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SOL World History II
Review for SOL WH II
Term | Definition |
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Renaissance | "rebirth" of Classical knowledge from Greece and Rome |
Erasmus | important humanist scholar who wrote "In Praise of Folly" criticizing the Catholic Church |
Shakespeare | English author who wrote plays, sonnets, and essays during the Renaissance |
Italian city-states | birthplace of the Renaissance |
North | direction in which the Renaissance spread first |
Leonardo Da Vinci | Italian Renaissance artist who painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper |
Michelangelo | Italian Renaissance artist who painted the Sistine Chapel |
Judaism | world's first major monotheistic religion |
Christianity | world's largest monotheistic religion; believe Jesus is the messiah |
Islam | world's fastest growing monotheistic religion; Muhammad is its prophet |
Torah | written records and beliefs of the Jews |
Ten Commandments | code of conduct for the Jews given from God to Moses |
New Testament | for Christians it is the written record of the life and teachings of Jesus |
Qu'ran/Koran | for Muslims it is the written teachings of Allah as revealed to the prophet Muhammad |
Five Pillars | rules or code of conduct for Muslims/of Islam |
Mecca and Medina | holy cities of Islam/for Muslims |
Hinduism | religion that has many forms of one god (monism) such as Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma |
reincarnation | rebirth based on karma; belief of both Hindus and Buddhists |
karma | knowledge that all thoughts and actions result in future consequences; belief of Hinduism and Buddhism related to reincarnation |
Buddhism | "religion" with no definitive "god" |
Siddhartha Gautama | founder of Buddhism; the "Buddha" or "Enlightened One" |
The Four Noble Truths | basic set of beliefs of Buddhists |
The Eightfold Path | guide for Buddhists to achieve Nirvana/Enlightenment |
Asoka | emperor who helped to spread Buddhism across India and Southeast Asia |
Silk Road | trade route from China to Europe |
Silk Road products and ideas from China | silk, porcelain, paper, and compass |
Tarns-Saharan Trade Route | North African trade route of the Songhai |
goods traded by the Songhai | gold and salt |
goods and ideas from the Ottoman Empire/Middle East | ceramic, coffee, Indian-Arabic numerals, medicine, astronomy, & mathematics |
goods from the Indian Ocean Trade Route | textiles, spices, & Indian-Arabic numerals |
Protestant Reformation | period where the power and religious authority of the Catholic Church was challenged |
Martin Luther | wrote the "95 Theses" launching the Protestant Reformation |
printing press | spread the knowledge of the Renaissance and ideas of the Protestant Reformation |
Johannes Gutenburg | created the European printing press |
Jan Huss and John Wycliffe | pre-Luther Protestant reformers |
usury | the Catholic Church's idea that charging interest was a sin;challenged by businessmen of the Reformation |
indlugences | Catholic Church's practice of selling "tickets" to heaven; a sign of Church corruption; challenged by Protestant reformers |
Martin Luther | founded first Protestant religion-Lutheranism |
Martin Luther | preached that the Bible was the only true source of God's word and salvation comes from faith alone |
predestination | belief that God has chosen who has been saved and damned since the creation of the world promoted by John Calvin |
John Calvin | expanded the Protestant movement, especially to Geneva, Switzerland |
King Henry VIII of England | dismissed the authority of the Catholic Church in Rome by creating the Church of England-the Anglican Church |
divorce | reason Henry VIII broke from Rome to create the Church of England/Anglican Church |
King Henry the VIII of England | appropriated the land and wealth of the Roman Catholic Church in England enriching the crown |
Queen Elizabeth I of England | perpetuated the Church of England/Anglican Church against the Popes wishes |
Spanish Armada | Spanish fleet defeated by England's navy in 1588/England most powerful navy in world |
Queen Elizabeth I of England | English monarch who expanded English colonies in Americas |
Peasants Revolt | revolt in Germany during the Protestant Reformation |
effect of Reformation on Germany/Holy Roman Empire | princes converted to Protestant ism so Catholic Church loses power |
Thirty Years War | war between Catholics and Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire |
Hapsburgs | ruling family of the Holy Roman Empire that supported Catholic Church during Reformation |
Cardinal Richileiu | politicized the Thirty Years War which had been religious war |
Counter/Catholic Reformation | Catholic Church's effort to reassert power of Catholic Church/combat Reformation |
Council of Trent | reaffirmed Catholic Church's teachings during Counter/Catholic Reformation |
Jesuits | order of monks founded to spread Catholic teachimgs during Catholic Reformation |
Ignatius of Loyola | founded the Jesuits |
Edict of Nantes | provided for religious toleration of Protestant French Huguenots temporarily during Reformation |
ideas resulting from Protestant Reformation | secularism, religious tolerance, and individualism |
divine right | belief king's/monarch's authority is granted by God-justification for absolutism |
Prince Henry the Navigator | sponsored school of navigation leading to Age of Exploration |
causes of the Age of Exploration | demand for spices, gold, natural resources and desire to spread Christianity |
Vasco De Gama | Portuguese explorer who was first to circumnavigate Africa to reach Asia |
Christopher Columbus | Spanish explorer who "discovered" America |
Hernando Cortez | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire |
Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire |
Ferdinand Magellan | Spanish explorer who was "first" to circumnavigate the world |
Sir Francis Drake | First Englishman to circumnavigate the world |
Jacques Cartier | Frenchman who explored the St. Lawrence River inland |
Africa | area where European established trading posts along the coast to trade for slaves and gold |
Asia | area colonized by small groups of merchants like East India Company |
Americas | areas where Europeans set up colonies to recreate European society |
sistema de castas | rigid social system set up by European settlers in Latin American colonies |
Columbian Exchange | the exchange of products and resources between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres |
basis of colonial economies in Americas | plantations and mining of precious metals |
mercantilism | economic trade policy used to enrich Europe at the expense of the colonies |
Middle Passage | the Atlantic Trade route used to forcibly transport African slaves to the Americas |
Triangular Trade | trade route connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas |
exported from colonies to mother countries | raw materials like precious metals and cash crops (ex: tobacco & sugar) |
sold by mother country to colonies and Africa | finished/manufactured goods |
Commercial Revolution | period during which mercantilism developed along with banking and insurance industries |
religion of Mughal India and Ottoman rulers | Islam |
city the Ottoman's renamed Istanbul | Constantinople |
area conquered by Mughals | Northern India |
area conquered by Ottomans | Anatolia Peninsula (Turkey), Balkans, Southwest Asia, & Northern Africa |
Taj Mahal | architectural achievement of the Mughal rulers of India |
enclaves | areas, particularly in China, reserved for European trade activity |
isolationism | foreign policy of Japan until US forced them to open, also US policy until Cold War |
Shogun | historically, the true ruler of Japan as the emperor was weak |
Palace of Versailles | built by King Louis XIV of France as a symbol of his absolute power |
Peter the Great | absolute ruler of Russia known for its Westernization |
constitutional monarch | type of monarchy in England due to Glorious Revolution |
King Charles I | English monarch executed due to English Civil War |
Oliver Cromwell | leader of the forces of the "Roundheads" of who took control of England to establish the "Commonwealth" |
King Charles II | king who was restored the throne of England at Parliament's request |
William and Mary | signed the English Bill of Rights becoming first constitutional monarchs of England |
Glorious Revolution | bloodless revolution in England resulting in William and Mary becoming constitutional monarchs |
common law | English law not based on social ranking or status, but by on court's rulings |
Scientific Revoltion | period when people began to look to reason and systematic observation for knowledge |
Enlightenment | period when people began to use reason to understand law, politics, and human society |
Nicolas Copernicus | proposed heliocentric theory during Scientific Revolution |
Galileo Galilei | confirmed heliocentric theory with a telescope during Scientific Revolution |
Isaac Newton | proposed the theory of gravity during Scientific Revolution |
William Harvey | discovered blood flows in a closed circulatory system during Scientific Revolution |
Johannes Kepler | discovered the laws of planetary movement like elliptical orbits during Scientific Revolution |
Thomas Hobbes | Enlightenment thinker who wrote the Leviathan claiming rulers should have absolute power |
John Locke | Enlightenment thinker who wrote Two Treatises on Government proposing inalienable rights and the right of the people to revolt |
Montesquieu | Enlightenment thinker who wrote In the Spirit of Laws advocating for the separation of powers |
John-Jacques Rousseau | Enlightenment thinker who wrote the Social Contract and supported direct democracy |
Voltaire | Enlightenment thinker who advocated fore the separation of church and state and religious tolerance |
Declaration of Independence | written by Thomas Jefferson, included Locke's idea of inalienable rights-inspired by Enlightenement |
Thomas Jefferson | inspired by Enlightenment, wrote Declaration of Independence |
Storming of the Bastille | event that sparked the French Revolution |
Reign of Terror | period of French Revolution when Robespierre and radical Jacobins held mass executions by guilletine |
King Louis XVI | French monarch executed during French Revolution |
Napoleon | ends French Revolution by staging coup d'etat and making himself dictator |
Johann Sebastian Bach | Baroque composer during Enlightenment |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Classical composer during the Enlightenmet |
Eugene De La Croix | French Romantic painter during Enlightenment |
Romanticism | style of art that focused on natural scenes and people during Enlightenment |
Miguel Cervantes | introduced new literary style, the novel, by writing Don Quixote during the Enlightenment |
Second Agricultural Revolution | period during Scientific Revolution/Enlightenment when technology was added to farming |
peninsulares | Spanish born in Spain-served as viceroys & colonial officers in Latin American colonies |
creoles/criollos | American born children and descendants of peninsulares who led successful revolution of independence in Latin America |
Amerinidians | native population of Latin America first enslaved by Europeans then granted legal protections |
mestizos | the people of mixed descent (part Spanish & part Amerindian) in Latin American colonies |
Toussaint L'Ouverture | led Haitian slaves to revolt for independence and abolition of slavery |
Father Miguel Hidlago | began the Mexican Revolution for independence with the Grito de Dolores |
Simon Bolivar | known as the 'liberator', led revolutions of independence in Northern South America (Ecuador, Colombia, & Venezuela) |
Monroe Doctrine | warned Europe that US would not tolerate attempts to dominate Latin America/recognized Latin American independence |
Napoleon | created French Empire but failed to unify Europe under French domination |
Napoleonic Code | legal code created by Napoleon to create uniform set of laws & spread Enlightenment |
Congress of Vienna | crafted Post-Napoleonic Europe by: restoring conservative monarchs, redrawing European borders; balancing power |
political ideologies resulting from Congress of Vienna | conservatives (anti-Enlightenment) and liberals (pro-Enlightenment) |
Revolutions of 1848 | political uprising in Europe resulting from actions of Congress of Vienna; liberals lost-conservatives won |
nationalism | idea different ethnicities deserved their own nation or extreme pride in one's nation; cause for German & Italian unification and WWI |
Otto Von Bismarck | political leader in Prussia and then Germany who led German unification |
realpolitik | Otto Von Bismarck's theory anything that needs to be done to maintain power is justifiable |
Franco-Prussian War | final war leading to German unification |
Count Cavour | politician who unified northern Italy |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | joined southern Italy to northern Italy through guerilla warfare by his "Red Shirts" during Italian unification |
the Papal States | area controlled by Roman catholic Pope which was last to join unified Italy |
Emmanuel I | the first king of unified Italy |
Wilhelm I | the first king of unified Germany |
Industrial Revolution | era during which cottage industry work was replaced by factory work due to mechanization |
textile industry | first industry of the Industrial Revolution |
James Hargreaves | invented the spinning jenny-one machine could do the work of 16 people |
Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin which resulted in higher demand for slave labor and land |
Louis Pasteur | discovered bacteria |
home of the Industrial Revolution | England |
James Watt | improved steam engine leading to Industria Revolution |
Henry Bessemer | developed the Bessemer Process to create steel during the Industrial revolution |
Edward Jenner | developed a smallpox vaccine during the Industrial Revolution |
entered the workforce during the Industrial Revolution | women and children |
womens' suffrage movement | movement for women to gain the vote which began during Industrial Revolution |
labor unions | protested for better working conditions and wages during Industrial Revolution |
strikes | method of protest commonly used by labor unions |
capitalism | economic theory which believes the government should stay out of the economy |
socialism | economic theory that believes the government should control the economy to protect workers |
Adam Smith | wrote the Wealth of Nations explaining capitalism |
Karl Marx | wrote the Communist Manifesto explaining socialism and communism |
laissez-faire economics | meaning "hands-off," it is another name for capitalism |
invisible hand | the law of supply and demand that governs capitalism |
colonies | form of imperialism where a "mother country" (the colonizer) takes complete social, economic, and political control of an area |
sphere of influence | type of imperialism where an independent country is carved up in places where foreign countries dominate business/the economy |
protectorate | type of imperialism where a country trades "protection" for economic and political influence |
Suez Canal | British and French controlled passage through Egypt which shortened route to Asia |
Boer Wars | wars between Dutch and British over colonization of Southern Africa |
Boxer Rebellion | Rebellion in China against Western European influence during Age of Imperialism |
Indian National Party/Congress | Indian political movement for independence-led boycotts of British goods |
Hindu nationalism | Indian response to European Christian missionary efforts |
Commodore Perry | US naval leader who forced Japan to open its doors to trade |
militarism | build up of a nations armed forces and armaments in anticipation of war or for imperialism-cause of WWI |
alliances | mutual defense pacts-cause of WWI as it dragged nations into war |
imperialism | the effort to create an empire through colonization especially-cause of WWI as led to European competition |
Archduke Franz Ferdinand | heir to Austro-Hungarian throne, his assassination by Serbian nationalist led to outbreak of WWI |
Kaiser Wilhelm II | leader of Germany during WWI |
unrestricted submarine warfare | German use of submarines to attack civilian ships during WWI-brought US in to war |
Lusitania | luxury passenger ship sunk by German unrestricted submarine warfare during WWI |
Zimmerman Note | German letter soliciting alliance with Mexico against US-interception led US to join war |
Triple Alliance/Central Powers | enemy alliance of US and Britain during WWI-included Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy (at first), and the Ottoman Empire |
Triple Entente | alliance friendly to US in WWI-included Russia, Britain, & France |
Allied Powers | victorious alliance US joined in both WWI & WWII-included Britain, France, & Russia/USSR both times |
Russian Revolution of 1917 | Bolshevik Revolution which led to execution of Czar Nicholas and establishment of communism |
Czar Nicohals II | incompetent ruler of Russia during WWI who failed to industrialize, modernize, or create taxation system |
Russo-Japanese War | war lost by Russia to Japan in 1905 which started a revolution that failed, but was completed by the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution |
condition of Russian peasants | poor and landles |
Vladimir Lenin | leader of the Bolshevik Party & Bolshevik Revolution-became the leader of Russia/USSR |
Russian Civil War | response to the victory of the Bolshevik Revolution-Communist Reds vs. anti-Communist Whites (Reds won) |
reason Russia exited WWI | Russian Revolution and Lenin taking power |
Woodrow Wilson | US President during WWI and creator of the League of Nations through his 14 Points-his plan for peace |
reparations | vast sums of money ordered to be paid by Germany for WWI damages |
Treaty of Versailles | punitive peace treaty Germany's Wiemar Republic was forced to sign after WWI-divided into Articles |
war guilt clause | paper Germany had to sign accepting all blame for staring WWI |
empires dismantled after WWI | German Empire, Ottoman Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, & Russian Empire |
New Economic Poicy | Lenin's economic policy for Russia to reintroduce capitalism to take a gradual approach to instituting communism |
Joseph Stalin | Lenin's successor and leader of USSR during WWI as well as start of Cold War |
5 Year Plans | Stalin's economic plans for state controlled economy with collectivization of agriculture and industrialization-full scale communism |
Abyssinia/Ethiopia | country invaded by Mussolini's Italy before WWII |
Manchuria | region of China invaded by Japan before WWII |
appeasement | failed European policy of giving into Hitler's demands to avoid conflict |
FLAW | failures of League of Nations: formed without US, lacked military, aggression not stopped, was unable to maintain peace |
mandate system | system used to after WWI for European countries to control areas not deemed ready for independence (Africa & Middle East) |
tariffs | taxes on imported goods that ruined world trade leading into the Depression |
Roaring Twenties | period of prosperity US enjoyed briefly before the Depression |
Black Tueday | Oct. 29, 1929 day of stock market crash-trigger of the Depression |
lines of credit | used by people who wanted to invest in stock but didn't have the money-essentially bad loans leading to Depression |
bank runs | term for when people panicked and ran to banks to take out their money before they collapsed during the Depression |
Dust Bowl | terrible drought that destroyed American farming during the Depression |
inflation | when prices rise relative to the value of money-a cause of the Great Depression |
single party state/dictatorship | nation ruled by one political party (ex: Nazi Germany, Communist USSR) |
Wiemar Republic | German government at end of WWI forced to sign Treaty of Versialles |
Nazi Party | German party of National Socialism; party of Hitler |
Nuremburg Laws | Hitler's first set of Anti-Semetic legislation-stripped Jews of German citizenship and banned intermarriage |
Final Solution | end of Holocaust-period when Hitler tried to exterminate all Jews |
Holocaust | genocide against the Jews and others like gypsies during WWII under Hitler |
Great Purge | period when Stalin used NKVD to execute or imprison anyone suspected of disloyalty or dissatisfaction with his rule |
Fascist | political party of Mussolini; party of Italy's single-party state in WWII |
Axis Powers | alliance between Italy, Germany, & Japan during WWII |
Hirohito | emperor of Japan during WWII |
Hideki Tojo | military dictator of Japan during WWII; ordered invasion of Manchuria & bombing of Pearl Harbor |
Benito Mussolini | leader of Italy during WWII |
self-determination | belief advocated for by Woodrow Wilson that a people should have self-governance |
Sudetenland | piece of Czechoslovakia given to Hitler at Munich Conference due to appeasement |
Anschluss of Austria | annexation of Austria by Germany under Hitler-violation of Treaty of Verailles |
Poland | invasion of this country by Hitler in 1939 launched WWII |
Battle of Britain | 1940 battle "air war" fought between Britain and Nazi Germany |
Non-Aggression Pact | agreement between Hitler and Stalin to stay out of each other's way leading into WWII |
Pearl Harbor | US naval base attacked by Japan drawing US into WWII |
D-Day | US "storming of the beaches of Normandy" leading to liberation of France & Western Europe from Nazi control |
Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Japanese cities US dropped atomic bombs on in 1945 ending WWII |
Marshall Plan | US plan to rebuild European economies with money and aid after WWII |
satellite nations | nickname for nations in Soviet sphere of influence during Cold War |
NATO | alliance between US and nations in our sphere of influence during Cold War |
Warsaw Pact | alliance between USSR and nations in their sphere of influence during Cold War |
Iron Curtain | what the nations in the Soviet sphere of influence "fell behind" during the Cold War |
occupation zones | Germany and Korea were divided into these following WWII |
Berlin | city in Germany that became focus of US/USSR tensions |
Berlin Airlift | measure taken by US to help Western Berliners during Berlin Crisis/Blockade |
Berlin Crisis | period when US and USSR were in standoff over what to do with Berlin |
Berlin Wall | "solution" USSR and East Germany came up with to deal with the Berlin Crisis |
Yalta & Potsdam | conferences between Stalin, Roosevelt, & Churchill to decide what to do when WWII ended-spheres of influence decided-Origin of Cold War |
Truman Doctrine | statement by President Truman that US would protect any nation threatened by communism during Cold War |
containment | Cold War policy created by Truman Doctrine |
Mao Zedong | leader of communist Red Army in Chinese Civil War-became leader of communist China as a result |
domino theory | theory that countries would fall to communism one by one like a set of dominoes-cause of"Containment" policy during Cold War |
Jiang Jeishi/Chaing Kai Shek | leader of Nationalist forces during Chinese Civil War-lost |
People's Republic of China | communist mainland China |
Republic of China | capitalist democracy now known as Taiwan |
38th parallel | latitude line that divides North and South Korea |
DMZ/Demilitarized Zone | heavily armed border diving North and South Korea as no peace treaty has been signed |
Korean Conflict (War) | first proxy war during Cold War-ends with North and South as 2 nations |
Vietnam Police Action (War) | proxy war of Cold War that US lost-Vietnam is communist nation |
country that supported North Korea during Korean War | China |
Ho Chi Minh | leader of Nationalist forces in Vietnam War-US enemy |
Viet Cong/Viet Minh | victorious Nationalist forces of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam War` |
French Indochina | colonial name of Vietnam |
Nikita Khrushchev | leader of Soviet Union during Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 |
Cuban Missile Crisis | international crisis between US and USSR due to Khrushchev placing nuclear missiles in Cuba |
Fidel Castro | communist leader of Cuba who allowed Khrushchev to place nuclear missiles in Cuba |
United Nations | replaced the failed League of Nations after WWII-international peace-keeping organization |
Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man | document created by United Nation to provide code of conduct to protect inalienable rights around the world |
Adolf Hitler | leader of Germany & the Nazi Party responsible for WWII and the Holocaust |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt | US president during the Great Depression and WWII- famous for his "fireside chats" |
Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of England during WWII-US ally |
Harold Truman | US President who ended WWII by authorizing use of atomic bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki Japan |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | US General who was the Commander of the Allied forces in Europe-led D-Day invasion-liberated Western Europe from Nazi control, later became President of US |
Douglas MacArthur | US General who was Commander in the Pacific Theater of WWII & then in charge of occupation of Japan and Korean War |
Bataan Death March | march of US soldiers to prisoner camps in Philippines after MacArthur's forces defeated |
island-hopping | method used by US General MacArthurto liberate Philippines & defeat Japan in the Pacific Theater of WWII |
George C. Marshall | US General who recruited large military for WWII & created Marshall Plan for rebuilding of Europe |
Nuremburg Trials | Trials of Nazi war criminals for things like "crimes against humanity" following WWII |
Jomo Kenyatta | led revolution for independence of Kenya following WWII |
African National Congress (ANC) | led the revolution for independence and to end apartheid in South Africa following WWII |
Nelson Mandela | led the ANC to win South African independence, end apartheid, and become 1st Black President of South Africa |
Algeria | fought violent war for independence against French colonizers following WWII |
Western Africa | region of Africa that achieved independence peacefully after WWII |
Mohandas Gandhi | leader of the Indian independence movement-led the Indian National Party/Congress |
caste system | social structure of India dictated by Hinduism |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Indian Nationalist who wanted to make India like the Western democracies |
French Madates | Syria & Lebanon |
British Mandates | Palestine & Transjordan |
Ottoman Empire | part of WWI Central Powers, divided into mandates following its defeat by Allied Powers |
Apartheid | system of racial segregation imposed in South Africa-designed to keep the races "apart" |
Golda Meir | Prime Minister of Israel who led Israel to victory in Yom Kippur War |
Gamal Abdul Nasser | President of Egypt who nationalized Suez Canal and built the Aswan Dam |
places where genocides have ocurred | Rwanda, Kosovo, Cambodia, Armenia, Germany, Poland, USSR |
Act of Supremacy | in England, made king the head of Anglican Church diminishing authority of the Catholic Church & Pope |
Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister of England who was good friend to US beacuse like US, she supported free trade and a powerful military |
Northern Ireland Conflict | conflict for political control between Protestant and Catholics up until the 1990s |
examples of terrorism | 9/11, Northern Ireland Conflict |
examples of international trade networks | NAFTA, EU, WTO |
International Monetary Fund | international "bank" that provides loans for development & tries to stabilize the international economy |