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Vocabulary 2
History Final
Term | Definition |
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Tennis Court Oath | a pledge made by the members of France’s National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution |
Great Fear | a wave of senseless panic that spread through the French countryside after the storming of the Bastille in 1789 |
Guillotine | a machine for beheading people, used as a means of execution during the French Revolution |
Reign of Terror | the period, from mid-1793 to mid-1794, when Maximilien Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and thousands of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed. |
Plebicite | a direct vote in which a country’s people have the opportunity to approve or reject a proposal |
Blockade | the use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region |
Hundred Days | the brief period during 1815 when Napoleon made his last bid for power, deposing the French king and again becoming emperor of France |
Central Powers | in World War I, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side |
Allied Powers | the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with the other nations that fought on their side; also, the group of nations including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States that opposed the Axis Powers in World War II |
Trench Warfare | a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield |
Armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
Fourteen Points | a series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I |
League of Nations | an international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations |
Coup d'estat | a sudden seizure of political power in a nation |
Lycee | a state-run public school in France |