world history Flashcards

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Enlightenment

Enlightened Thinkers

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15/1600’s new way of thinking away from bible/religion & thinking themselves

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Voltaire

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Freedom of speech

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Constitutional monarchy

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King has to obey law & work w/ constitution

1st England, Magna Carta King John

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Newton

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Universal law of gravitation

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Copernicus

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heliocentric

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Napoleon’s biggest defeat & last battle

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Russia & Waterloo

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Napoleon never beat this country but tried to blockade them

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England

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Biggest fundamental cause of Fall of the Bastille

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Unfair voting (Estates General)
Economy (Debt)
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2 countries in Opium War

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China & GB

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Fall of the Bastille

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Beginning of French Rev.

Hated prison fortress

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1st industry

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Textile (clothes)

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5 factors needed to establish a strong industry

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Entrepreneurship, labor, land, capital, technology

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Urbanization

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Moving from the country to the city

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GB natural resources:

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Water, iron oar, coal

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Industrial world

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Class struggle, about $, turn communist

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All ppl from industrial world came from

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Have & have nots
Haves=Bourgeoisie
Have nots=Proletariats

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Carl Marx

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Communist

Said have & have nots

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Adam Smith

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Wealth of Nations

Competing w/ Marx-capitalism, compete w/ self interest, to make as much $ as possible

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Berlin Conference

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Europe ÷d Africa unfairly & agree not to fight w/ each other

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Open Door Policy

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US forced China to open ports

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Treaty of Kanagawa

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Japan opened up ports to the rest of the world started w/ US b/c of Matthew Perry

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Industrial Rev. negative aspect

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Disease

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Total war

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Whole country involved not just soldiers

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“Jewel of the Crown”

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India, valuable to GB, most profitable/income, most valuable colony, carry resources

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Tiananmen Square
Chinese gov fired on unarmed citizens protesting for better gov & edu
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Mao Zhedong
Leader of communist China in 1949
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Cultural Rev.
Implemented by Mao | Eliminated ppl who used their minds & disliked the teachers
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki
1st Hiroshima 2nd Nagasaki
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Why were India & Pakistan split?
Religion
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Nobles were forced to sign the Declaration of Rights of Man during French Rev., what did it do?
Gave rights to the peasants, documents signed by the nobles saying there are no more noble privileges in France
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Locke
Life, liberty, property through reason
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Nationalism
Extreme pride for country could be bad b/c it could turn violent
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Guillotine
Killing machine of Jacobins made by doctor to make painless, radical
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Difference between a democracy & a fascist gov.?
Democracy more freedoms than fascist
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Impact of steam engine
Boats, trains, & factories
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Louis16th escape raise army come back take over country again using violence to return to the way things used to be
Reactionary
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Battle of Normandy/D-Day
Allies take back France
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City defeated that marked the end of WWII
Berlin
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"Crimes against humanity" led to Nuremberg trials
Holocaust
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Stalingrad
Most important battle, Germans lost to SU
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B4 WWII Italy, Germany, SU have in common
Totalitarian leadership
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What caused GB & France to declare war on Germany?
Invasion of Polandhttps://www.brainscape.com/decks/924104/cards/quick_new_card
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Mussolini lead his fascist black troops when he marched where?
Rome
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Benefited from hated Versailles treaty used ppl's anger from WWI hated Weimar Republic
Hitler
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Stalin defeated who to become the leader of the SU?
Trotsky
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Political Spectrum order
radical, liberal, moderate, conservative, reactionary | left=future right=past outside=violent inside=compromise
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radical
``` republic Jacobins, Marat, Robespierre, Danton left wing -overthrow/start over -opposes king/monarchy -change in gov -power to control ppl -violence ```
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liberal
Lafayette (noble write Dec of Man) Talleyrand (clergy) -more solutions to prob -gradual democratic change
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moderate
constitutional monarchy Madame Roland, Girondists, Charlotte Corday -centrists -compromise -some gov changes but not like liberal or radical -no extreme views
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conservative
``` limited monarchy nobles, clergy -likes the way it is; remain the same -few changes -keep "status quo" ```
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reactionary
``` absolute monarchy nobles, clergy divine right -return to past -opposes all change -violence ```
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Rousseau
every1 has inalienable rights that cant be taken away
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Hobbes
every1 us selfish but = so the monarch tells ppl what to do
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Napoleon overthrows the gov
Coup d'etat
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"Divine Right" theory
idea that when you became king God put you there so if you go against the king it's like going against God
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Napoleonic Code
comprehensive system of laws used throughout Europe
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Causes of WWI
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
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Mandates
British (Iraq & Palestine) | France (Syria & Lebanon)
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Bacon
scientific method
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Reign of Terror leadership
Robespierre (Jacobins)
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Napoleon's reforms
Bank, edu, get rid of corruption in the government
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How Industrial Rev. affect imperialism?
Countries needed raw materials for factories so they went to get them (ex:Africa)
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Absolute ruler def. & actions taken to increase power
Controls everything! (military, political,religion, social) Increase taxes & decrease power of nobles & church
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Causes of French Revolution
Estates general voting, debt, enlightenment thinkers, U.S Revolution
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Reign of terror groups used to advance their goals
Peasants
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King names
Henry, Louis, Philip, M?
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Results of French Revolution
Countries around Europe are scared they're going to have a rev. too, monarch gone
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Imperialism def. & example
When a stronger country takes over/expands weaker countries ex: when Europe ÷d Africa
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Relationship between Agricultural & Industrial Rev.
+food=+ppl to work in factories