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Stack #6067
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1789 | When the french overthrew their king |
| 1789-1799 | Years the french revolution occured |
| Louis XVI | King overthrown during the french revolution |
| marie antoinette | queen of france during the french revolution |
| bastille | paris prison-fortress destroyed ruing the french revolution |
| old regime | the traditional political and social sytem in france |
| guillotine | device for cutting off a person's head; introduced during the french revolution |
| reign of terror | time of killing off all your enemies |
| napoleon | french dictator 1799-1815; military genius |
| napoleonic code | law code which stated that all men are equal before the law |
| coup d'etat | sudden, forceful takeover of a government |
| waterloo | where napoleon met his final defeat |
| wellington | british general famous for beating napoleon |
| nationalism | idea of pride in your country and its people |
| congress of vienna | summit conference to settle europe after napoleon |
| metternich | man who tried to keep europ under control during the 1800s |
| Garibaldi | most famous leader of italian unification |
| bismark (iron and steel) | man who built germany in the 19th century |
| Victoria | Queen of england much of the 19th century |
| industrial revolution | change from making things by hand to making in large quantities by machines in factories |
| 19th century | when the industrial revolution took place |
| james watt | man who perfected the steam engine for practical use |
| marx | critic of the industrial revolution; father of communism |
| Britain | first country to industrialize |
| prolertariat | marx's term for the working class |
| laissez-faire | system where the gov't does not interfere in business and trade |
| communism | idea of no private property; everything is shared |
| franco-prussian war | major 19th century war between france and germany |
| monopoly | total control of a market or product by one company |
| scramble for africa | name given by europeans to the race for african colonies |
| imperialism | building colonial empires overseas |
| boxer rebellion | revolt to drive foreigners out of china |
| boer war | war between britain and the natives for control of s. africa, 1899-1902 |
| suez canal | highway to india which connects the mediterranean sea to the red sea |
| sepoy | indian soldier who served in the british army |
| ghandi | leader of the indian independence movement (1947) |
| roosevelt | president who mediated a peace between russia and japan in portsmith, NH |
| central powers, allied powers | the two sides in world war I |
| 1914-1918 | when world wor I was fought |
| Franz Ferdinand | man whose assassination started WWI |
| kaiser wilhelm II | german leader during WWI |
| lusitania | british liner sunk by a german submarine off the coast of ireland |
| woodrow wilson | president of the united states during wwI |
| stalemate | situation in which further action is useless |
| trench warfare | method of fighting in ditches deep enough to enable soldiers to fight standing up |
| zimmerman telegram | suggested an alliance between germany and mexico |
| armistice | 11/11/18-an end to the fighting |
| schlieffen plan | german plan to conquer france then russia |
| reparations | payment for war damages |
| treaty of versailles | treaty ending WWI |
| league of nations | wilson's fourteenth point |
| treaty of brest-litovsk | peace treaty signed with germany ending the russian involvement in wwI |
| pogroms | organized massacre of jews by the Russian government |
| Czar Nicholas II | Czar overthrown byt he Russian Revolution |
| Respuetin | Siberian "holy man" responsible for the Russian Revolution |
| Lenin | led the communist in the russian revolution |
| stalin | communist dictator of russia 1923-1953 |
| Cheka | communist secret police |
| fascism | political belief that a country should have a strong centralized gov't with a dictator |
| mussolini | dictator of italy before and during WWII |
| FDR | President of the USA druing most of WWII |
| Hitler | Nazi leader of Germany who came to power in 1933 |
| gestapo | hitler's secret police force |
| axis, allied powers | the two sides in WWII |
| Nuremberg laws | laws that took away jewish citizenship |
| blitzkrieg | sudden, all-out method of warfare |
| appeasement | giving in to dictators to avoid war |
| chamberlain | british prime minister who followed a policy of appeasement toward hitler |
| churchill | prime minster of great britain during WWII |
| d-day | biggest allied action against germany during WWII |
| Midway | Where the japanese were stopped in the pacific |
| holocaust | the killing of six million jews in WWII |
| Hiroshima | where the first atomic bomb was used |
| Rommel (desert fox) | Germany's best general during WWII |
| Nuremberg | where nazi prisoners were tried after WWII |
| Cold war | involved tensions between the usa and the soviet union following WWII |
| marshall plan | designed to help the european countries recover from WWII |
| Iron curtain | barrier between east and west europe |
| Khruschev | outspoken, bearish, erratic soviet dictator 1956-1964 |
| Mao Ze Dong | communist leader of china 1949-1976 |
| Richard Nixon | president who visited china in 1972 |
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