World History Exam

Front 1

War of attrition

Back 1

A war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses.

Front 2

mobilization

Back 2

The process of assembling troops and supplies for war.

Front 3

Central Powers

Back 3

Germany, Austria-Hungary,Bulgaria, & Ottoman Empire

Front 4

David Lloyd George

Back 4

Prime Minister of great Britain

Front 5

Trench Warfare

Back 5

Fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire,as in WW1.

Front 6

Archduke Francis Ferdinand

Back 6

The heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary .

Front 7

Grigori Rasputin

Back 7

An uneducated Siberian peasant who claimed to be a Siberian man

Front 8

Self-Determination

Back 8

Determination of one's own fate

Front 9

League of Nations

Back 9

An organization founded by Wilson to prevent future wars, at the Paris peace confrence

Front 10

Leon Trotsky

Back 10

A Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist

Front 11

Isolationism

Back 11

To stay out of affairs of Europe

Front 12

Potsdam conference

Back 12

After Roosevelt died: Truman wanted free elections through east Europe & Stalin refused

Front 13

Anti-Comintern pact

Back 13

Germany and Japan signed the pact promising a common front against Communism

Front 14

D-Day

Back 14

June 6,1944; When the Allies landed on the Normandy beaches (GREATEST NAVAL INVASION)

Front 15

Allied Powers

Back 15

Soviet Union & United Kingdom

Front 16

Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact

Back 16

Germany and the Soviet union signed the pact promising not to attack each other

Front 17

Tehran concert

Back 17

November 1943; when the Soviet Union, The United states, & Great Britain, came together to decide to decide the future of the war.

Front 18

Blitzkrieg

Back 18

His Blitzkrieg or "Lightning power", used armorer columns, called Panzer divisions, supported by airplanes

Front 19

kamikaze

Back 19

Japanese for "Divine wind", a suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots intentionally flew their airplanes into U.S. fight ships at sea

Front 20

Final Solution

Back 20

Genocide, Physical extermination of the Jewish people

Front 21

Amerigo Vespucci

Back 21

An Italian, explorer, financer, navigator, and cartographer

Front 22

Moluccas

Back 22

Spice Islands, The islands were visited by the Portuguese in c.1512 and thereafter colonized by them; they established a trading center at Ternate. In the 17th cent. they were taken by the Dutch, who secured a monopoly in the clove trade

Front 23

Portuguese

Back 23

the Portuguese Renaissance was largely separate from other European Renaissances and instead was incredibly important in opening Europe to the unknown and bringing a more worldly view to those European Renaissances, as at the time the Portuguese Empire spanned the globe.

Front 24

Vasco da Gamma

Back 24

Portuguese Explorer, commander of the 1st ships to sail directly from Europe to India

Front 25

Sugarcane Plantations

Back 25

Very Valuable and salves worked there

Front 26

Christopher Columbus

Back 26

An Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. Born in the Republic of Genoa(Italy)

Front 27

Ibo

Back 27

Society of Eastern Nigeria

Front 28

Triangular trade

Back 28

A pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, Asia, and the American Continents. Typically, manufactured goods from Europe were sent to Africa, where they were exchanged for slaves, who were sent to the Americas, were they exchanged for raw materials that were sent to Europe.

Front 29

Dutch

Back 29

The Netherlands

Front 30

New Netherlands

Back 30

Dutch

Front 31

France

Back 31

France, officially the French Republic, is a sovereign country in Western Europe that includes several overseas regions and territories.

Front 32

Voltaire

Back 32

A Parisian, who wrote endless pamphlets, novels,plays, letters, essays, and histories. Well known for his criticism of Christianity and his strong belief in religious tolerance

Front 33

Nicholas Copernicus

Back 33

Native of Poland, published his famous book ' On the revolutions of the the heavenly spheres'. He was also a mathematician, he believed in the Heliocentric.

Front 34

George Fredrick Handel

Back 34

a German-born Baroque composer famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.

Front 35

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Back 35

Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological, and educational thought.

Front 36

Francis Bacon

Back 36

was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England.

Front 37

Constitution of the United States of America

Back 37

created a federal system in which power would be shared between the national government and the state governments

Front 38

Treaty of Paris 1763

Back 38

The Treaty of Paris of Feb. 10, 1763, was signed by Great Britain, France, and Spain, it terminated the Seven Years War.

Front 39

Isaac Newton

Back 39

English physicist and mathematician who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution

Front 40

John Locke

Back 40

English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism"

Front 41

Romanticism

Back 41

An intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the 18th century in reaction to the ideas of the enlightenment, it stressed feelings, emotions and imaginations

Front 42

nationalism

Back 42

the unique cultural identity of people based on common language, religion, and national symbol

Front 43

Cottage industry

Back 43

A method of production in which tasks are done by individuals in their rural homes

Front 44

Charles Darwin

Back 44

English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.

Front 45

industrial Capitalism

Back 45

an economic system based on industrial production or manufacturing

Front 46

concert of Europe

Back 46

also known as the Congress System after the Congress of Vienna, was the balance of power that existed in Europe from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the outbreak of World War I

Front 47

Gustave Courbet

Back 47

French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists.

Front 48

Henry Cort

Back 48

English ironmaster. During the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron using innovative production systems. In 1783 he patented the puddling process for refining iron ore.

Front 49

Realpolitik

Back 49

politics or diplomacy based primarily on power and on practical and material factors and considerations, rather than explicit ideological notions or moral or ethical premises. In this respect, it shares aspects of its philosophical approach with those of realism and pragmatism. The term Realpolitik is sometimes used pejoratively to imply politics that are coercive, amoral, or Machiavellian.

Front 50

Congress of Vienna

Back 50

conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September 1814 to June 1815.