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WS 2 ppl pt 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| voltaire | french; believed in freedom of speech; seperation of church and state |
| rousseau | french; social contract; government is only a contract and not that necessary |
| hobbes | english; used natural law to say that people need an absolute monarch because they are naturally bad; wrote leviathan |
| locke | english; used natural law; two treaties on government; man has rights and is generally good; government is only a contract and not that necessary |
| jefferson | american; wrote declaration of independence |
| bach | second greatest composer of the enlightenment; baroque |
| delacroix | french; painted liberty leading the people and nature scenes |
| cervantes | spanish; novelist; wrote don quixote |
| william and mary | rulers of england after glorious revolution; had less power than parliment |
| napoleon | dictator of france; conquers europe; spreads code of laws |
| metternich | austrian prince; congress of vienna; balance of power than parliment |
| charles I | king of england; wants to be absolute; executed after civil war |
| cromwell | puritan; led english civil war; then became dictator |
| thrid estate | french poor and middle class; begin revolution at bastille |
| louis XVI | french absolute ruler; executed in reign of terror |
| cavour | advisor to king of sardina; united N. Italy |
| garibaldi | guerilla warfare; united S. Italy with N. Italy |
| bismark | realpoltik; "blood and iron;" Prussian who created germany |
| toussaint L'Ouverture | led slave revolt in Haiti; inspired by the French Revolution |
| bolivar | led revolution all over latin america |
| father miguel hidalgo | led the mexican independence movement |
| viceroys | colonial officers |
| creoles | europeans born in latin america |
| mestizos | people with native american and european ancestory |
| whitney | cotton gin; clean cotton faster; need for slaves grows |
| watt | steam engine; work now done by machines instead of human power |
| bessemer | invented steel; now machines could be made stronger and resistant to fire |
| smith | capitalism and laissez-faire; wealth of nations; profits make people work |
| jenner | made world's first vaccination; small pox |
| pasteur | discovered germs/ bacteria |
| Cmdr. Perry | used US Navy to get Japan to open up to trade |
| karl marx | socialist; communist manifesto; proletariat to rise up and revolt |
| james hargreaves | invented the spinning jenny |
| archduke ferdinand | prince of austria- hungary; assassinated; spark for WWI |
| tsar nicholas II | ruler of russia in early 1900s; incompetent; overthrown |
| bolsheviks | radical socialist led by lenin |
| lenin | russian socialist, wanted to spread socialism all over the world, led by the bolsheviks; took over russian government in a coup d'etat |
| woodrow wilson | us president WWI |
| hitler | totalitarian leader of germany |
| mussolini | totalitarian leader of italy |
| stalin | totalitarian leader of russia |
| tojo | totalitarian leader of japan |
| FDR | us president during WWII at yalta |
| truman | dropped atomic bomb on japan; said us will lead fight against communism |