Age Of Reveolutions: forcible overthrow of a government Flashcards
_ war
Royalist should support monarchy
Parliamentarians support republic
English civil war
Royalist succumb
Precursor to end of feudal order
Food shortages, taxation, Enlightenment
Caused:
French Revolution
Precursor to French constitution
Written to ensure liberty and equality
Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen
Unpopular French queen - Austrian origin
Nobility disconnection with abuse of people
Monarch abolished
Marie Antoinette
Fear of counterrevolution
Thousands executed by guillotine
Reign of terror
Committee for public safety
Wars btwn France and European powers -resulting in new balance of power in Europe
Napoleonic wars
Dominated German speaking states
Led efforts against napoleon
Prussia
Balance of power agreed upon in Europe - 1st peace conference
1815
Congress of Vienna
Consolidated German states of Prussia into German empir
Otto von Bismarck
Determined which parts of Africa would be controlled by European powers
1884 Berlin conference
Oppression in South Africa
People separated by race in public places
Apartheid
Free market developed by _
Adam Smith
_ based on heavy industry, railroads and weapons
_ began in Europe, mechanization of agriculture, transportation, emergence of factories
Second industrial revolution
Industrial revolution
Workers should own the means of production and benefit from profits from their labor
Developed by _ and _
Socialism
Karl Marx and friedrich Engels - wrote communist manifesto
Lenin supported _
Communism and dictatorship = Soviet Union
