Terms Flashcards
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Abdicate
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Give up or step down from power
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Abolition
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Campaign gains slavery and slave trade
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Absolute monarchy
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Ruler has complete authority over gov and lives of people
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Absolutism
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Belief of complete unrestricted power in gov
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Acid rain
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Toxic chemicals in air come back down to earth in form of rain or hail
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Agribusiness
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Giant commercial farm owned by multinational corporation
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Alliances
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Agreement between nations to defend each other
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Anarchists
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Person who wants to abolish all government
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Ancien regime
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Old order system or gov in in prerevolutionary France
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Annex
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Add a territory to an existing state or country
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Anschluss
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Union of Austria and Germany
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Apartheid
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Policy of rigid racial segregation in South Africa
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Appeasement
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Giving in to an aggressors demands in order to keep the peace
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Armada
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Fleet of ships
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Armistice
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Agreement to end fighting in a war
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Assembly line
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Method of production where job is broken down into tax
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Atheism
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Belief that there is no God
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Auschwitz
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Three concentration camps in southern Poland during Third Reich
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Autocratic
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Having unlimited power
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Autonomy
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Self-rule
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Axis powers
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Group of countries led by Germany, Italy, and Japan that fought the Allies in World War 1
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Balance of Power
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Distribution of military and economic power that prevents one country from growing stronger than another
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Balfour declaration
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Statement issued by British gov saying that Jews should have homeland in Palestine mandate
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Bastille
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Fortress used in Paris as a prison; the French Revolution began when Parisians stormed it in 1789
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Bataan death march
Forced march of Filipino and American prisoners of war by the Japanese military during ww2
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Blitzkrieg
Lightning war
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Blocs
Group of nations supporting one another
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Bourgeoisie
The middle class
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Boxer uprising
Anti foreign movement in China from 1898-1900
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Boycott
Refusal to buy
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Capital
Money and wealth used to invest in businesses
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Capitalism
Means of production are privately owned and operated for profit
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Capital offenses
Crime punishable by death
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Cartel
A group of companies that join together to control the production and price of a product
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Cartographers
Person who makes maps
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Censorship
Restriction to access risks and ideas
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Checks and balances
Branches of gov monitor and limit access of other branches
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Chinampas
Artificial island used to cultivate crops
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Circumnavigate
Travel completely around the world
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Civil disobedience
Refusal to obey unjust laws
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Cold War
Tension and hostility between nations aligned with US on one side and Soviet Union on other
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Collectivization
Forced joining of workers and property into collectives
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Columbian exchange
Global exchange of goods, ides, plants, and animals, disease
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Command economy
Products, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by gov
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Commercial revolution
Period of economic growth, colonialism, and mercantilism
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Communism
Classless society, property is all publically owned
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Congress of Vienna
Series of meetings where European leaders sought to establish peace after Napoleon
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Conquistador
Spanish explorer who took part in conquest of Americas
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Constitutional government
Rulers power is limited by law
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Containment
Harry Truman, US tried to stop spread of communism
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Continental system
Napoleons policy of preventing trade between Britain and Europe
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Contraband
Goods imported or exported illegally
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Corporations
Company or group of people authorized to act as single entity
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Creoles
Colonist born in Latin America to Spanish parents
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Cult of domesticity
Idealization if women and the home
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Cultural nationalism
Pride in one's country
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D Day
Allies began invasion of European mainland during WWI
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Deficit
Shortage
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Deficit spending
Gov spending borrowed money in excess of revenue
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Deforestation
Chopping down trees
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Depopulation
Substantial reduction in the popular of an area
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Developing world
Another name for third world
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Disarmament
To prohibit weapons
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Dissentor
Person opposed to the church if England
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DMZ
Demilitarized zone
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Dutch East India Company
Establish direct trade throughout Asia
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Edict of Nantes
Deceleration where Henry IV promised that Protestants could live in peace
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Electorate
All the people in a country who are entitled to vote in an election
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Emancipation
Fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions
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Enclosure
fenced in fields created by wealthy British men
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Encomiendas
Grant of land made by Spain to Americas
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Enlightened despots
18 th century monarchs inspired by enlightenment ideas to rule justly
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Enterprise
Business or company
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Estates
One of three social classes in France before French Revolution
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Estates general
Assembly of representatives from all three of the estates in France
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Ethnic cleansing
Violent brutality in order to get rid of a religious race
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European Union
Achieves political and economic integration
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Expansionism
Policy of territorial or economic expansion
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Extraterritoriality
Exercise of laws outside of its territory
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Faction
Group within a larger group
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Fascism
Promotes extreme nationalism and dictatorship and denial of individual human rights
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Federal system
power is divided between central authority and number of individual states
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14 points
Proposals by Woodrow outlining lasting peace in ww1
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Free enterprise system
Capitalism
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Free market
Prices are determined by business competition
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Free trade
Commerce between nations without economic restrictions or barriers
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French and Indian War
Britain and France over North America
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Fundamentalists
Person who believes in strict religion
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Genocide
Killing of a nation or ethnic group
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Germ theory
Diseases are caused by Germs
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Gestapo
German Nazi state
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Glasnost
Soviet policy if openness to ideas
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Great Depression
Severe worldwide economic downfall after collapse of stock market in the 1930s
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Green revolution
Increase in fertilizers, and pesticides to help growth of new and better crops
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Gross domestic product
Total value of goods produced during one year
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Guerrillas
Fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemies
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Gulag
Labor camps in Soviet Union
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Huguenots
French Protestant
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Imperialism
Nation tries to overtake another nation politically or economically or socially
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Import substitution
Replacing foreign products with homemade ones
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Internment
Confined as a prisoner
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Island hopping
Allies going from island to island in Japan attacking randomly
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Kaiser
German emperor
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Kamikaze
Japanese suicide pilots trying to sink allied ships by crashing bomb planes into them
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Kellogg Briand Pact
International agreement to not use war to solve conflict in 1928
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Labor unions
Organized association of workers
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Laissez faire
Gov should not regulate business and industries
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Legitimacy
Conforming to the laws or rules
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Line of demarcation
Between Spanish and Portuguese territory
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Luftwaffe
Aerial warfare branch of combined Germany military forces
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Lusitania
British ship sunk by German submarines
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Maginot line
Line of defensive fortifications built before ww1 to protect eastern French borders
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Mandates
Official order to do something
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Manhattan project
Nuclear weapon research
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Manifest destiny
Expansion of US is justified and inevitable
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Marshall plan
American aid to Western Europe
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Mercenary
Soldiers who fight for money
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Mestizos
Person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry
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Middle passage
Sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies
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Mobilize
Prepare and organize troops for active service
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Monopoly
Control of supply and trade in commodity and commerce
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Mujaheddin
Holy warriors in afghan
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Mulattoes
Mixed European and African ancestry
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Mutual aid society
Provides mutual aid
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Napoleonic code
Laws by Napoleon
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NATO
Defensive military alliance formed by WE, US, CA
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Nazi Soviet pact
Non aggression pact made by Germany and SU
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Nonaligned nations
Neutral countries in Cold War
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Nuremberg laws
Laws encouraging Nazism
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Nuremberg trials
Nazi leaders tried for aggression
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Oligarchy
Power is in the hands of a few people
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Opium war
Btwn British and China
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Outpost
Military position as a guard
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Pacifism
Opposition to war
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Parliamentary democracy
Prime minister
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Partition
Dividing into two parts
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Peninsulares
Colonists born in Spain
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Adam smith
Scottish economist, believed in free market
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Ataturk
First Pres of turkey
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Bartolemu de las cases
Spanish historian spoke out against indigenous oppression
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Benito Mussolini
Leader of national fascist party WW1
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Deng xiapong
Chinese politician, most powerful figure
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Dwight Eisenhower
General of allied forces led massive invasion of Nazis
