World History Benchmark (definitions/people) Flashcards
Cardinal Richelieu
Lays the groundwork for absolutism
Gustavus Adolphus
Takes everyone’s ideas and puts them together, father of modern warfare
Maximilien Robespierre
Dictator of the French Revolution leading the executions - Starts the Reign of Terror
Camillo Cavour
Prime mover in the unification of Italy
Benito Mussolini
Invented fascism
Joseph Stalin
Russian dictator who took over after Lenin, communist
Mohandas Gandhi
Passive resistance - encouraged peacefully breaking the law for India’s independence
Michael Faraday
Designed the first Dynamo (electrical generator)
Millicent Fawcett & Emmaline Pankhurst
Founders of the British Women’s suffrage movement
Margaret Thatcher
First female prime minister of England, conservative and ally of Ronald Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Final leader of the Soviet Union
When he resigns, the Soviet Union doesn’t exist anymore
Name Four European Royal families and the country they are associated with.
Medici - Florence, Hapsburg - Austria, Valois - France, Tudor - England
Nationalism, Imperialism, & Romanticism
Romanticism
Focuses on how people are feeling, not thinking, Individuality, Emotion, Freedom, Imagination
Nationalism
the policy of asserting the interest of one’s own nation viewed as separate from the interests of other nations or the common interests of all nation
Imperialism
The policy of expanding a nation’s power by seeking hegemony over other people
The Scramble for Africa
Big world powers racing to take chunks of Africa
The Dawes Plan & Money Cycle
American banks will loan money to the German government. They use that money to pay back reparation to Britain and France. They use that money to pay back US banks
Anti-Semitism
Discrimination against Jews
Appeasement (In regards to WWI)
The belief that aggressive governments (Germany) only wants a few things, if we give it, they’ll be satisfied and we’ll avoid a war
The Marshall Plan
If a European nation is willing to invest some money themselves, we will send aid to help them rebuild
Decolonization
Big world powers pulling out of their colonies and letting them be independent
The Doctrine of Limited Sovereignty in the USSR
Russia can interfere in the affairs of communist nations - invented by Leonid Brezhnev
Ethnic Cleansing
Mass murder of people of one ethnicity to “cleanse the population”
