History Final 2
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- leon trotsky
- leader of the whites
- anglicists
- called for a western education
- partition of poland
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division of poland by russia
- russu-japanese war
- japanese defeated the russians; first time a small country beat a major world power; japan became a major world power
- who was frederick the great?
- liked art and philosophy but not military matters; defeated the hapsburgs
- zimmerman telegram
- cabled the german abasador in mexico; tried to urge mexico into war as a german ally; in return germany would help mexico regain territory in the us; intercepted by the british and passed to the US; published in press and outraged americans; got america in to the war
- meiji restoration
- western style reforms in japan that abolished feudalism and adopted a constitution based on the autocratic prussian model
- What was the Act of Union?
- union of England and Scotland
- claude monet
- worked outside to capture nature directly on his canvas
- karl marx
- english; established communism
- gavrillo princep
- killed francis ferdinand; part of the Black Hand; a secret serbian nationalist group
- john locke
- wrote that human beings were born without pre-xisting ideas and principles; the human mind was a "clean slate" that was shaped bye environment, education, and society
- stages of history
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1. primitive communism
2. Slavery
3. feudalism
4. capitalism
5. modern communism - eli whitney
- invented the cotton gin
- industrial revolution
- intense phase of tenchnological development; began in britain
- oreinetalists
- argued that indians should recieve an essentially indian education
- sick man of europe
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ottoman empire; countries were sure it was gonna collapse
- cecil rhodes
- became prime minister of cape colony, resigned, and then built ralways that connected new colonies to southern africa and the east african coast
- battle of jutland
- british strategic victory because the german fleet remained in port for the rest of war
- great trek
- mass boer migration from caple colony to the african interior
- tongi restoration
- major reform program in china THAT INcluded lowering farm taxes and undertaking water control projects
- treat of breast-litovsk
- took russia out of the war
- quadruple alliance
- great britain, russia, prussia, and austria; to keep international peace and put down international rebellion and revolution
- count cavour
- prime minister of sardinia; the "brain"
- bastille day
- working pople of baris stormed the bastille to finde weapons; July, 14, 1789
- 11-11-18
- leaders of the new german republic agreed to ally terms for an armistice ending the hostilities until a formal treaty could be completed
- treaty of versailles
- allies treaty with germany after the war; germany to pay reparations
- fourteen points
- president wilson's program designed to lay the foundation of a lasting world peace
- soviets
- russian unions and councils through which worker expressed grievances
- charles darwin
- developed the theory of evolution
- whites
- former army officers and army gruops of russia including the Cossacks who formed the military units between 1918-1920 to fight the bolshevik red army in the russian civil war
- giseppe garabaldi
- the "sword"; was known as one of the most skillful guerilla warfare generals of all time
- boxer rebellion
- anti-foreign society; made china fall
- reds
- bolshevik military units
- herbert spencer
- english; tried to apply darsin's theories to society
- francis ferdinand
- heir to the hapsburg throne; killed the the Black Hand
- pablo picasso
- experimental artist used shapes (mostly cubes) to form unusual images in paintings
- battle of saratoga
- first win of the patriots against the british
- shaka zulu
- leaser of the amo-zulu clan
- battle of yorktown
- ended war with combined attack by us and france
- agricultural revolution
- shift from food gathering to food producing; introduction of new farming methods
- dual monarchy
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double-rule; government of austria-hungary
- partition of africa
- divided between belguim and germany
- congress of vienna
- congress to negotiate a full and definite settlement of european peace following the napoleonic wars
- causes of world war I
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1. nationalism
2. imperialism
3. militarism
4. alliances - blood and iron
- quote by otto von bismark to win war
- Otto von bismark
- leader of purssia for a while
- alexander II
- csar of russia; crushed the big rebellion
- Waterloo
- napoleon's defeat
- franco-prussian war
- austria vs. germany
- benign neglect
- harsh neglect against british