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Ch. 26 & 27

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Emmeline Pankhurst
founded the Woman's Social and Political Union.
Woodrow Wilson
represented U.S. at Treaty of Versailles.
Andrew Jackson
first U.S. President produced by the west, the first since George Washington not to have a college education, and the first to be born into poverty.
Woodrow Wilson
took his 14 points to the Peace conference at Versailles.
Alexander 2
pushed through the "Great Reforms" in Russia and emancipated the serfs and was assasinated in 1881.
King Wilhelm 1
crowned Kaiser in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles and the Second Reich was proclaimed.
William Gladstone
whose tenure as British Prime Minister was called the "Glorious Ministry."
Ferdinand Foch
supreme Allied commander in WW1.
Alexander 2
emancipated the serfs, making it the most important event in the domestic history of 19th century Russia.
Kellogg-Briand Pact
name of the pact that was supposed to outlaw war.
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
negotiated a secret treaty with the French, Austrians, and British to restrain Russia and Prussia.
Pope Pius 9
rejected the terms of the Law of Papal Guarantees in 1871.
Emile Zola
French writer who wrote his famous letter "I accuse."
Maximilian
the Hapsburg prince placed on the Mexican throne during the U.S. Civil War.
Leopold von Berchtold
Austrian foreign minister who wanted to crush the propaganda and terrorism coming from Serbia.
Louis Philippe
known as the "citizen king".
Nicholas 1
succeeded Alexander 1 in 1825.
Klemens von Metternich
came to dominate the the Congress of Vienna.
Napoleon 3
gambled on a successful war against Prussia and lost.
Ivan Pavlov
conducted experiments in which food was given to a dog at the same time a bell was rung.
Otto von Bismarck
German Prime Minister that built modern Germany.
Lusitania
name of the ship that was torpedoed with the loss of over a 1000 lives in 1915.
James Monroe
warned the Europeans that their intervention into the Western hemisphere would be regarded as an unfriendly act.
Winston Churchill
British first sea lord that came up with the plan to force open the Dardanelles.
Triple Alliance
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
Treaty of Sevres
name of the treaty that divided up the Ottoman Empire.
Charles 1
fled from Vienna and the Hapsburg Empire collapsed.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914.
Georges Boulanger
French Minister of War who was ordered arrested for conspiracy and fled the country.
Charles Albert
forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Victor Emmanuel 2.
France
name of the country that constructed the Maginot Line.
Franklin Roosevelt
U.S. President who came up with the New Deal.
Pablo Picasso
painted "Guernica."
Georges Clemenceau
represented France at Treaty of Versailles.
Albert Einstein
expressed his theory of relativity in the equation E=mc^2.
Panther
name of the gunboat Germany sent to Agadir in response to France moving into Morocco.
Otto von Bismarck
became the German Prime Minister in 1862.
William Gladstone
Prime Minister that fought for Irish home rule in the British Parliament, split the party and paved the way to a decade of Conservative rule.
Alfred Dreyfus
French Jewish officer that was accused of selling military secrets to Germany.
David George
represented Great Britian at Treaty of Versailles.
Nov. 11, 1918
when WW1 ended.
Matthew Perry
persuaded the Japanese to open some of their harbors to American trade in 1853.
Giuseppe Mazzini
formed a patriotic society called Young Italy.
Peterloo Massacre
name of the worse incident of violence that took place in Manchester, England.
Gavrilo Princip
assassinated the Archduke of Austria.
Battle of Jutland
name of the sea battle that was the only major navel engagement of WW1.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
led the Red Shirts.
Ramsay MacDonald
formed the first labor govt. and was the first socialist prime minister of Great Britian.
Holstein
province in Denmark that Austria took in 1864.
Vittorio Orlando
represented Italy at Treaty of Versailles.
Schleswig
province in Denmark that Prussia took in 1864.
Alfred von Schlieffen
came up with a plan to bypass the Belgians and invade France.
Prince Leopold 1
who Belgian national assembly chose to be king in 1831.
King Wilhelm 2
saw Bismarck as a threat and forced him to resign.
Henry Clay
whose Missouri Compromise of 1820 permitted slavery in Missouri, forbade it in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.
Nicholas 2
succeeded Alexander 3.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
name of the treaty that made peace between Russia and Germany.
Triple Entante
France, Russia, and Great Britian.
Sigmund Freud
pioneered the theory and methods of psychoanalysis.
Quebec Act
British legislation which was called the "Magna Carta of the French Canadian race."
Duke of Wellington
known as the "Iron Duke".
minority
what Menshevik means.
Benjamin Disraeli
sponsored the Second Reform Bill in Great Britian.
majority
what Bolshecik means.
Black Tuesday
what October 29,1929 is called by financiers.

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