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What are three estates that created French social divisions leading up to the French Revolution ? |
Clergy) priest and church officials Nobles) privaleged people. Example - being exempt from taxes. Common people) just people |
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What did the American and French revolutions have in common? |
Issues of taxation sparked violent revolutions for democracy and freedom. |
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Besides the American and French revolutions, where els did revolutionary ideals spread ? |
The Spanish and Portuguese colonial systems in Latin America |
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What did Simon Bolivar, Jose De San Martin, and Toussaint L' Overture, want to accomplish for their countrues |
Independence |
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What did the declaration of the rights of man and citesens proclaim ? |
Government should rule on the consent of the people. |
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Who was the brutal head of the Committee of Public Safty? |
Robespier |
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What did the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) hope to achieve? |
A balance of power |
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What happened to the middle class during the Industrial revolution? |
They grew more power full. With a new Capitol they increased the economy, promoted buisneses, inventions, and the freeenterprice system. |
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What was the Bastille used for? |
A royal prison |
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What did Marx and Engles predict would happen to the workers! |
They (the poor) would grow poorer as the rich got richer untill they would eventually rise up in a violent revolution. |
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What type of approach did Adam Smith beleive the government should take concerning the economy? |
Free enterprice system |
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Why was James Watt invention so innovative? |
His upgrade to the steam engine allowed factories to be built anywhere. Before factories could only be built on or next to rivers. This increased economy as factories that bring jobs were now everywhere. |
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What did pastures discovery help scientist to understand |
France, Louis Pasteur discovered that microbes were responsible for souring alcohol and came up with the process of pasteurization, where bacteria is destroyed by heating beverages and then allowing them to cool. His work in germ theory also led him and his team to create vaccinations for anthrax and rabies. |
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The Second Industrial Revolution introduced what kind of technological inventions |
Phonograph, light bulb, motion pictures, and ect... |
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Who were the proletariats? |
The workers |
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Why did Marx and Engles urge Communist to unite? |
To rebel against Capitolists |
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What were working conditions like during the industrial revolution? |
Men, Women, and Children worked hard labor, for long hours, for little pay, and were often in unsafe working envirements, and phisically abused. |
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What kind of reforms brought about better working conditions during the industrial revolution? |
Social reforms.
Parliment feared the middle class would start a violent uprising, so they increased the middle classes pay and working conditions. |
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What type of economic system did Adam Smith favor? |
Free enterprice system |
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Which British social class did not contribute to the efforts of the industrial revolution? |
Nobles |
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What were the New Imperialists looking for in South Africa |
To preserve balance of power and natural recources |
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What were Social Darwinists' fundamental beliefs? |
The idea that some societies were more successful because of their culture. |
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What economic motavation did European Imperialist hope to achieve by colonizing Africa? |
Raw materials needed for factories |
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Why were fewer workers needed on farms during the industrial revolution ? |
Advances in agricultural technology, meant less people were needed on farms, as one machine could do the work of ten men in a fraction of the time and cost. |
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What was so revolutionary about the Spinning Jenny? |
It allowed the middle class to afford clothes, by lowering the cost of fabric. A Spinning Jenni was more efficient and just better at making fabric that any human. |
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What new innovative inventions usher Ed in the second industrial revolution? |
Electricity, phonograph, and motion pictures to name a few. |
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What was the purpose of the League of Nations? |
To promote disarment and prevent war. |
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What historical event ignited world war one. |
Arch duke Franzs Ferdinand of Austria assasinated by the Black Hand of Serbia. That was Serbia vs Austria, but Russia has treaties to defend Serbia. And Germany had treaties to defend Austria. So then it was Russia vs germany. |
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What did the Bolsheviks promise in return for the peoples' support? |
Peace and Bread and Land |
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Who were the Bolsheviks? |
Vladimir Lennins supporters |
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How did the Germans react to the Treaty of Versailles? |
They thought it was very harsh |
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What event caused Americans to join the war effort in World War One? |
German U-boats attacked american supply ships. the first attacked was named (lucantia). These ships were sending supplies to the allied forces. |
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What strength did the British have that allowed them to defeat the Chinese easily during the opium wars? |
The British had advanced military technologies. For example gun ships. |
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Which American president led diplomatic efforts during World War One? |
Wildrow |
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What countries made up the allies in World War One? |
Serbia, Belgium, Italy, Romania, Greece, and Portugal |
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What kind of government was the Weimar Republic? |
German Democratic republic |
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What did Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin control within their countries as a means to gain their people's support? |
Media, and secret police (gestapos were the secret police for Hitler ) |
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Why did the League of Nations fail? |
Member States refused to take action. |
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What did Japan, Germany, and Italy rely on to achieve their goals? |
Totalitarian governments |
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What are satellite states? |
Eastern Europe countries under influence of Soviet union. Or a country that is formally independent but contrived by an other country politically or economically or forcfully. |
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What kind of government did fascist believe in? |
Totalitarian, the same thing as fascism |
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What miricle did Hitler preform that made them believe so blindly in his leadership? |
He restored Europes economic properity. |
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What is the significance of December seventh, nineteen fourty one(12-7-1941)? |
Japans attack on Pearl Harbor launched the United States into World War Two. |
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What was the Halocaust? |
Hitlers genocide attempt towards Jews. RIP 6 million Jews. |
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What are "crimes against humanity"? |
Genocide, starvation, human guinea pigs |
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What two factors brought about The Great Drepression? |
Stock market crash, and realistate over speculation. |
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Who was Britain's prime minister during World War Two? |
Winston churchhil |
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What did Japan lack during their industrial revolution? |
Raw materials |
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Why did totalitarian governments take hold during World War Two. |
People were looking for an alternative government that could help them. They were hungry and homeless from the war and were desperate. |
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What was the problem with how countries in Africa were divided following their independence? |
Borders were set by the colonial borders from Germany, not the tribal borders of the people who lived there. |
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What was Mao's five-year plan? |
To rebuild china back into an industrial power. His plan not only failed, but it destroyed the economy. He spent all the government's money buying industrial machines and over taxed the citizens of china. Millions of people couldn't afford food and starved to death. |
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What method of protest did Mohandas Ganndhi advocate for? |
Non violence, passive resistance. |
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Who was HH Chi Minh? |
Nationalist leader of Communist North Vietnam |
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How did Mikhail Gorbachev bring bring about the fall of communism? |
Made reforms from Communist to democracy |
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What is the purpose of NATO |
To Protect Western Europe from Communist agression. |
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What did Mao Zedong do to wealthy land owners? |
He killed all of them. RIP 1 milion. |
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Why in 1947 did India did use into two desperate nations? |
Muslim minority feared discrimination from hindu majority in India, and decided to make their own nation (pakistan). |
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What was apartheid? |
Racial segregation |
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Who was Nelson Mandela? |
President of Africa who ended apartheid. |
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Where did the CIA trained Cuban exiled invade? |
(Bay of pigs) in cuba |
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What did Gorbachev hope to achieve by introducing Glasnost and Perestroika? |
Personal liberties and freedoms |
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What did the Hutu-led regime hope to achieve in Rwanda? |
Exterminate the Tutsi minority |
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What occured in 1948 that caused the Israelis and Palestinians to be in continuous conflict until this day? |
Israelis became a nation (isreal)by stealing the palestinians land. Palistinians only have these small areas-gaza strip-west bank. Both feel land is rightfully theirs, that's why they fight. |
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How did the Iranian revolution of 1979 lead to the growth of Islamic fundamentalism? |
Ayagollah Khomeini began a movement of extreme fundamentalism which doesn't tolerate Western values. |
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What happened to Armenian Twirls and Muslim Serbs that are considered crimes against humanity? |
Both groups were murdered |
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Who was awarded the noble peace prize, and devoted her life to helping the poor and homeless of India? |
Mother Teresa |
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How has globalization changed manufacturing? |
Jobs and services are now shipped to other countries who do them cheaper. (out sourcing ) |
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What was an ongoing problem in places like Rwanda, Darfur, and Kosovo during the late 20th century? |
Ethnic cleansing(genocide), and civil wars. |
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How does the United States classify the Taliban? |
Extreme Islamic fundamentalist or terrorist group |
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What was the United Nations Charter? |
The charter wants to establish world peace. End world hunger and ignoance. |
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Protests group Solidarity, and protestors at Tiananmen Square hoped to achieve what kind of changes for their country? |
Greater personal freedoms and democracy |
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Which countries have comited genocide during the late 20th century? |
Rwanda, and Burundi |
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What was the reason behind the September 11 2001 attacks on America by Al' Qaeda? |
He was angered by presence of United States troops in Saudi Arabia. |
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What do Israelis and Palestinians fundamentally disagree upon? |
Both groups believe that the land they occupy is rightfully their homeland. |
