts, anti-immigration |
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French Revolution |
ended the thousand-year rule of kings in France and established the nation as a republic. The revolution began in 1789, after King Louis xvi had convened the French parliament to deal with an enormous national debt. |
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Congress of Vienna |
balance "the concert of Europe" redistributed land (Russia takes poland, netherlands, and belgium combined ) |
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Enlightenment |
Philosophical movement Reason (only no things based on reason) Nature (nature makes sense and holds answers) |
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Dual Revolution |
Industrial Revolution and Democratic Revolution |
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Holy Alliance |
Prussia, Russia, and Austria vowed to squash revolution everywhere |
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Manifest Destiny |
expansion of land, god ordained to grow |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
freed slaves in the south, sharecropping, system keeps racial segregation |
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Germ Theory |
Fear of Germs feeds in class and ethnic tension |
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Congress of Modernity (Fin de Siecle) |
end of the century in france anxiety |
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anti semitism |
against the jews |
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Zionism (Theodore Hertz) |
says jews should go back to ottoman empires palestine |
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mass politics |
appeals to masses irrational and emotional |
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Anarchism |
any order or system of rules, controls and oppresses |
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Social Darwinism |
strong and weak in society Eugenics - quality of population matters Degeneration |
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autonomy |
self rule |
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Civilizing mission |
help less evolved people who can't govern themselves |
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Boer War |
british burn farms and put people in concentration camps |
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apartheid system |
Boers are in charge of society / important |
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Indian National Congress |
political party, nationalist group goals autonomy and equality |
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Taiping Rebellion |
Xiuquan thinks he's jesus' brother wants utopian society 20 million people die |
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Self Strengthening movement (China) |
to modernize, traditional society resists |
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Boxer Rebellion |
chinese secret society, attacks westerners |
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chinese nationalist who played a key role in overthrowing the qing dynasty |
Sun Yatsen |
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Gun Boat Diplomacy |
us guns boats fire near japan tells japan to open up port or else |
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Tanzimat Reforms (ottoman Empire) |
try to reform, open up economy, religious equality |
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Origin of WWI |
de-stabilizing nationalism ( Assasination of Fran Ferdinand) |
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A political ideology that wished to maintain the traditional order of the old regime |
Conservatism |
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Political theory in which the "end justifies the means" espoused by Bismarck |
Realpolitik |
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Degeneration |
A theory that argues it was possible to de evolve and society would get worst if weak and unfit people reproduce |
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Political Scandal that divided france in the 1890s over the issue of religion and french nationalism |
Dreyfus Affairs |
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A marxist term for the middle class |
Bourgeoise |
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Term for the american belief that the us had a special mission to expand westward and colonize new territories |
Manifest Destiny |
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Commander of ottoman army who governed and instituted reforms in egypt |
muhammad ali |
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An attempted uprising by liberal russian army officers in the first half of the 19th century |
decembrist revolt |
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Term for naval tactics used by the us to make japan open its foreign policy |
Gunboat diplomacy |
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President of the second republic of france. Later became emperor until the franco prussian war |
Napoleon III |
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British businessman who was a champion go imperialism in south africa |
Cecil Rhodes |
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A working class movement for the expansion of political rights in mid 19th century britain |
Chartism |
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Habsburg emperor of the austrian empire from 1848 to 1916 |
Fran Joseph I |
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Political Philosopher who wrote leviathan, in support of the theory of absolutism |
Thoma Hobbs |
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Uprising of Indian Soliders against the english east indian company in 1857 |
Sepoy Rebellion |
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People of European decent born in spanish colonies |
creoles |
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Conservative Coalition formed by austria prussia and russia following the napoleonic wars |
holy alliance |
