Ap Euro Term 2 Flashcards

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1
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***1689-1789

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The Era of Enlightenment or Age of Reason

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***1776

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Adam Smith publishes Wealth of Nation

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1712-1778

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau must be recognized as the link between the Enlightenment and the Romantic Era.

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***1689

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English Bill of Rights

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5
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***1701-1713

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Wars of Spanish Succession pits France (and Spain) against the Grand Alliance who wish to fight French hegemony

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***1713

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Treaty of Utrecht ends the War of Spanish Succession benefits the English, Prussians, and other members of the Grand Alliance opposing the “Sun King.”

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Early 18th Century in England

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Walpole becomes leader of government as de facto Prime Minister as England develops Party Politics

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***1698-1725

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Peter the Great Begins Westernization of Russia.

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1700-1721

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Great Northern War between Swedes and Russia ends with Russian expansion and emergence as the Great Baltic power

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10
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1713

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The Pragmatic Sanction is signed

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***1740

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Frederick the Great of Prussia and Maria Theresa of Austria come to their respective Hohenzollern and Habsburg thrones and begin German dualisms duel

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1740-1748

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War of Austrian Succession between Frederick’s Prussia and Maria Theresa’s Austria begins.

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13
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***18th century

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Rococo Art and Mozart

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14
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1756

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Diplomatic Revolution

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15
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***1756-63

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The Seven Years War (known as the French and Indian War in North America)

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16
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***1780-1790

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Reign of Josef II of Austria

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17
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***1789-1815

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French Revolution and Napoleonic Era

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18
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***May 5, 1789

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The Estates General are summoned by Louis XVI to respond to the economic crisis.

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19
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***June 20-27

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The Tennis Court Oath.

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20
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***July 14, 1789

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Storming of the Bastille

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21
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***August 4, 1789

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Abolition of feudal privileges by National Constituent Assembly

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22
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August 26,1789

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Publication of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

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23
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***1790

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Civil Constitution of the Clergy

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24
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***1790

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“Father of Modern Conservatism”, the Brit Edmund Burke

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25
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***1791-92

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Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft publish treatises calling for women’s equality

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1791

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Royal family tries to escape in the “Flight to Varennes”

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1791 October 21

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Legislative Assembly convenes

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1792

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France declares war on Austria and Prussia

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1792 September 21

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Abolition of monarchy; France becomes a republic.

30
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***1793-94

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Radical Phase of the French Revolution

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1795

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Thermidorian Reaction quells the Reign of Terror as Robespierre is executed and the Directory takes control.

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***1789-1791

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Moderate stage of revolution dominated by those members of Third Estate originally summoned to the Estates General

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***1793-94

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Radical Revolution eventually led by the Jacobin Party leader Robespierre

34
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1795-99

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Conservative Directory fails to solve financial crisis or famine in France

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***1799

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Napoleon’s coup d’etat overthrows corrupt Directory

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1804

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Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of 1st French Empire

37
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***1804

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England dominates the High Seas for a Century

38
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***1812

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Napoleon makes the fateful decision to invade Russia

39
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1814

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Battle of Nations

40
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***1789-1848

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Romantic Era

41
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***1815

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The forces of conservatism and reaction dominate the Congress of Vienna

42
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***1815-1914

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the “Long Peace” in Europe between the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of WWI

43
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***1776-1830

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Era of Democratic Revolutions Sweep Across the New World and Western “Liberal” Europe

44
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***1815-1848

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The Age of Metternich

45
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***1819

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Peterloo Massacre in Britain and the repressive Carslbad Decrees in the German

46
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1820’s

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Both the conflict over the Monroe Doctrine and the Greek Revolution

47
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1830

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Revolutions in Europe

48
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***19th Century

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Post-Napoleonic Europe—Industrial Revolution

49
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***1815-1846

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Corn Laws In Effect

50
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***1832

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Great Reform Bill in Britain

51
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1830’s, 1840’s, 1850’s, 1860’s

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Dickens was a voice of conscience for England during the Industrial Revolution in England

52
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***1838-1848

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Chartists in England call for universal suffrage

53
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***1798–1848

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Parson Malthus’s “Essay on Population” and David Ricardo’s “Iron Law of Wages” rule the day as the “Manchester School” of economics dominates the “dismal science.

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***1846

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Repeal of Corn Laws in England

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***1848

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Chartists disband quietly considering it was the year of Revolutions

56
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1867

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The Reform Bill of 1867

57
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1884

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Reform Bill

58
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1850’s and beyond

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Scramble for Africa

59
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***1848

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Revolution sweeps across Europe and Failure of liberal nationalism

60
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***1848

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish their Communist Manifesto calling for “scientific socialism” and “dialectical materialism”

61
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***1890’s

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Fabian Socialist and Evolutionary Socialists Parties grow