Spring Final Flashcards

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3 vows taken by a monk

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chastity
obedience
poverty

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5 pillars of Islam

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  • faith in the one god Allah and his prophet Mohammed
  • alms to the needy
  • fasting during sunlight hours of Ramadan
  • pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime
  • prayer five times daily
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three major characteristics of the ideal Renaissance man

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artist
scholar
athlete

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3 main ideas behind Luther’s teachings

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justification by faith alone, not works
Bible is the only authority (Scripture, not traditions)
priesthood of all believers (access through Christ alone, not priests)

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5 tenets of Calvinism

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total depravity
unconditional election
limited atonement
irresistible grace
perseverance of the saints
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the eastern church became known as the ________ church

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orthodox

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___ preserved the knowledge of Ancient Greece and Rome in the early Middle Ages by copying manuscripts

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monasteries

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Renaissance literally means (or is translated) ______

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rebirth

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became a missionary to the Irish after being enslaved in Ireland as a youth

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Patrick

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the founder of the Muslim faith and the prophet of Allah

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Mohammed

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created a rule for monastic life

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Benedict

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defeated Muslim invaders at Tours and ended the Muslim march through Spain

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Charles Martel

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the Muslim “struggle for the faith” often translated holy war

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jihad

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organized the Frankish land into countries and revived learning and literacy
crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 AD

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Charlemagne

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“The Conqueror”
won the Battle of Hastings to win the English crown
distributed the lands he won to his Norman supporters and to the church

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William I

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wrote SUMMA THEOLOGICA in an attempt to ground the Christian faith in Aristotelian logic

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Thomas Aquinas

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an association of people who worked at the same occupation

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guild

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a gathering of scholars dedicated to passing on knowledge

began in Europe in the 1100s

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university

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the practice of buying and selling church offices

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Simony

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a ceremony performed by a feudal lord or king which granted an individual a church office

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lay investiture

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Renaissance scholars who studied the art and literature of Ancient Greece and Rome

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Humanists

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the Italian who crafted a poetic form known as the sonnet

climbed Mount Ventoux for pleasure

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Francisco Petrarch

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the Italian sculptor who may be best known for his painting in the Sistine Chapel “The Last Judgment”

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Michelangelo

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controlled the politics of Florence through its support of the arts and public works

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Medici family

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wrote THE DIVINE COMEDY in the vernacular - Italian
Dante Alighieri
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the Italian artist painted frescoes with lifelike figures
Giotto di Bondone
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the ideal Renaissance man | an inventor, an artist, and a scientist who kept numerous notebooks filled with thoughts and sketches
Leonardo DaVinci
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wrote THE PRINCE to advise rulers on how to retain political power
Niccolo Machiavelli
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opened a school for navigators in Portugal and sponsored voyages along the west coast of Africa
Prince Henry
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the first European to reach the southern tip of Africa, which his king named "Cape of Good Hope"
Bartholomeu Dias
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led the first expedition to sail around Africa to India, giving Portugal a sea route to the East
Vasco de Gama
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attempted to sail west to reach the Far East | on his first voyage he first landed on San Salvador and claimed it for Spain
Christopher Columbus
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crossed what is now Panama to claim the Pacific Ocean for Spain
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
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led the first voyage around the world in 1519 | killed in the Philippines
Ferdinand Magellan
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became the second man to circumnavigate the globe | English sailor
Francis Drake
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explored North America for the English and the Dutch
Henry Hudson
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the "morning star" of the Protestant Reformation | an English cleric who called on the church to give up her earthly possessions
John Wycliffe
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a Bohemian priest who preached against the immorality of the church was tried for heresy and burned at the stake in 1412
Jan Hus
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The Reformation began in the area known today as _____
Germany
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the Christian humanist from Holland who wrote IN PRAISE OF FOLLY and also prepared the first printing of the Greek New Testament
Desiderius Erasmus
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the Christian humanist from England who wrote UTOPIA and was later executed by the king
Thomas More
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the greatest English playwright of all time
William Shakespeare
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credited with inventing the moveable-type printing press
Johannes Gutenberg
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a letter which provides forgiveness for certain sins
indulgence
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considered the beginning of the Reformation
the nailing of the 95 Theses on the church door at Wittenburg
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Martin Luther was protesting the sale of indulgences by the friar -----
Johan Tetzel
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the key concept in Luther's theology is _____
justification by faith
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The leader of the Swiss Reformation in Zurich was _____
Ulrich Zwingli
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the nature of the _____ separated the Lutheran and the Swiss Reformations at the Marburg Colloquy
Eucharist
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broke with the Catholic Church to form the Church of England primarily in order to divorce Catherine of Aragon
Henry VIII
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In 1533 Henry secretly married ____ who later gave birth to another daughter, Elizabeth
Anne Boleyn
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John Calvin wrote _______, a book which became very influential in Protestant thinking
Institutes of the Christian Religion
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the doctrine that, since the beginning of time, God has called the "elect" to salvation
Predestination
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a government controlled by church leaders
theocracy
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the Holy Roman Emperor who issued the Edict of Worms but could not capture Luther
Charles V
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studied theology under Calvin | later returned to Scotland and led the Presbyterian church
John Knox
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founded the Jesuit order in 1534 and established missions, schools, and universities around the world
Ignatius of Loyola
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the global exchange of plants, animals, and disease between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres
Columbian Exchange
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investors buy shares of stock in order to share the profits
joint-stock company
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Spanish officials who ruled over a large colonial area in the king's name
viceroys
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conquered the Aztecs of central Mexico
Hernando Cortes
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conquered the Incas of Peru
Francisco Pizarro
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the ruler of the Aztecs
Moctezuma
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a priest who objected to the treatment of Native Americans by the Spanish government
Bartolome de las Casas
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first postulated the heliocentric theory in ON THE REVOLUTIONS OF THE HEAVENLY SPHERES
Nicholas Copernicus
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formulated the three laws of planetary motion
Johannes Kepler
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built a telescope and wrote THE STARRY MESSENGER to support the heliocentric theory later forced to recant
Galileo Galilei
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published ON THE WORKINGS OF THE HUMAN BODY
Andreas Vesalius
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a French philosopher who argued that everything should be doubted until it could be proven by reason
Rene Descartes
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demonstrated that the heart acts as a pump to circulate blood
William Harvey
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the Catholic teaching that the bread of the Eucharist is transformed into Jesus' body
transubstantiation
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refused to fight against its persecutors
Radical Reformers or Anabaptists
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The Peace of Augsburg recognized the existence of the _____ Church within formerly Catholic lands
Lutheran
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became known as the Episcopalian Church in the US
Anglican Church
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began in Zurich and Geneva | led to the Presbyterian church in Scotland and the US
the Reformed Church
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the Radical Reformers baptized only ______ | they believed in a complete _______ of church and state
believers | separation
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the first to be called "Protestants"
the Lutheran movement
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3 motivations for exploring the New World
gold God glory
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the 3 estates in pre-Revolutionary France
clergy nobility commoners - bourgeoise, peasants
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5 characteristics of the Enlightenment
``` reason nature - orderly happiness progress liberty ```
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slogan of the American Revolution
no taxation without representation
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slogan of the French Revolution
liberty, equality, fraternity
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Which revolution wanted to destroy society?
French
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Which revolution wished to reform society?
American
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Which revolution was based on Christian foundations?
American
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which revolution was avowedly atheistic?
French
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Which revolution was utopian and believed in the perfectibility of humans?
France
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Which revolution believed humans were prone to evil?
American
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Which revolution gave rise to even further violence?
French
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Which revolution quickly established a stable government?
American
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the Catholic ruler of Spain who attempted to defeat both the Muslim Ottoman Turks and the English and Dutch Protestants in battle
Philip II
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wrote DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA in order to ridicule the medieval ideal of chivalry
Miguel de Cervantes
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made England the greatest naval power in the world and won popular support for Elizabeth
the defeat of the Spanish Armada
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ruled France through her sons | ordered the St. Bartholomew Day Massacre of French Protestants
Catherine de Medici
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became a Catholic in order to rule France Paris is worth a mass Issued the Edict of Nantes guaranteeing French Protestants the right to construct a building for worship in every city except Paris
Henry IV
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placed great emphasis on reason using mathematics and logic to prove basic truths I think, therefore I am
Rene Descartes
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led England in the via media for 46 years
Elizabeth 1
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plotted against her cousin, the English queen, and was later beheaded
Mary Stuart Queen of Scots
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perhaps the greatest author of all time | wrote such works as HAMLET, OTHELLO, and ROMEO AND JULIET
William Shakespeare
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wrote LEVIATHAN | believed that, because humans were naturally evil, an absolute monarchy was the best form of government
Thomas Hobbes
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wrote two TREATISES ON GOVERNMENT to explain in what circumstances individuals might be justified in rebelling against their government believed government must provide a framework which guaranteed one's life, liberty, and property
John Locke
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bold English pirates who raided Spanish shipping
sea dogs
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the English noblemen who remained loyal to Charles I during the English Civil War
Cavaliers/Royalists
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the Puritan supporters of the Parliament during the English Civil War
Roundheads
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French Calvinists
Hugenots
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the theory that royal power came from God
divine right of kings
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an unwritten agreement between government and human society to maintain peace, safety, and order by giving up certain rights
social contract
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an economic system which operates without governmental interference
laissez-faire
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a forced transfer of military or political power
coup d-etat
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the first Stuart king of England and a vocal proponent of divine right directed an English translation of the Bible
James I
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led the royal forces during the English Civil War | later captured, tried, found guilty of treason, and beheaded
Charles I
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led the forces who were loyal to the Parliament during the English Civil War named Lord Protector of the Commonwealth
Oliver Cromwell
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the "Merry Monarch" who led England during the Restoration | secretly received funds from Louis XIV of France
Charles II
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the king of England for only three years | after the birth of his son, he was forced to flee to France
James II
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enthroned by the Glorious Revolution | in order to rule as sovereigns, they signed a Bill of Rights guaranteeing the English people certain rights
William and Mary
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the "terrible" who killed thousands in Novgorod and eventually killed his own son
Ivan IV
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the first Czar to travel in Western Europe | worked to westernize Russia
Peter I the Great
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led the nation of Prussia during this time
Hohenzollerns family
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led the nation of Austria-Hungary
Hapsburg family
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the king of Prussia who assumed the title "first servant" but refused to end serfdom or torture
Frederick II
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the princess made queen of Austria-Hungary by the Pragmatic Sanction was attacked by Prussia
Maria Theresa
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in order to pay for the French and Indian war, the British decided to
tax the American colonies
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the location of the "shot heard 'round the world" which began the American Revolution
Lexington
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this American victory allowed Benjamin Franklin to gain help from the French
Saratoga
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the victory at ______ over Lord Cornwallis ended the American Revolution
Yorktown
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penned the US Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
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the first written plan of government for the United States
Articles of Confederation
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became known as the Sun King | became king at age 5
Louis XIV
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the home to French kings during the 1700s
Versailles
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the greatest Baroque composer | wrote fugues, counterpoint, etc. to the glory of God
J. S. Bach
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mocked French society and culture in plays, poetry, novels, essays, over 20,000 letters and over 2000 books and pamphlets
Voltaire
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believed that society corrupted people wrote THE SOCIAL CONTRACT Man is born free, but everywhere is in chains
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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led the National Assembly (and the Committee of Public Safety) during the Reign of Terror
Maximilian Robespierre
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brought together astronomy, physics, and mathematics | wrote MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
Isaac Newton
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used reason to analyze economic systems in his 1776 book WEALTH OF NATIONS
Adam Smith
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the French philosophe who wrote THE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Denis Diderot
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believed that without an all-powerful government to restrain evil, life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"
Thomas Hobbes
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a powerful symbol of the French Revolution on July 14, 1789
the fall of the Bastille
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the third estate's vow to continue to meet until they had created a constitution
the Tennis Court Oath
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a set of revolutionary ideas adopted by the French National Assembly in 1789
the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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the radicals' attempt to maintain control of the French Revolution through a series of accusations, trials, and executions coordinated by the Committee of Public Safety
Reign of Terror
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When Napoleon was crowned Emperor of France, who placed the crown on his head?
himself
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Napoleon's attempt to destroy Britain's economy through a naval blockade
the Continental System
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In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia, but the Russians' _____ and ____ resulted in his defeat
scorched earth policy | freezing temperatures
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Napoleon was finally defeated at the ______ after his escape from his first exile and the "Hundred Days"
Battle of Waterloo
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3 factors of production
labor capital land
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5 characteristics of the Romantic movement
``` emphasis on passion, emotion focus on the individual love of untamed nature emphasis on the supernatural and grotesque celebration of the past ```
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when landowners purchased additional land and fenced it, throwing small farmers off their land
enclosure movement
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a work stoppage used to force employers to raise wages and improve working conditions
strike
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the belief that government or society should control major industries for the good of all the people
socialism
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the belief that government should won all means of production and control all economic planning
communism
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a rebellion against the machines that were harmful to the commonality
Luddite movement
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someone who risks his money to start a new business planning to make profits
entrepreneur
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an organization formed to represent the interests of workers
labor union
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invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
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the Scottish instrument maker who developed an improved steam engine in 1712
James Watt
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built the CLERMONT, a steamship which operated on the Hudson River between New York City and Albany
Robert Fulton
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wrote DAS KAPITAL to propound "scientific socialism" which would inevitably take the form of a revoltuion
Karl Marx
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disproved the idea of spontaneous generation and demonstrated the link between microbes and disease
Louis Pasteur
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demonstrated that light acts simultaneously as a wave and as a particle developed a special theory of relativity
Albert Einstein
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invented the telephone in 1876
Alexander Graham Bell
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credited with inventing the telegraph in 1837
Samuel Morse
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developed the first usable and practical electric light bulb | he also invented the phonograph
Thomas Edison
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built a line of affordable vehicles called the Model T by using the assembly line
Henry Ford
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used dogs to study conditioned reflexes
Ivan Pavlov
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Marx's primary understanding of history was
a continuing struggle between classes
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published ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES to explain his theory of evolution
Charles Darwin
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began the study of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
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an artistic movement which sought to capture the "general sense" of a scene rather than the exact reproduction through light, vivid color, and motion
Impressionism
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what part of the psyche is on top, and what is it about?
super-ego subconscious rules and values I shouldn't
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what part of the psyche is on the inside
ego our conscious thinking selves I am
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what part of the psyche is on the bottom?
id our subconscious desires and urges I want
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led to mass starvation in Ireland in the mid 1800s
a blight on the potato crop
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falsely accused and convicted in 1894 of giving French military secrets to Germany finally cleared in 1906
Alfred Dreyfuss
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declared the Americas off-limits to further European colonization in 1823
The Monroe Doctrine
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the belief that the US should settle land from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans
Manifest destiny
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Otto von Bismarck's political philosophy to bring about German unification through practical rather than idealistic actions
realpolitick
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Bismark argued that _____ would win Germany, not ---
blood and iron | speeches and ballots
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in 1871 Wilhelm I was proclaimed the first ___ of Germany
kaiser
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the Compromise of 1867, the Bitter Compromise, created the ______ of Austria-Hungary
Dual Monarchy
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the conflict on the coast of the Black Sea between Russia and the combined forces of Great Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia
the Crimean War
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the Ottoman Empire lost territory in the ____ during the 1800s and early 1900s difficult terrain and diverse ethnic groups made it a difficult area to unite
Balkans
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the attack on Father Gapon and a group of protestors outside the Winter Palace by Russian troops
Bloody Sunday
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the process by which one nation or people could control another
Imperialism
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the nation of India was primarily controlled by who during the 1800s?
Great Britain
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was sparked over beef and pork fat used in rifle cartridges
The Sepoy Rebellion
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divided into "spheres of influence" rather than colonies
China
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this Asian nation chose to modernize and was later able to defeat Russia in war
Japan
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an attack on western missionaries and Chinese converts to Christianity in 1899
the Boxer Rebellion
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the term used by Rudyard Kipling to describe the responsibility of spreading Western European civilization to those less cultured than themselves
The White Man's Burden
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the only two African nations to remain independent of European colonization during the 1800s
Liberia and Ethiopia
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4 main causes of World War 1
militarism alliances imperialism nationalism
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4 new weapons used in World War I
airplanes machine guns poison guns submarines/U-boats
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3 results of World War 2
40 million dead Cold War begins US and USSR emerge as superpowers
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information designed to influence people's opinions in order to support the war effort
propaganda
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the area between opposing trenches
no man's land
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the Chinese Communists' journey to find a safe place in western China
the Long March
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the attempt by a government to control all aspects of life
totalitarianism
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the government makes all major decisions about the production of goods in this system
centralized planning
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the deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
genocide
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FDR's program to increase government spending and to create new laws regulating the stock market and banking system
the New Deal
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a system of labor camps in Siberia
gulag
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a totalitarian system based on extreme nationalism | founded by Benito Mussolini
Fascism
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giving in to aggressive demands in order to maintain peace
appeasement
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the "powder keg" with the most visible power struggle during the early 1900s
the Balkans
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the spark which set off World War I
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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After Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, who began mobilizing to support Serbia in case of attack?
Russia
207
the Schlieffen plan called for Germany to
attack France quickly through Belgium
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Germany's quick sweep toward France led who to enter the war?
Great Britain
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saved the city of Paris and halted the German advance in France
the Marne
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died from violence and starvation in the spring of 1915 when Ottoman leaders began removing them from the Caucasus mountain region, claiming that they were assisting the Russian invaders
600,000 Armenians
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caused public opinion in the US in May 1915 to turn against Germany
the sinking of the Lusitania
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a secret message from Germany promising that if Mexico attacked the US, Germany would see that Mexico got back part of the land she lost in the Mexican War
the Zimmerman Note
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ended WWI
the Treaty of Versailles
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The French leader in WWI
Georges Clemenceau
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Clemenceau's goal
buffer zone between Germany and France
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The British leader in WWI
David Lloyd George
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George's goal in WWI
German Navy destroyed
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US's leader in WWI
Woodrow Wilson
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Wilson's goal in WWI
League of Nations and the 14 points
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a self proclaimed holy man and healer who became Czarina Alexandra's personal advisor
Gregory Rasputin
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appointed by the Duma to lead Russia's provisional government in February 1917
Alexander Kerensky
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the leader of the Bolshevik party during the early twentieth century and is considered the father of the Russian Revolution
Vladimir Lenin
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re-elected president of the US in 1916 on the slogan "he kept us out of war"
Woodrow Wilson
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led the Chinese Communist Party during the Chinese Civil War
Mao Zedong
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the Indian leader who practiced non-violence toward living things and civil disobedience to injustice
Mohandas Ghandi
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the US president who favored a minimal government response to the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
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"March on Rome" brought him to power in 1922 | later known as Il Duce
Benito Mussolini
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replaced Lenin as Soviet leader in 1924, | Great Purge eliminated thousands of enemies
Joseph Stalin
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the charismatic leader who became German chancellor in 1933 | became known as the Fuhrer
Adolph Hitler
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Japan attempted to justify her invasion of _____ in 1931 by blowing up a section of Japanese railway and blaming China for it
Manchuria
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Italian forces invaded the African nation of ____ in 1935
Ethiopia
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died when Stalin refused to send food during a famine in 1932
millions of Ukrainians
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while in prison for an unsuccessful coup attempt, Hitler wrote
Mein Kampf | My Struggle
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After annexing Austria, Hitler met with French and British leaders at ________ and they all agreed to allow Germany to annex part of the nation of ______
Munich | Czechoslovakia
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British prime minister who believed that this agreement with Hitler would create "peace in our time"
Neville Chamberlain
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the division of ____ between Germany and the Soviet Union was a secret section of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Poland
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German forces relied on an attack known as the ____ to create panic and quickly overwhelm resistance
blitzkrieg
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some 300,000 Allied troops were rescued in the evacuation of
Dunkirk
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Hitler established special camps in the nation of _____ for the primary purpose of killing large numbers of Jews and destroying their bodies
Poland
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became the new prime minister of Great Britain saying he could bring nothing but blood toil, tears, sweat in May 1940
Winston Churchill
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In the Battle for Britain, the British used a new technology called
radar
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In June 1941, Hitler sent German troops into _______ breaking his promise to Stalin
Soviet Union
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FDR called Pearl Harbor
a day that will live in infamy
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led a small number of American and Filipino troops in a doomed defense of the Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
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the Allied strategy of skipping Japanese strongholds and capturing weaker targets to use as bases for further attacks
Island hopping
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Japanese pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and deliberately crashed into Allied ships
kamikazes
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The Allied invasion of France on the beaches of Normandy
D-Day
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the first to reach Berlin where they discovered that Hitler had taken his own life
the Soviet Union
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decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japanese cities in hopes that it would force Japan to surrender
Harry Truman
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the site of the first atomic bomb dropped in a war setting
Hiroshima
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brought more than 200 former Nazis and military leaders to justice for roles in war crimes
Nuremberg Trials
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the struggle between communism and capitalist democracy that began shortly after the end of WWII
Cold War
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Winston Churchill used the image of a ___ to describe the sharp division between Eastern and Western Europe that resulted from Soviet actions
iron curtain
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The West followed a Cold War policy known as ____ that involved resisting Soviet aggression to limit the spread of communism
containment
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supplied the former German capital with food and fuel in response to a Soviet blockade
Berlin airlift
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responded with troops assembled from seventeen different nations in June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea
United Nations
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However the success of the UN offensive brought in forces from ____ to aid the North Koreans
China
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In October 1957 the Soviets launched the ______, history's first artificial satellite
Sputnik
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this invasion of Cuba in April 1961 failed to topple the government of Fidel Castro and reflected badly on the US government
Bay of Pigs
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In 1962, __ brought the Soviet Union and the US to the brink of nuclear war
the Cuban Missile Crisis
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sought to "de-Stalinize" the Soviet Union, loosening some of the more drastic economic and political restrictions
Nikita Khrushchev
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader from 1985-1991, began an era of ______ , the willingness to discuss Soviet problems openly
glastnost
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In November 1989 Germans spontaneously began tearing down the
Berlin Wall
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The Islamist terrorist organization______ launched an attack on the World Trade Center and the US Pentagon on September 11, 2001
al Qaeda
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an Islamist terrorist group governing Afghanistan
Taliban
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2 new nations - Hindu _____ and East and West ______ for Muslims were created in 1947 by Great Britain
India | Pakistan
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a Catholic nun founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta)
Mother Theresa
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the French lost control of Vietnam at the battle of
Dien Bien Phu
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the Communist leader of the Vietminh, ______ received assistance from both China and the Soviet Union
Ho Chi Minh
270
postulated that if one nation such as Vietnam fell to communism, other nations would quickly follow
domino theory
271
QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN MAO, also known as ______, was a collection of Mao Zedong's writings which became the Chinese Commnists' Bible
Little Red Book
272
Mao's program to create a society in which peasants and physical labor were the ideal as a result, teachers, skilled workers, and artists were tortured
Cultural Revolution
273
ended the pro-democracy protest in the spring of 1989
the Tiananmen Square Massacre
274
the Chinese Guomindang (Nationalist) party moved to the island of ______ after the civil war
Taiwan