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Ideas of Hobbes:

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  • Born with natural right, wrote Leviathan
  • right to life, proposed social contract
  • Powerful gov’t to control the people
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Ideas of Locke:

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  • Believed Life, Liberty Property
    New gov’t= protects people from gov’t
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Ideas of Voltaire

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  • People should be able to state greivences
    New Gov’t= publically state grievances, promoted certain liberties
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Ideas of MonTesquieu:

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  • Wanted fair trial
  • Promoted different structure
    New gov’t= promoted gov’t structure
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Ideas of Rousseau:

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  • Didn’t want too many gov’t laws
    New gov’t=people have power
  • democracy
  • gov’t shouldn’t have much power
  • Gov’t and relig. can ruin us
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How did enlightenment philosophers affect the American Revolution

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Positively impacting the constitution and giving some power to the people while at the same time the gov’t

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American revolutions causes and events

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Causes: British actions bother the gov’t, rights weren’t respected
Events: Started fighting (Lex.+conc.), drafted the DOI, war of independence lasts for years,Treaty of Paris ends teh war

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FRENCH REVOLUTION: Tennis court oath, storming the Bastille, march on versailles, reign of terror, rise of napoleon

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Tennis Court Oath: Sparked French rev. founding act of French dem.
Storming the Bastille: Civs. stormed
Reign of terror: The period from 1793 to 1794 CE
Rise of Napoleon: disbanded the Holy Roman Empire, Austria resisted Napoleon

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Agrarianism

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a social and political philosophy that promotes subsistence agriculture, family farming, widespread property ownership, and political decentralization

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Appeasement

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  • giving people what they want to prevent them from harming you or being angry with you
    ex. surrounding countries during WWII
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Armistice

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Cease fire

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Attrition

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  • Each side loses soldiers/ resources hoping to outlast the other
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Autonomy

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Right to self govern

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Triple alliance

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

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Allied Powers

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Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union

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Triple Entente

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Great Britain, France, and Russia

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Interchangeable parts

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Parts that are replaceable

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Gulag

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a system of Soviet labour camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons.

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Iron Curtain

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Also known as the Berlin wall that Germany made around their division of Berlin

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John Locke

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  • Natural rights, L,L,P
  • if the gov’t cant protect our rights, we have a right to get new gov’t
  • right to rebel
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Joeseph Stalin

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  • Soviet union
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July crisis

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  • Serb. didnt reject ultimatum, agreed to everything but dem. #6.
  • AH declared war on serb. anyway
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July ultimatum

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Austria-Hungry gave an ultimatum to serbia that Austria-Hungry thought was very harsh. Serbia was able to meet all but one tiny demand

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Karl marx

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His theories that led to the development of Marxism

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Lassiez-faire economics

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Free market economy: unregulated exchange of goods and services

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Benito Mussolini

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  • Italian leader, founder of fascism in Italy
  • Adolf Hitler followed after his ideas
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Balkan “powder keg”

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  • Balkan groups had rivalries with their neighbors
  • tensions w/ serbia and ottomans grew
  • AH pledged to support bulgaria
  • the huge conflict led to balkan powder keg ready to blow
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Baltic states

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Estonia, Lativa, Lithuania

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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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Central powers

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German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria

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Divine right of kings

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Beleif that god puts kings in power –> justifies absolutism

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Land lease act

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US equipment to other countries against Hitler and pay them back later

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Leviatan

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Thomas Hobbes wrote this book

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Liberal

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demanded equal rights, democracy

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Lusitiania

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Germany sinked this boat

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Maginot line

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French defense line between the two wars on the border of Germany

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Marshall plan

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industrialization of Europe

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Maxamilien Robespierre

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Oversaw reign of terror. He was overthrown and arrested by the National Convention.

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Meiji restoration

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Modernizing of Japan

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nationalism

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advocacy of or support for the political independence of a particular nation or people.

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operation overlord

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  • delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France.
  • Airmen enabled its success by breaking the Luftwaffe, crippling enemy transportation, gathering intelligence, and directly supporting Allied ground forces.
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paternalism

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the policy or practice on the part of people in positions of authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in the subordinates’ supposed best interest.

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peter the great

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  • Led reforms to Westernize Russia
  • victories over Ottoman Empire, kingdom of sweeden
  • victories led to territorial gains
44
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reign of terror

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The period from 1793 to 1794 CE is known as the Reign of Terror.

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revolutions of 1848

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REVIEW THE PACKET, HUGE SHIT ON THIS

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second world

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Included Soviet union, Germany, etc.

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self determination

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Doesn’t need to rely on other countries

48
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social contract

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Most important book written by Jean-Jaques Rousseau

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spheres of influence

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a country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.

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third reich

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Nazi term for Germany and its regime during the period of Nazi reign, from 1933 to 1945.

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truman doctrine

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The United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

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urbanization

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Many people leaving countryside for big cities

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warsaw pact

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the eight-member countries of the Warsaw Pact pledged the mutual defense of any member who would be attacked; relations among the treaty signatories were based upon mutual non-intervention in the internal affairs of the member countries,

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weimar republic

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Political turmoil and violence, economic hardship, and also new social freedoms and vibrant artistic movements characterized the complex Weimar period

55
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yalta conference

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FDR, Churchill and Stalin decided to split Germany and Berlin into Quadrants. Allies would rebuild their section, allies would stay until Germany is allowed to govern itself again

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Enclosure

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Rich land owners take lands from communities

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1765:
1776:
1789:
1815:
1848:
1868:
1871:
1914-1918:
1939-1949:
1991:

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1765:James watt invents his steam train
1776:Declaration of Independence
1789:French revolution begins
1815:Napoleon kicked out of europe
1848: Revolution of 1848
1868: Meiji restoration in Japan
1871: Germany becomes a unified country
1914-1918: World War I
1939-1949: World War II
1991: End of the cold war

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Bolshevik Revolution

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poor living conditions, working class vs. monarchs overthrew tsar

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Big Three

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Stalin, Churchill, FDR

60
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Who wrote the fourteen points?

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  • Woodrow Wilson
  • He wanted to avoid more war
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Napoleon

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  • attended mil. acad.
  • Classmates were wealthier
  • Napoleon in charge of artillery –> NC broke and he was promoted
  • Effects: Louisiana purchase, abolished slavery, napoleonic code, invasion of russia became a distaster
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First world

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U.S, France, Germany, etc.

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Third world

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the developing world, the former colonies of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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Treaty of Paris

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  • Signed in 1783, it ended the American Revolution
  • Britain rec. US indep.
  • Brit. gave up land east of mis. Riv.
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Congress of Vienna

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  • Wanted to secure the legitimacy of monarchs and former borders
  • agreed to use militaries to support each other
  • Created a balance of power
  • all former families returned to their throne
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Potsdam conference

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Truman and Stalin meet to discuss WWII

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Risorgimento

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Reunification of Italy

68
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State of Nature

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What people are like w/o political/social influence

69
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V-E Day

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Victory in Europe

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V-J Day

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Victory over Japan

71
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Two trasties on Government

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Book by John Locke

Modern Civilization (2 decks)

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