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The Enlightenment

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A cultural movement in the 18th century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith

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Natural Rights

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  • Life, Liberty, and Property
  • Cannot be restricted by human laws (inalienable rights)
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Separation of Powers

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Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of government all share equal power

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Causes of the French Revolution

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-France is experiencing a financial crisis
-Third estate has to pay too many taxes
-Power is unevenly distributed
-Rise in Enlightenment ideas

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Committee of Public Safety

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Was developed to defend France against foreign enemies during the Revolution

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Haitian Revolution

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-Caused by brutal slavery, spreading of enlightenment ideas from France to Haiti, and French colonization

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Napoleon/Napoleonic Code

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Napoleonic code:
- all male citizens equal under the law
- protects wealth and private property
- women related back to secondary status
-press and political freedoms are limited

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Congress of Vienna

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  • Reinstates monarchies after Napoleon’s downfall
  • Reorganizes Europe
  • How to balance powers in Europe
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Nationalism

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Feeling of pride and devotion to one’s country

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Imperialism

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extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force

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Industrialization

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the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale

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Social Darwinism

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the idea that some people are more successful/powerful in a society because they are innately better

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Berlin Conference

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when European countries planned to discuss how to divide up Africa

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Causes of WW1

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M: militarism
A: alliances
N: nationalism
I: imperialism
A: assasination

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Treaty of Versailles

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Goal: severely punish Germany
- demilitarization
- reparations
- loss of territory

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Weimar Republic

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Name of Germany during the interwar years
- Democratic

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Adolf Hitler

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Leader of the Nazi party

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Rise of the Nazi Party

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  • Night of Long Knives
  • Nuremberg Laws
  • Kristallnacht
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Totalitarianism

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a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

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Appeasement

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Diplomatic policy of making
political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict

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Antisemitism/Holocaust

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  • Ghettos
  • Nuremberg laws
  • Kristallnacht
  • The Final Solution (how the nazis were going to exterminate Jews)
  • Concentration/death camps
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Causes of the Russian Revolution

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  • Economic problems
  • Bolsheviks
  • Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II
  • October Rev.
  • Famine
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Effects of Industrialization

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  • Increases employment opportunities
  • Creates middle class
  • Lessens wage gap
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Capitalism

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an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit

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Socialism

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a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole

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Communism

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a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs

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Stalin’s 5 Year Plans

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  • Goal was to turn Russia into a global superpower
  • Change from agricultural economy –> industrial economy
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Containment

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Containment of communism
(us doesn’t want communism to spread)

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Spheres of Influence

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a territory or region where an external group or institution holds power or authority in a foreign territory

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Boxer Rebellion

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  • Poor peasants/workers resented foreigners’ special privileges + Chinese Christians for adopting a foreign faith
  • Created the Society of Righteous & Harmonious Fists= Boxers
    results:
  • Strong sense of nationalism
  • China must resist more foreign intervention
  • Government must respond to their needs
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Mao Zedong

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Mao Zedong = one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party
- Believed he could bring revolution to a rural country, where the peasants could be the true revolutionaries

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Cultural Revolution

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  • Goal: Cleanse China of anti-revolutionary influences
  • Purge of the Four Olds: Old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas
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The Great Leap Forward

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Mao’s 5 year plan:
- Change China from a predominantly agrarian society to a modern,
industrial society –> IMPOSSIBLE IN TIME FRAME
- Moved millions into communes; all work shared
- Farming cooperatives or small manufacturing
- Daily tasks collectivized (e.g. cooking, childcare)

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Tiananmen Square Protests

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  • Started April 1989
  • <100,000 occupy Tiananmen Sq
  • Protest for democracy
  • Gained widespread support
  • Many called for Deng Xiaoping to resign
  • Deng declared martial law