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world history Flashcards

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Enlightenment

Enlightened Thinkers

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15/1600’s new way of thinking away from bible/religion & thinking themselves

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Voltaire

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Freedom of speech

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Constitutional monarchy

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King has to obey law & work w/ constitution

1st England, Magna Carta King John

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Newton

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Universal law of gravitation

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Copernicus

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heliocentric

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6
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Napoleon’s biggest defeat & last battle

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Russia & Waterloo

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7
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Napoleon never beat this country but tried to blockade them

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England

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7
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Biggest fundamental cause of Fall of the Bastille

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Unfair voting (Estates General)
Economy (Debt)
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8
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2 countries in Opium War

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China & GB

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Fall of the Bastille

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Beginning of French Rev.

Hated prison fortress

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10
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1st industry

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Textile (clothes)

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5 factors needed to establish a strong industry

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Entrepreneurship, labor, land, capital, technology

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13
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Urbanization

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Moving from the country to the city

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14
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GB natural resources:

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Water, iron oar, coal

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14
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Industrial world

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Class struggle, about $, turn communist

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15
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All ppl from industrial world came from

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Have & have nots
Haves=Bourgeoisie
Have nots=Proletariats

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16
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Carl Marx

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Communist

Said have & have nots

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17
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Adam Smith

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Wealth of Nations

Competing w/ Marx-capitalism, compete w/ self interest, to make as much $ as possible

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18
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Berlin Conference

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Europe ÷d Africa unfairly & agree not to fight w/ each other

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19
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Open Door Policy

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US forced China to open ports

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Treaty of Kanagawa

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Japan opened up ports to the rest of the world started w/ US b/c of Matthew Perry

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21
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Industrial Rev. negative aspect

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Disease

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22
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Total war

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Whole country involved not just soldiers

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23
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“Jewel of the Crown”

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India, valuable to GB, most profitable/income, most valuable colony, carry resources

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Tiananmen Square

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Chinese gov fired on unarmed citizens protesting for better gov & edu

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25
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Mao Zhedong

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Leader of communist China in 1949

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26
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Cultural Rev.

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Implemented by Mao

Eliminated ppl who used their minds & disliked the teachers

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27
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki

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1st Hiroshima 2nd Nagasaki

28
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Why were India & Pakistan split?

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Religion

29
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Nobles were forced to sign the Declaration of Rights of Man during French Rev., what did it do?

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Gave rights to the peasants, documents signed by the nobles saying there are no more noble privileges in France

30
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Locke

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Life, liberty, property through reason

31
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Nationalism

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Extreme pride for country could be bad b/c it could turn violent

32
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Guillotine

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Killing machine of Jacobins made by doctor to make painless, radical

33
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Difference between a democracy & a fascist gov.?

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Democracy more freedoms than fascist

34
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Impact of steam engine

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Boats, trains, & factories

35
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Louis16th escape raise army come back take over country again using violence to return to the way things used to be

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Reactionary

36
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Battle of Normandy/D-Day

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Allies take back France

37
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City defeated that marked the end of WWII

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Berlin

38
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“Crimes against humanity” led to Nuremberg trials

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Holocaust

39
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Stalingrad

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Most important battle, Germans lost to SU

40
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B4 WWII Italy, Germany, SU have in common

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Totalitarian leadership

41
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What caused GB & France to declare war on Germany?

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Invasion of Polandhttps://www.brainscape.com/decks/924104/cards/quick_new_card

42
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Mussolini lead his fascist black troops when he marched where?

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Rome

43
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Benefited from hated Versailles treaty used ppl’s anger from WWI hated Weimar Republic

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Hitler

44
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Stalin defeated who to become the leader of the SU?

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Trotsky

45
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Political Spectrum order

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radical, liberal, moderate, conservative, reactionary

left=future right=past outside=violent inside=compromise

46
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radical

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republic
Jacobins, Marat, Robespierre, Danton
left wing
-overthrow/start over
-opposes king/monarchy
-change in gov 
-power to control ppl
-violence
47
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liberal

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Lafayette (noble write Dec of Man)
Talleyrand (clergy)
-more solutions to prob
-gradual democratic change

48
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moderate

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constitutional monarchy
Madame Roland, Girondists, Charlotte Corday
-centrists
-compromise
-some gov changes but not like liberal or radical
-no extreme views

49
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conservative

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limited monarchy
nobles, clergy
-likes the way it is; remain the same
-few changes
-keep "status quo"
50
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reactionary

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absolute monarchy
nobles, clergy
divine right
-return to past 
-opposes all change
-violence
51
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Rousseau

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every1 has inalienable rights that cant be taken away

52
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Hobbes

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every1 us selfish but = so the monarch tells ppl what to do

53
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Napoleon overthrows the gov

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Coup d’etat

54
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“Divine Right” theory

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idea that when you became king God put you there so if you go against the king it’s like going against God

55
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Napoleonic Code

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comprehensive system of laws used throughout Europe

56
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Causes of WWI

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Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

57
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Mandates

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British (Iraq & Palestine)

France (Syria & Lebanon)

58
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Bacon

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scientific method

59
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Reign of Terror leadership

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Robespierre (Jacobins)

59
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Napoleon’s reforms

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Bank, edu, get rid of corruption in the government

59
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How Industrial Rev. affect imperialism?

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Countries needed raw materials for factories so they went to get them (ex:Africa)

59
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Absolute ruler def. & actions taken to increase power

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Controls everything! (military, political,religion, social) Increase taxes & decrease power of nobles & church

59
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Causes of French Revolution

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Estates general voting, debt, enlightenment thinkers, U.S Revolution

59
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Reign of terror groups used to advance their goals

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Peasants

59
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King names

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Henry, Louis, Philip, M?

65
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Results of French Revolution

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Countries around Europe are scared they’re going to have a rev. too, monarch gone

67
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Imperialism def. & example

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When a stronger country takes over/expands weaker countries ex: when Europe ÷d Africa

68
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Relationship between Agricultural & Industrial Rev.

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+food=+ppl to work in factories

Finals 2013 (6 decks)

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