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Question 1

Continental System

Answer 1

• renews economic warfare against england, prohibits continental trade
• USA angry, leads to war of 1812

Question 2

The Concordat

Answer 2

• catholic church recognized as power of France

- Napoleon leader, changes legal system, makes Napoleonic Code

Question 3

Battle of Austerlitz

Answer 3

• December 2, 1805
• Napoleon has to defeat England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia
• defeats Russia and Austria

Question 4

Eli Whitney

Answer 4

-invented the cotton gin in 1793

Question 5

Charles Dickens

Answer 5

• realist

- wrote about IR through fiction

Question 6

James Watt

Answer 6

• created and improved steam-powered engine

- changes IR and moving water

Question 7

Laissez-faire

Answer 7

• belief that gv’nt should keep their hands off people’s money
• to improve society and more $

Question 8

Iron Law of Wages

Answer 8

• David Ricardo

- demand for product should dictate how workers are paid, no minimum wage

Question 9

Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 9

• women were intellectual and moral equal to men

- wives and mothers should be given educational preference

Question 10

Guiseppe Mazzini

Answer 10

• led Italian Revolution

- creates nationalist group: Young Italy

Question 11

Weltpolitik

Answer 11

• cause of wwi

- Wilhelm ii wanted germany to rule the world

Question 12

Revolution of 1848

Answer 12

• led by Mazzini and Young Italians, unsuccessful

- no more unification hope, Frankfurt Assembly created

Question 13

Circle Syndrome

Answer 13

• Germany had no treaties with other countries
• Germany’s encirclement paranoia of war
• makes war more likely, cause

Question 14

Pan-Slavism

Answer 14

• balkan tension increased

- war of balkans = Russian power and support for independence

Question 15

George Boulanger

Answer 15

• led Revanchism movement (German hate)
• tried to overthrow weak gv’nt, found guilty
• was not executed b/c of fear

Question 16

Lusitania

Answer 16

• Friday, May 7, 1915
• german u-boat attack, luxury ship sank
• american neutrality?? war with germany??

Question 17

No man’s land

Answer 17

• area between trenches

- how important is land if it causes death?

Question 18

plan 17

Answer 18

• France’s plan to beat germany

- based on elan vitale (will to win)

Question 19

april theses

Answer 19

• 1917
• Germans want 1 front war, Lenin needed
• speech by Lenin, demands land, peace and food

Question 20

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 20

• March 3, 1918
• Lenin surrenders and signs w/ germany
• germany takes land and money

Question 21

The Aurora (Red October)

Answer 21

• 1916
• Russia battleships captured by bolsheviks
• Kerensky gives up gv’nt
• 3 diff. gvnts in a year: tzar, kerensky, and lenin

Question 22

Fascism

Answer 22

4 characteristics (Never Make Germany Angry):

• Nationalism (strict, heightened)
• Military dicatorship
• Glorification of War
• Anti-communism (new)

Question 23

Dawes Plan

Answer 23

• 1924
• inflation in Germany, US helps
• prevents new war

Question 24

Soviet-Nazi Non-Agression Pact

Answer 24

• August 23, 1939
• Gemany and Russia promise no fight
• England tries to ally w/ Russia, says no b/c of land

Question 25

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 25

• December 16, 1944 - January 25, 1945
• Hitler’s plan to get US involved
• canceled by Tank Defense

Question 26

Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer

Answer 26

• one people, one empire, one ruler

- Hitler nationalistic philosophy

Question 27

Sitzkrieg

Answer 27

• September 3, 1939 - May 10, 1940

- slow war, hitler “stops war”