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