History of the World
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 International Politics | the relations between different actors in the world, the characteristics of those relations and their consequences |
| State | a territorial entity controlled by government and inhabited by population. Exerciese soverignty. |
| Nation | groups of people who share a sense of national identity(usually language,culture, and history) |
| Nation-State | states that consist of one predominant nation |
| Peloponision War | -War between Athens and Sparta. -Significance: Athens became a less strong city state. While Spartans became more powerful in Greece. Ended the powerful age of Greece. |
| thucydidus | war and peace between states depend on power |
| reformation | -1517 significant political development in modern European history -Rise of merchant class, new technology: printing press, improvements in engineering. |
| feudalism | political, economic, and social system where power is through land |
| renaissaince | Formation of Italian city-states, Milan, Venice, Florence. |
| Peace of Westphalia | -set principle of sovereignty after thirty year war(state has political authority over its territory) -Significance: established nation-states. separation of church and state. beginning of current sovereign state system. |
| Thirty years war | -series of political and religious wars. -led to modern day Germany, catholics v. Lutherans. |
| French revolution | -led to democracy and nationalism. |
| Levee en masse | -men able to fighting during revolutionary wars. |
| Council of Vienna | -treaty that ends Napoleonic wars. -redrew European map, restored international stability, and reinforced sovereignty. |
| Concert of Europe | -balance of power between Europe: Britian, Austria, Prussia, and Russia. -Significance: relative peace, no wars between major powers |
| nationalism | -nation is basic political unit. -Significance:unification wars, breakdown of empires, decolonization in latin America and carribean. |
| colonialism | -one country controls another country or territory -Significance:lead to nationalist movements and wars. state competition. |
| triple alliance | germany, austro-hugary, ottoman empire. italy until 1915 |
| triple entente | Britain, France, Russia. Italy after 1915 |
| Treaty of Versailles | -Treaty after world war 1 -Significance: Germany had to pay a big price. new countries. rise of U.S power. |
| Fascism | -extreme militant nationalism. intensified nationalism. -Significance: Italy-Mussolini, Germany-Nazi party and Hitler. Political authoritarian. |
| Munich Crisis | -for nazi germany to annex area of Czechoslovakia -Significance:arranged without agreement or voice of Czechoslovakia |
| appeasement | avoiding war by making concessions to another power -Significance:country's will back up stronger country's even if they are doing wrong. ex: nazi germany and Britain(chamberlain) |
| nazi-soviet non-aggression pact | -pact that that they would remain neutral if a third party attacked either nation. |
| Marshall plan | plan for countries of Europe. |
| bretton woods system(postwar) | -established commercial and financial relations between major industrial states. reduced tariffs for trading. world bank. -Significance:created relations and pact between states. |
| Cold War | -period of hostility between U.S and soviet union(1946-1991) -Significance: economic instability in country's. cooperation needed to solve global economic crisis. civil wars, and terrorism. |
| Decolonization | -After world war II. -Significance:created many challenges.... borders, poverty, multinational countries. |
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