Ap Euro Term 3 Flashcards
***1789-1848
Romantic Era
***1815
The forces of conservatism and reaction dominate the Congress of Vienna
***1815-1914
the “Long Peace” in Europe between the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of WWI
***1776-1830
Era of Democratic Revolutions Sweep Across the New World and Western “Liberal” Europe
***1815-1848
The Age of Metternich–Reactionary Repression
***1819
Peterloo Massacre in Britain and the repressive Carslbad Decrees in the German States
1820’s
Both the conflict over the Monroe Doctrine and the Greek Revolution
1830
Revolutions in Europe
***19th Century
Post-Napoleonic Europe—Industrial Revolution
1815-1846
Corn Laws In Effect
***1832
Great Reform Bill in Britain
1830’s, 1840’s, 1850’s, 1860’s
Dickens was a voice of conscience for England during the Industrial Revolution in England
***1838-1848
Chartists in England call for universal suffrage
***1798–1848
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.
***1846
Repeal of Corn Laws in England
***1848
Chartists disband quietly considering it was the year of Revolutions
1884
Reform Bill
1850’s and beyond
Scramble for Africa
***1848
Revolution sweeps across Europe and Failure of liberal nationalism
***1848
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish their Communist Manifesto calling for “scientific socialism” and “dialectical materialism”
***1890’s
Fabian Socialist and Evolutionary Socialists Parties grow
***June 28, 1914
Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzigovina, Austrian-Hungarian Empire
***July 1914
July diplomatic crisis; blank check, ultimatum, Russian mobilization, Schlieffen Plan, Belgian neutrality
***August 1914
WWI begins—“Guns of August”
1915
Italy and Ottomans enter the fray
***1917
American enters war
***November 11, 1918
armistice is signed ended the fighting on the Western Front
***1919
Versailles Peace Conference
1898
Omdurman, Britain’s “White Man’s Burden” or France’s “Civilizing Mission”
1898
The Fabian Socialists agitate
1899-1902
Boer War in South Africa between Dutch settlers and British Army
1903
Emmaline Pankhurst challenges the Victorian Era’s cult of domesticity by forming a suffragette campaign
1904-05
Russo—Japanese War
***1905
“Bloody Sunday” the First Russian Revolution in Response to the Russo-Japanese Defeat
1912 and 1913
Balkans Wars shows the instability of the region known as the “powder keg” of Europe
***June 28, 1914
A member of the Pan-Serbian Gavrilo Princip of the “Black Hand” killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Habsburg Dynasty
***February 1917
Czar is overthrown and replaced by a provisional government
Nov. 1917
Provisional government under Kerensky toppled by Lenin and Trotsky and the Bolsheviks in the “Ten Days Which Shook the World”—the October Revolution
***1917—1921
Civil War between the Reds and Whites in Russia
***On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918
the armistice ending hostilities is signed in a train car
January 1919
Spartacist Revolt of German communists in Germany led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg is brutally crushed by the Weimar government
1920
U.S. rejects the Versailles Treaty thus making the League of Nations rather impotent
***1922-1928
The New Economic Policy was launched by Lenin