Exam Review Flashcards
Gamal Abdul Nasser
Got his country’s independence and created the Suez Canal
Deng Xiaoping
Kept Communism in China, but allowed for some market economy.
Wilhelm II
German Leader during WWI
Nicholas II
was incompetent as a leader and helped led to the Revolution.
Pol Pot
Prime Minister in Cambodia killed artists, former Gov’t leaders, and basically anyone educated.
Toussaint L’ Overture
Led a slave revolt in Haiti, and was a leader in the independence movement.
Simon Bolivar
Fought against the French RUle in South America. He was a leader in the Columbian fight for independence.
Henry VIII
Started the Protestant idea by separating from the Church.
John Calvin
Part of the Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
Starting the Protestant Reformation
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
Isaac Newton
Discovered the law of gravity
Galileo
Discovered Craters and rocks on the moon
William Henry
Known for discovering the circulation of blood
John Locke
An enlightenment thinker that is attributed with “life, liberty, and property.”
Montesquieu
Philosopher attributed with the separation of government powers.
Thomas Hobbes
The natural equality of all men.
Voltaire
Freedom of Religion and separation of church and state.
William and Mary
Part of the Glorious Revolution in England
Enlightenment
(this would lead to the American Revolution, the US Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence.)
Industrial Revolution
women and children entered the workforce, women wanted suffrage, public education expanded
Nationalism
National Pride, Economic Competition, and Democratic ideals led to the growth
Congress of Vienna
Changed up the map of Europe
the league of Nations
The US never joined it
Cold War
Competition over political influence of Capitalism and Communism
Taiwan
A small island off of China where the Chinese Nationalists escaped to after the Civil War in China.
Containment
Not allowing any more territories to fall communist.
Weak Leadership
led to the Founding of the French Republic, which led to the RIse of Napoleon.
Songhai African
Empire leaders converted to Islam, and their cities were major trade routes to foreign nations.
Kongo African
Empire leaders converted to Christianity because of Portuguese Missionaries.
African countries
fought for independence after WWII based on the UN Charter.
During the MacArthur Administration
after WWII the US helped rebuild the Capitalist half of Germany and helped rebuild Japan.
Indian Nationalist Party and Boxer Rebellion
were responses to imperialism in Europe.
The Hardest parts about India gaining their independence
was due to the ethnic and religious differences among those in India
Prior to the independence of India
the small Island SE of India was known as Ceylon.
Causes of WWII
were aggressive totalitarian nations, the weakness in the Treaty of Versailles, the spread of nationalism in Europe, and the huge international depression.
Genocides
Holocaust (caused by a belief in a Master Race, totalitarianism, and antisemitism)
Muslims and Croats
by Bosnian Serbs
Armenians
by the Ottoman Empire
Darfur
by Sudanese.
