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Napoleon, Industrialism and Nationalism, Imperialism, WWI Flashcards

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money available for investment

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capital

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a person interested in finding new business opportunities and new ways to make profits

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entrepreneur

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a method of production in which tasks are done by individuals in their rural homes

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cottage industry

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process in which coke derived from coal is used to burn away impurities in crude iron to produce high quality iron

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puddling

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an economic system based on industrial production or manufacturing

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industrial capitalism

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a system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production

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socialism

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the working class

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proletariat

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a form of government in which a person or small group has absolute power

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dictatorship

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a marxist who rejected the revolutionary approach, believing instead in evolution by democratic means to achieve the goal of socialism

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revisionist

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a political philosophy based on tradition and social stability, favoring obedience to political authority and organized religion

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conservatism

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political philosophy holding that people should be as free as possible from gvt restraint and that civil liberties should be protected

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liberalism

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reliance on military strength

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miltarism

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emperor in a German empire

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kaiser

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popular vote; Napoleon II

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plebiscite

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war fought over Crimean Peninsula between Russia and ottoman empire

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Crimean War

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1870 war fought between France and Prussia over who would be the heir to Spain

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Franco-Prussian war

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Prussian Prime minister in 1816; governed without parliamentary approval, strengthening army; realpolitik

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Otto von Bismarck

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leader of Russia; emancipated serfs

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Czar Alexander II

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meeting to arrange a final peace settlement; Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia

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Congress of Vienna

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raised an army of 1,000 red shirts

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

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Prime minister and King; led the Piedmont and Italy in 1852

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Count Camillo Cavour and King Victor Emanuelle II

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local rulers were allowed to keep their authority and status in a new colonial setting

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indirect rule

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local elites were replaced with Western officials

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direct rule

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extension of a nation’s power over other lands

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imperialism

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Napoleon’s legal code; fought for equality of all citizens before the law; the right of the individual to choose a profession, religious toleration, and the abolition of serfdom and all feudal obligations

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Napoleonic Code

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how one was promoted in Napoleon’s bureaucracy

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ability

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led the combined British and Prussian army

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Duke of Wellington

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where Napoleon was defeated

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Waterloo

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Scottish engineer; improved steam engine

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James Watt

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used to pump water out of mines

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steam engines

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Austrian foreign minister; most influential leader at the meeting in Vienna

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Klemens von Metternich

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Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary

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triple alliance

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France, Britain, and Russia

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triple entente

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the only free states of Africa remaining by 1914

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Liberia and Ethiopia

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independent republicans who believed that white superiority was obtained by God

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Boers

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indian soldiers

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Sepoys

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growing Indian distrust of the British

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Sepoy Mutiny

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in 1885, a small group of Indians met in Bombay

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Indian National Congress

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settled conflicting claims; officially recognized both British and German claims for territory in East Africa

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Berlin Conference

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explored the Congo to the Atlantic Ocean; hired to set up Belgian settlements in the Congo

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Henry Stanley

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only free remaining free state in Southeast Asia

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Thailand

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Boxers were upset by foreign takeover of Chinese lands; roamed the countryside and slaughtered foreign missionaries and Chinese Christians

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Boxer Rebellion

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China should adopt Western technology but keep its Confucian values and institutions

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self-strengthening

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“lifeline to India”

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Suez Canal

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type of mobilization for war that included use of citizens to help the war effort

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total war

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ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause which stirred national hatreds before war

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propaganda

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characterized the war on the Western Front; both sides were kept in the same position for four years

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trench warfare

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both sides fought to outflank the other

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“race to the sea”

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German strategy that involved movement through Belgium and encircling France

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The Western Front

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Serbian terrorist organization that wanted Bosnia to be free of Austria-Hungary and to become part of a large Serbian kingdom

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The Black Hand

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Bosnian Serb; shot the archduke and his wife

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Gavrilo Princip

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heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary

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Franz Ferdinand

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gave Austria-Hungary a blank check promising Germany’s full support if war broke out between Russia and Austria-Hungary

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Kaiser William II

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

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Central Powers

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Russia, Great Britain, and France

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Allied Powers

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