Milos #1 Flashcards
(28 cards)
Louis XVL
Married marie antvinett:
built versailles
French Revolution
Killed king and queen :
Ended the old regime
American Independance
Treaty that ended the war :
Great Britain looked as America as a independent nation
Napolean Bonaparte
French general:
Conquered much of Europe
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Led the slaves revolution in Haiti:
Haiti won independence in 1804
Simon Bolivar
A venezulea general:
Venezuela gained indpendence in 1811
Dom Pedro
Son of Dom Juan:
Gained brazil’s independence peacefull
Nationalism
A felling of loyality for ones own land & people:
belief that ones greatest loyality
Imperialism
A policy that describes how a empire ruled and conquered other lands:
Britain ruled some lands directly and governed others indirectly
Berlin Conference
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Thomas Edison
Greatest American inventor:
Invented electricity
Alexander G. Bell
A scot who emigrated to the US:
Invented the telephone
G. Marconi
Itialian inventor:
Invented the radio
Karl Marx
father of communism:
Wrote “communist manifiesto”
Charles Darwin
British scientist:
wrote “origin of species”
Sigmund Frued
father of psychology:
from vienna
Slavic Groups
Serbia, Slovia , Czech :
Wanted to form own country
Archduke Ferdinand
Heir to the throne of Austrie-hungary:
Was assinated during a visit to Bosnia
Gavrilou Princip
A serbian student who assinated Archduk:
Assination marked the beginning of world war I
Panama Canal
Connectd Atlantic & Pacific oceans:
America finshed it
Triple Alliance
Formed by Austria/Hungary,Germany, Italy,Bulgaria,and the Ottoman Turks
Triple Entant
Formed by Russia,Great Britain,Serbia,France:
U Boats
German Submarines:
Broke the rules of warfare by attacking unarmed ships
lusitania
British Passenger Liner:
Sunk by a German U Boat in 1915
