| Term | Definition |
|---|
| U.S. after WW1 | was most powerful country in world, had a very good economy |
| why Britain in WW1 | Germany invaded Belgium |
| Martin Luther King Jr | emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement, 1960s, helped blacks |
| social darwinism | applying the idea of survival of the fittest to economic competition, the business that are most fit will succeed |
| USSR after collapse | it was divided into 15 independent nations, Warsaw Pact was dissolved, opening of the berlin wall |
| Warsaw Pact | mutual-defense alliance between the Soviet Union and seven satellites in Eastern Europe set up in 1955 |
| ISS | Russia, US, Canada, Japan and other European countries worked on it, developing space station in space |
| Italian Unification | was the political and social movement that annexed different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century |
| Zollverein | economic union, dismantled tariff barriers between many German states |
| island hoping | type of campaign, goal was to recapture some Japanese-held islands while bypassing others. |
| Bismarck | Chancellor of German |
| perestroika | restructuring of the government and economy |
| Manchuria | Japan invaded ____________ in Northern China, caused communists to gather against Japan |
| Jerusalem/arabs/israelis | The "Holy Land" where the jews and arabs fight over |
| tutsies/hutus | the two groups that had made the majority of the people in Rwanda; Hutus were the majority of the people, Tuties was the minority, dominated Rwanda |
| fascism | authoritarian government that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human writes |
| kamikaze | Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions, crashing their explosive-laden airplanes into American warships |
| cotton gin | founded by Eli Whitney, separate seeds and cotton in a fast way |
| dunkirk | port in France from which 300,000 allied troops were evacuated when their retreat by the German advance in 1940 |
| guernica | a small spanish town where German planes dropped bombs to practice for war |
| USSR at beginning of WW2 | Stalin and Hitler made secret treaties to protect the USSR... helped Hitler at beginning, then they changed their mind |
| continental system | blockade designed by napoleon to hurt Britain economcally by closing off ports to Britain economically by closing European ports to British goods |
| Congress of Vienna | assembly of European leaders that met after the Napoleonic era to piece Europe back together; met from September 1814 to June 1815 |
| Nuremberg laws | laws approved by the Nazi Party in 1935, depriving Jews of German citizenship and taking some rights away from them |
| tet offensive | a massive and bloody offensive by communist guerrillas against South Vietnamese communist guerrillas against South Vietnamese and American Forces on Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, 1968; helped turn American public opinion against military involvement in Vietnam |
| liberation theology | movement within the Catholic Church that urged the church to become a force for reform social justice, and put an end to proverty |
| great leap forward | Mao urged people to make a superhuman effort to increase farm and industrial output |
| kulturkampf | Bismark's "battle fro civilization," battle for civilization" intended to make Catholics put loyalty to the state above their allegiance to the Church |
| zimmerman note | Zimmermann authorized his ambassador to purpose that Germany would help Mexico "to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona" |
| ethnic cleansing | the killing or forcible removal of people of different ethnicities from an area by aggressors so that only the ethnic group of the aggressors remains |
| 4 modernizations | were the goals of Deng Xiaoping's reforms. They were first introduced by Zhou Enlai in 1975 at the Fourth National People's Congress in one of his last public acts |
| iraq/Kuwait | Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates; they all have good oil, all nations under Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) |
| Value of Ottoman empire | was the oldest empire in the world, blocked sea trade of mediterranean to the russians |
| d-day | the invasion of french coastal line to have allies troops land in europe |
| Great purge | launched by Stalin, when the secret police and Stalin cracked down on Old Bolsheviks, or party of activists from the early days of the revolution |
| Truman Doctrine | United States policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of communism |
| Munich Conference | took place in September 1938, British and French leaders again chose appeasement, they caved in to Hitler's demands and then persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland without a fight, in exchange Hitler assured Britain and France that he had no further plans to expand his territory |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man | issued in late August, this document was modeled in part on the American Declaration of Independence, written 13 years earlier, all men, the French declaration announced, were "born and remain free and equal in rights." The declaration further proclaimed that all male citizens were equal before law |
| U.S invading Iraq | U.S tries to take out all nuclear bombs from Iraq |
| Sepoy Rebellion | swept across northern and central India, sepoys brutally massacred British men, women, and children |
| Abraham Darby | used coal instead of charcoal to smelt iron, or separate iron from its ore |
| Sigmund Freud | Austrian physician, suggested tat the subconscious mind drives much of human behavior, he said that learned social values such as morality and reason help people to repress, or check, powerful urges |
| Karl Marx | a German philosopher, condemned the ideas of the Utopians as unrealistic idealism, he formulated a theory "scientific socialism," which he claimed was based on a scientific study of history |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 in which the two nations promised not to fight each other and to divide up land in Eastern Europe |
| Cavour and Exploits | unified Germany, was a shrewd and ruthless politician |
| Waterloo | battle in Belgium in the town of Waterloo, where the Prussian army crushed the French, known as Battle of Waterloo |
| IRA | Irish Republican Army |
| Sun Yixian | president of China, hoped to rebuild China on the Three Principles of the People-nationalism, democracy, and economic security for everyone, stepped down from president of China in 1912 |
| Realpolitik | realistic politics based on the needs of the state |
| Tennis Court Oath | famous oath made on a tennis court by members of the Third Estate in France |
| Tiananmen Square | a huge public plaza at the center of China's capital, Beijing |
| Salt/Start Treaties | treaties about nuclear weapons, missiles |
| Hitler/treaty of Versailles | Hitler built up the German military in defiance of the treaty that had ended World War 1, Germans hated the Versailles treaty, and Hitler's successful challenge made him more popular at home |
| Factory acts | child labor reform laws, were passed in the early 1800sm these laws were passed to reduce a child's workday to 12 hours and also to remove children under the age of 8 or 9 from the cotton mills |
| Utilitarianism | idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people |
| Reign of Terror | ime period during the French Revolution from September 1793 to July 1794 when people in France were arrested for not supporting the revolution and many were executed |
| Convoys | group of merchant ships protected by warships |
| Alexander III | one of the leaders of who tried to reform Russia, he failed, |
| information age | the time and age when the people started building computers and other technology, 20th century |
| rurh valley/ france | France took control of it, a coal-rich valley |
| western front | the front that protected the western border of france from the germans |
| important substitution | manufacturing goods locally to replace imports |
| socialism/new countries | they wanted socialism in new countries because they wanted to government to have some control of the economy |
| open door policy | the policy to keep Chinese trade open to everyone on an equal basis |
| putting out system | the raw cotton was distributed to peasant families who spun it into thread and then wove the thread into cloth in their won homes |
| Napoleon/russians | one of the russian leaders, reformed russia, russians did not like them |
| Gulf War 91' | Bush vs Sudan, US thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction |
| wmd | weapons of mass destruction |
| Lenin | the ruler who took over the USSR after Stalin |
| USSR's "vietnam" | Afghanistan |
| triple alliance | Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungry |
| veit congo | the communist rebels trying to overthrow South Vietnam's government |
| stalingrad | was a World War II battle between Nazi Germany and its allies and the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in southern Russia |
| bloody sunday | Bloody Sunday, London, 13 November 1887, was the name given to a demonstration against coercion in Ireland and to demand the release from prison of MP William O'Brien, who was imprisoned for incitement as a result of an incident in the Irish Land War. The demonstration was organized by the Social Democratic Federation and the Irish National League. |
| global north and south | The North-South Divide (or Rich-Poor Divide) is the socio-economic and political division that exists between the wealthy developed countries, known collectively as "the North", and the poorer developing countries (least developed countries), or "the South." |
| james watt | (19 January 1736 – 25 August 1819[1]) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both the Kingdom of Great Britain and the world. |
| railroads/canals | made during the industrial revolution. helped transpiration and helped with trade |
| manhattan project | racing to harness the atom |
| urbanization | nivement of people from rural areas to cities |
| Quebec independence | quebec wanted to be free because they were not being treated the same as the english speaking cities... quebec is a french speaking country |
| interdependence | mutual dependence of countries on goods, resources, labor, and knowledge from other parts of the world. |
| russia/ww1/entrance | entered war because Austria-Hungry invaded the other baltic countries |
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