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- political and social system that existed in France before the French Revolution
- Old Regime
- one of the 3 socials classes in France before the French Revolution
- estate
- French king and weak leader
- Louis XVI
- most famous victim of Reign of Terror-was decapitated
- Marie Antoinette
- assembly of representatives from all 3 of the estates or social classes in France
- Estates General
- French Congress established by representatives of the 3rd estate to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people
- National Assembly
- pledge made by the members of France's National Assembly in 1789 in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution
- Tennis Court Oath
- machine for beheading people, used as means of execution in French Revolution
- gullotine
- statement of revolutionaty ideals adopted by France's National Assembly
- Declaration of the Rights of Man
- French Congress with power to create laws and approve declarations of war
- Legislative Assembly
- ppl who leave their native country for political reasons, like the nobles and others who fled France during the French Revolution
- Emigres
- in the French Revolution, a radical group made up of Parisan wage earners and small shopkeepers who wanted a greater voice in the government, lower prices, and an end to food shortages
- sans culottes
- dictator during french revolution
- Robespierre
- period from mid 1793 to mid 1794 when Robespierre ruled France nearly as a dictator and 1000s of political figures and ordinary citizens were executed
- Reign of Terror
- controlled vast empire
- Napolean Bonaparte
- use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region
- blockade
- Napolean's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe; intended to destroy great britain's economy
- Continental System
- member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy trooops occupying his or her country
- Guerilla
- Napolean's last stand
- Waterloo
- brief period during 1815 when Naploean made his last bif for power, deposing the French king and again becoming emperor of France
- Hundred Days
- political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others
- Balance of Power
- hereditary right of monarch to rule
- Legitimacy
- league of European nations formed by the leaders of Russia, Austria, and Prussia after the Congress of Vienna
- Holy Alliance
- agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another
- nonaggression pact
- "lightning force of the war" form of welfare in which surprise attacks with fast moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces
- blitzkreig
- French general during WWII
- Winston Churchill
- Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attacked Hawaii
- Pearl Harbor
- a 1942 sea and air battle of WWII in whivh German forces were defeate in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union
- Battle of Midway
- commander of the allied land forces in Pacific
- Douglas MacArthur
- 1942-1943 battle of WWII in whivh allied troops drove Jap forces from the Pacific Island of Guadalcanal
- Battle of Guadalcanal
- to the Nazis, Germanic people who formed a master race
- Aryans
- mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during WWII
- Holocaust
- city neighorhoods in which European Jews were forced to live
- ghettos
- systematic killing of an entire group of people
- genocide
- German officer in the plot to assassinate Hitler
- Rommel
- took control of British forces in north africa
- Montgomery
- American general
- Eisenhower
- 1942-1943 battle of WWII in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad
- Battle of Stalingrad
- June 6, 1944 day on which tyhe allies began their invasion of the European mainland during WWII
- D-Day