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History Finals
| This group of mostly middle class business leaders and merchants agrees that there was a need for parliaments that spoke for the people | Liberals |
| Imposing Russian culture on all ethnic groups in the empire | Russification |
| Otto Von Bismarck's tough power politics that left no room for idealism | Realpolitik |
| Were considered legally free after the Edict of Emancipation in Russia, but debt still tied them to the land | Serfs |
| Usually wealthy property owners or nobility who argued for protecting the monarchies of Europe | Conservatives |
| Country that lost territory as a result of the unification of Italy | Austria |
| the largest, best-organized, and economically strongest German state | Prussia |
| 4 | Bulkins |
| 4 | Nationalism |
| Favored a drastic change to extend democracy to the people | Radicals |
| The newest type of engine developed for industrial use during the late 1700s was powered by this | Steam |
| First european nation to industrialize | England |
| 2nd european nation to successfully industrialize | Belgium |
| He invented the seed drill | Jethro Tull |
| He improved the steam engine | James Watt |
| This means the growth of large cities and happened as a result of industrialization | Urbanization |
| Included skilled workers, business people, and wealthy farmers that sometimes had more money than aristocrats and who enjoyed a comfortable standard of living | Middle Class |
| He believed in capitalism and that individuals should be allowed to act freely without gov. interference | Adam Smith |
| He developed the ideology | Karl Marx |
| Means "Let do" and was applied to philosophy of capitalism;by extension it means "Let the people do as they please without gov. regulation | Laissez Faire |
| Associations of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages | Unions |
| Economic system in which all systems of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all | Socialism |
| Economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people, private property does not exist, and all goods and services are shared equally. | communism |
| Economic system based on private property ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit | Capitalism |
| Theory that government actions are useful only if they promote the greatest goods for the greatest number of people | Utilitarianism |
| Balkans, India, or Egypt? Colonized by the British and became valuable for its agricultural products | India |
| Balkans, India, or Egypt? Colonized by the british because of the Suez Canal which was important for trade | Egypt |
| Balkans, India, or Egypt? Russia wanted control of this region because it wanted access to the Mediterranean Sea | Balkans |
| list some of the motives for European Imperialism | -New market and raw materials -Spread religion/Christianity -Nationalism |
| What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference? | Conference on how to divide Africa so Europeans didnt go to war. |
| What does "The sun never sets on the British Empire" mean? | Great Britain had colonies all over the globe |
| Dangerous area between tranches | No man's land |
| The use of armed forces to achieve a nation's goals | Militarism |
| Fighting along Germany's border with Russia | Eastern Front |
| Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire | Central Powers |
| produce patriotic citizens willing to die for their country | Nationalism |
| The Balkin peninsula | powder keg |
| His assassination triggers the war | ArchDuke Ferdinand |
| Germany's way to avoid two-front war | Schlieffen Plan |
| created economic competition for the world resources | Imperialism |
| Britain, France, USA, Russia | Allies |
| use both civilization and military resources to fight a war | Total war |
| First country to declare war in WW1 | Austria-Hungary |
| ends war between Russia and Germany | Treaty of Brest Litovsk |
| Strategy that cause high casualties and little movement | Trench Warfare |
| Trench warfare on the German-French border | Western Front |
| Huge amounts of casualties suffered by both sides, little exchange of territory | Battle of Somme |
| as a result of this battle, Germany's Schlieffen Plan was stopped; Germany had to fight a two-front war | First Battle of Marne |
| fighting until one side runs out of soldiers and supplies | War of Attrition |
| U-Boats, tanks, machine guns, poison gas, and airplanes | New Weapons |
| Lenin's slogan for the Communist revolution in Russia | "Peace, Land, Bread" |
| Russian farmers forced to pool their land and work on large cooperative farms. | Collective Farming |
| Multi-step plan to prevent future wars and ensure war peace | Wilson's Fourteen Points |
| Peace Treaty that ended WW1;Germany bore the brunt of responsibility for the war; set the stage for WWII | Treaty of Versailles |
| When nations devoted all their military and civilian resources to the war | Total War |
| Describes a leader who has absolute power | Autocrat |
| Organized violence against the Jews | Pogroms |
| Describes a gov. that controls all aspects of public and private life | Totalitarianism |
| What were the causes of WWI (MAINE) | Militarism Alliances or Assassination Imperialism Nationalism Economic Competition |
| WHy were the Communists able to take over Russia | They had the support of the Poor/Peasants |
| Explain the outcome of the Russo-Japanese war | -Japan beat Russia -The defeat caused problems in Russia -Japan "Can't beat them? Join them." -They fought over the territory of China and Korea -The treaty for war was negotiated in New Hampshire by T. Roosevelt -Ended in 1905 |
| The nation in which the global depression began | United States |
| A gov. that controls every aspect of public and private life | Totalitarianism |
| A militant political philosophy that demands complete loyalty to the state and its leader | Fascism |
| Dictator of Italy from 1922-1945 | Benito Mussolini |
| The German form of fascism | Nazism |
| Der Furher and leader of the Third Reich | Adolf Hitler |
| A gov. which glorifies the military and keeps a standing army prepared for war | Militarism |
| General in charge of Japan in the late 1930s and early 1940s | Hideki Tojo |
| A gov. policy of avoiding involvement with other nations | isolationism |
| The agreement between Germany and Russia not to attack each other, signed in 1939 | The Non-Aggression Pact |
| Hitler's annexation of this country caused by the League of Nations to issue a warning that Germany was in violation of the Treaty of Versailles | Austria |
| Hitler's dream of pure blooded Germans dominating the world; physically and mentally "defective" people were killed | Aryan race |
| systematic extermination of a specific group of people | genocide |
| scapegoats for all of Germany's problems | Jews |
| "lightning war" strategy of the Germans | Blitzkrieg |
| those who wished to remain uninvolved in the affairs of other nations | isolationism |
| did nothing stop Hitler's aggression | League of Nations |
| Giving in to an aggressor at the Munich Conference Britain and France gave the Sudetenland to Hitler in attempt to avoid war | Appeasement |
| Allied strategy in the Pacific, take smaller Japanese-held islands and cut off supply routes, starving Japanese troops into surrender | Island Hopping |
| Japanese attack against this naval base was the trigger for US entry into the war | Pearl Harbor |
| WWII officially began when GB and France declared war in response to Germany invading this country | Poland |
| The Axis powers wanted control of this region for the oil and strategic geographic location, which included access to the Suez Canal and could hamper Allied efforts to invade Europe | North Africa |
| The turning point for the Allies in North Africa | El Alamein |
| He was the supreme commander of the Allied forces for the D-Day invasion | Eisenhower |
| The final German offensive in Europe | Battle of the Bulge |
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