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Regents Word Associa
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ottoman & Mughal Empires | Known for Religious Tolerance within their diverse territories. |
| Tokugawa Shogunate | Isolationist policy; focused on rejecting foreign influence. |
| Enlightenment | new ideas about government & law |
| John Locke | 3 Natural Rights (life, liberty, property); self-government; democracy; people |
| Voltaire | freedom of speech ("I do not agree with a word you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. ") |
| Rousseau | Social Contract (give up some rights for the common good) |
| Montesquieu | (3 syllables—3 words—3 branches) = SEPARATION OF POWERS |
| Catherine the Great | Monarch with Enlightenment Ideals (Enlightened Despot) |
| French Revolution | Robespierre & Reign Of Terror |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | stability & nationalism, Napoleonic Code |
| Three Estates (Causes of French Revolution) | social inequality; unfair tax structure |
| Congress of Vienna | restore balance of power / restore power of monarchs |
| Simon Bolivar & Toussaint L'Ouverture (Haiti) | Nationalist leaders of Latin America = wanted independence from European powers. |
| Adam Smith | capitalism, laissez faire ("hands off') |
| Karl Marx (& F. Engels) | communism, government control, Proletariat overthrow bourgeoisie (class struggle), goal is to create a classless society |
| Capitalism | Consumers control means of production, profit and self interest control market |
| Communism | Workers(proletariat) control means of production. Government makes decisions on the market. |
| Sadler report | Sad Story, revealed poor working conditions in factories, child labor |
| Reason for Imperialism | Resources of industrialization “Civilize” Native peoples National Pride |
| Berlin Conference | Scramble for Africa |
| Boxer Rebellion Taiping Rebellion | Push back against Foreign Control Sepoy Mutiny |
| Meiji Restoration | Westernization/ Modernization |
| Nationalism | Pride in one's country |
| Causes of WWI | Militarism Alliances Imperialism Nationalism |
| Otto Von Bismarck | “Blood & Iron” Unified Germany |
| Spark to start WWI | Assination of ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand |
| Vladimir Lenin | Peace, Land, and Bread (Communist Leader of Russia/USSR) |
| Treaty of Versailles | Germany Blamed for war, must pay Reparations($$ For repairs) Led to rise of Fascist dictators |
| Self Determination | Right to govern your own nation & Select own government |
| Appeasemen | Giving into an aggressor (Hitler breaking the Terms of Treaty of Versailles) |
| Difference between WWI & WWII | More advanced Technology |
| Genocide | Mass killing of specific group |
| Response to Genocide | Nuremberg trials, United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| Effect of WWII | Two World Superpower (USA & USSR) Start Cold War |
| US Policy During Cold War | Containment |
| Containment | Stop the Spread of Communism |
| Iron Curtain | Imaginary line cutting Europe in half (Democracy/Capitalism and Totalitarian/ Communism) |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Democratic “West”) |
| Warsaw Pact | USSR and Satellite states ( Communist “East”) |
| Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan | Containment, helped to stop the spread of Communism |
| United Nations | International Peacekeeping Organization |
| Gorbachev’s Policies | GlasnOst = Openness Pere$troika = Introduced capitalist ideas |
| Fall of Berlin Wall | signify end of the cold war |
| Detente | Cooling off of tensions |
| Mao Ze Dong | Communist Leader of China TOMATO = Red Through and Through |
| Great Leap Forward | Mao’s goal to increase production Great Step Back! |
| Cultural Revolution | Loyalty to Communism (Mao's little Red Book) |
| Deng Xiaoping | Communist government with Capitalist policies RADISH - Red on outside White inside |
| Gandhi | Indian Independence Civil Disobedience, Non violence, boycott british goods |
| Partition of India | Muslim-Hindu Conflict, split of India and Pakistan |
| APARTheid | kept society APART in South Africa, Racial Segregation |
| Nelson Mandela | South African Anti- Apartheid leader |
| Jomo Kenyata (Kenya) | Nationalist Leaders in Africa Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana) |
| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) | Controls price of Oil |
| Arab-Israeli Conflict | Battle over homeland and nationalism |
| Balfour Declaration | British support for Jewish Homeland |
| Zionism | Jewish Nationalism |
| Kamal Attaturk | Turkey: Westernization, Modernization, Industrialization |
| Iranian Revolution | Ayatollah Khomeini returning to fundamental Islamic traditions and Values in Iran |
| Globalization | the GLOBE is connected through; trade, better transportation, and the internet |
| Green Revolution | Increase in crop production in developing nations using fertilizers, Increase population |
| Human Rights Violations | The Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Darfore, Cambodia. |
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