Global Midterm

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absolute monarchy

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A monarch who has total control over the government and the lives of the people he/she rules

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limited monarchy

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A monarch whose power is limited by a constitution or legislative body.

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the Bastille

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A fortress and a prison. When Parisians stormed it in 1789 it began the revolution.

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estates

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social class/classes

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coup d'etat

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forcible overthrow of government

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ancien regime

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old order of government in pre-revolution France

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guerilla warfare

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fighting using hit and run tactics

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scorched-earth policy

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soliders destroy everything in their path to hurt the enemy

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Estates - General

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The legislative branch of the French government

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plebiscite

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Ballot in which voters have a direct say on an issue

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deficit spending

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When a government spends more money than it is taking in.

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peninsulares

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In Latin America highest social class

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creole

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A person in Latin America whose ancestors were of Spanish descent.

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Toussaint L'Ouverture

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self educated that was once a slave, leader of the revolution

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mestizo

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A person that is European and Native American

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Father Miguel Hidalgo

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priest that began the Mexican Revolution

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Father Jose Morelos

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priest that controlled most of Mexico during the Mexican Revolution

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mulatto

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a person that is European and African

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Dom Pedro

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Became Brazil's 1st emperor after granting independence

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Símon Bolívar

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Freed much of northern South America (the Liberator)

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Jose de San Martín

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Freed much of southern South America

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agustin de iturbide

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Led Mexico to independence from Spain, was Mexico's 1st president, then declared himself emperor

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Zollverein

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pre-unification German economic union

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reparations

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payments for war damage/costs

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Ems Dispatch

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Bismarck rewrote the report of a meeting between France and Prussia making it seem like Prussia's King William called Napolean 3rd of France a liar. This caused the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.

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annex

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to add territory to an existing nation or territory

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kaiser

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Emperor of Germany

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Reich

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German for Empire

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Young Italy

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A secret Italian nationalist group

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Risorgimento

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Italian nationalism/ "awakening"

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Realpolitik

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realistic politics based on the needs of the state

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nationalism

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pride in and loyalty to one's nation

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chancellor

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highest official of a monarch ( Germany )

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emigration

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movement to anotehr country from home land

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The White Man's Burden

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the duty of superior nations to control and influence lesser nations

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imperialism

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the domination of 1 coutry by another

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Social Darwinism

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belief that certain raecs and nations are supieror while others are inferior

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colonization

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the process of establishing colonies

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nationalism

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A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country

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racism

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the belief that one race is supieror to the other.

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colony

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the set up and establishment of a place by people from another land

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Gavrilo Princip

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Was a member of Unity or Death (the Black Hand) and I assasinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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heir to throne of Austria - Hungary my assassination was the immediate cause of WW1

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Kaiser William 2

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My new course and blank check were major causes of WW1

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neutrality

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the policy of not supporting either side in a war

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alliance

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A formal agreement between 2 or more nations to cooperate with and defend one another

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Blank - Check

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Germany's unconditional support of Austria - Hungary

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mobilize

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to prepare military forces for war

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ultimatum

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Final set of demands

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the New Course

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Germany's hash militaristic foreign policy began by Kaiser William the 2nd

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macadam roads

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permanent, all - weather roads

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entrepreneur

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the person that manages and assumes the financial risk of starting a new business

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industrialization

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a process of developing machine made goods

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Industrial Revolution

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Period between 1750 - 1850 of greatly increased production of machine - made goods

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Enclosure

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When wealthy landowners buy open fields, fence them in, then rent them to tenant farmers (or evict them)

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Factory System

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The production of goods that were made rapidly by machines at a factory. Resulted in mass production.

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Cottage/ Domestic System

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The production of goods that were slowly made in homes by hand.

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urbanization

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the movement of people from rural areas to cities.

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czar

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russian emperor

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soviet

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council of workers and soliders set up by Russian Revolutionaries in 1917

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Duma

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elected national legislature in Russia

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proletariat

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working class

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Cheka

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early soviet police force

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totalitarian state

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governmnet in which a one party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens lives

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provisional

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temporary