| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Bolsheviks | Communist party in Russia |
| Ho Chi Minh | Leader of North Vietnam |
| French Indochina | Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia |
| Triple Entente | England, France, and Russia |
| Proletariat | The working class according to Marx |
| Karl Marx | Wrote "The Communist Manifesto" |
| Lenin | Leader of the Bolsheviks |
| Mercantilism, nationalism, secret alliances, arms race | the four causes of WWI (The Great War) |
| Marx's four principles of communism | Theory of history, labor theory of value, nature of the states, Dictatorship of the proletariat |
| Wilson's Fourteen Point Speech | universal disarm, no more secret alliances, no reparations, maintain territorial integrity, self determination, league of nations |
| June 28, 1914 to November 11,1918 | The offical dates for WWI |
| Blitzkrieg | lighting war |
| De Gaulle | Leader of the free french |
| Operation Overlord | known as D-day |
| Iwo Jima | Island known for its black sand |
| Operation Torch | The invasion of North Africa |
| Rommel | Commander of the axis forces in North Africa |
| Appeasement | A policy toward Hitler adopted by the leauge of nations to avoid another war |
| Hiroshima | The first Japanese city to experience an atomic device |
| Postdam Conference | This is when truman recived word that the US had successfully test-detonated an atomic device |
| Operation Husky | One of the names for the invasions of Italy |
| Patton | The Commander of the Allied forces in North Africa |
| Amphibious | the type of landings used in the Pacific and D-day |
| Iron curtain | It became a symbol of the cold war |
| Stalingrad | One of the major battles in the ussr that saw the German advance stopped |
| Totalitarian dictators | Mussolini in Italy, Stalin in USSR, Hirohito in Japna, Hitler in Germany, Franco in spain, FDR in US |
| September 1,1939 to May 7, 1945 | The dates for the war in Europe |
| December 7, 1941 to August 11, 1945 | The dates for the war in the Pacific |
| Iwo Jima and Okinawa | Two islands that were important to the allied powers |
| Allied commanders in the Pacific | Admiral Nitmitz and General MacArthur |
| Allied commander in Europe | Eisenhower |
| Galileo | He was the first to present the heliocentric theory. |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | She followed he husband on crusade. |
| Louis XIV | He built the palace of Versailles. |
| single vanishing point | A technique in art to help create perspective. |
| Martin Luther | He is considered the catalyst that began the protestant reformation. |
| Tempera | A type of paint used before oil paint was developed. |
| "The prince" | A how to book written by Machiavelli. |
| Petrarch | The father of humanism. |
| infidel | A non-beliver. |
| geocentric theory | The earth is the center of the universe. |
| To show the glory of france & keep an eye on nobility. | Why was the palace of Versailles buit? |
| Pope Urban II | Who was the pope when the first crusade began? |
| The end justifies the means. | What was Machiavelli's Philosophy? |
| The printing press | How did the ideas of Renaissance writers spread? |
| results of the crusades | trade & spread of ideas, rise of industry, rise of banking, emancipation of bourgeoisie, advancement of knoledge, rise of strong national governments |
| Heliocentric theory | The sun is the center of the universe and the planets orbit around it. |
| Aryans | A boisterous nomadic group of warriors who lived in villages in present day India. |
| Dravidians | A settled, well-organized people who built cities in India. |
| Brahman | A name of God in Hinduism. |
| Sanskirt | The form of Indian writing. |
| Gupta Empire | It flourished because of trade and manifacturing in India. |
| mandate of heaven | In china, a theory that officials of a government are selceted by their ability and must rule fairly. |
| Zhou dynasty | A time in china famous for its bronze ceremonial vases and carved jade work. |
| confucius | He taught that people are basically good, should be tolerant of others and respect the elderly. |
| laozi | He taught that people should be kind, humble, thrifty and the less you are governed the better. |
| Shi Huang di | The first emperor of a united China. |
| Han dynasty | During this time the yoke, paper and a dictionary were invented. |
| Silk road | A trade route between china and Rome. |
| Sahara | The largest desert in the world. |
| Great rift Valley | An area in Africa where early Africans settled because of fertile soil, water and a good climate. |
| Griots | professional record keepers, historians and political advisors in Africa. |
| corn | The most important crop to Native Americans. |
| porcelain | A fine pottery style developed in China. |
| Marco Polo | he introduced Chinese culture to medieval Europe and vice versa. |
| Kublai Khan | he helped unite China by storing grain, giving state aid to the needy, built roads, and encouraged trade. |
| haiku | A japanese poem consisting of three lines and sveenteen syllables. |
| samurai | Warriors in Japan. |
| Sijo | A famous type of poem in korea |
| The aryans | Who created the caste system? |
| Asoka | Who's first millitary campaign was also his last? |
| art, religion, mythology, and language | In what ways has Indian Culture influenced other cultures? |
| mandate of heaven | What is the most significant political achievement of the Zhou dynasty? |
| hoe | what tool did African farmers use to deter erosion? |
| trade and religion | What were the two major functions of Maya cities? |
| Chinese | What culture invented the abacus, the compass and gunpowder? |
| curved jewel, iron sword, bronze mirror | What symbols of power are still symbols of power for the Japanese imperial family today? |
| flower arrangement, landscape gardening, tea ceremonies | What were three important japanese arts developed during the Ashikaga Shogunate? |
| Divine wind | What does Kamikaze mean? |
| absolutism | When someone rules a country completely. |
| Jacobin | The liberal members of the Legislative Assembly. |
| substantive due process | This means that the laws being enforced must be fair, |
| Tennis court Oath | When the members of the Third Estate took an oath not to leave until Louis XVI agreed to their petition. |
| bourgeoisie | The french word for middle class (spelling!) |
| July 14, 1789 | The date of the french independence day |
| July 4, 1776 | The day of the American indepence day |
| freedom of speech | voltaire's philosophies |
| One man one vote, all three houses meet together | What the Jacobin wanted when they petitioned Louis XVI |
| Jacobin | the liberal group that sat on the Left hand side |
| girondists | sat on the right hand side of the Legislative Assembly |
| 1799 | The year Napoleon came into power |
| 1815 | The year Napoleon was defeated at waterloo |
| Nationalism | pride in your country |
| Talleyrand | Nap |
| Napoleonic codes | individual legality and equality, government- more authority of people, no classes, peasants- subjects of state, religious toleration, everyone has the right to work, courts are separate from those in power. |
| Khrushchev | Premier of the soviet union during the early years of the Cold War |
| Ngo Dien Nhiem | Autocratic, non-communist president of south vietnam. |
| détente | A period when you talk problems out between countries. |
| westmoreland | Commander of US forces in South Vietnam. |
| MacArthur | Leader of Un forces in Korea. |
| 38th parallel | Official dividing line between North and South Korea. |
| Castro | Communist leader of Cuba. |
| Vietcong | The people of South Vietnam that supported the communists. |
| Ho Chi Minh | Leader of North Vietnam and father of that country. |
| VISTA | A program by LBJ to help people in need in the US |
| The six Cold War Conflicts | Berlin Airlift, Korean Conflict, U-2 inciden, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam |
| Truman Doctrine | A containment policy to stop the spread of communism. |
| Mao Tse tung | "zedong's" name spelled |
| domino theory(all countries in that area would fall to communism.) | The reason they felt they had to take a stand in Vietnam |
| Laos and cambodia | the two neutral countries Ho Chi Minh trailed through to get supplies from the NV to the VC |
| Florence | the crucible of the Renassance of Italy |
| True | Renaissance people and 20th century people may share a belief that places themslves in a favorable light in comparison with those who preceded them. |
| Petrarch | The roots of the renaissance humanism can be traced to the writting of this man. |
| wealth | Capitalism depends primarily on the creation of this. |
| True | The major powers amoung Italian city-states in the 15th century were Venice, Milan, Florence, and Naples. |
| False | In representing the human figure, Renasissance sculptors imitated the greeks by creating forms that were types rather than individuals. |
| donatello | The sculptural master of the 15th century. |
| David by Donatello | The first appearance of the nude since ancient times, an uncompromising view of humanity, and the contrapposto stance. |
| mechanical prespective | A major breaktrough in Renaissance painting |
| Masaccio | The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space, modeling , and anatomical correctness. |
| Single vanishing points | Masaccio and other painters controlled linear perspective through the use of this. |
| Petrarch | Father of humanism. |
| Capitalism | The economic theory that pursues wealth and power. |
| Mughal | the 16th century Indian style that combined persian and Indian images. |
| Suleiman I | The leader of the Ottoman Turk Empire during the high Renaissance. |
| Pyramid | the basic composition of Leonard da vinci's Virgin and child with st. anne is in this form. |
| Characteristics of high renaissance art | Stability without immobility, Variety without confusion, and definition without dullness. |
| Human-centered | High Renaissance art was this. |
| Raphel | The artist who created the dliverance of St Peter. |
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