Enlightenment
According to John Locke, the three natural rights that everyone is said to be born with are
life, liberty, property
The nickname given to Marie Antoinette was
Madame Deficit
Eli Whitney invented
cotton gin
The conflict between Britain and China over the sale of illegal narcotics was the
Opium War
MAIN-A stands for
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Assassination
Sun is center of universe
Earth is center
heliocentric
geocentric
Leader of the Committee of Public Safety who sent thousands to their deaths:
Robespierre
James Watt was the inventor of this
steam engine
The human-made waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is the
Panama Canal
The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne whose assassination triggered WWI was
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The U.S.'s first constitution, which was eventually replaced, was the
Articles of Confederation
occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, was an act of political violence by revolutionary insurgents who attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armory, fortress, and political prison
Storming of the Bastille
The economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned and operated for profit is
capitlaism
The forty-five-year reign of Emperor Mutsuhito was known as the
means Enlightened One
Meiji Era
This plan Designed to avoid a two-front war against France and Russia, it called for a massive, swift invasion of France through neutral Belgium and the Netherlands, aiming to capture Paris and knock the French out in just six weeks
Schlieffen Plan
________is credited with saying "I think, therefore I am."
rene descartes
First Estate
Second Estate
Third Estate
clergy
nobility
everyone else
Robert Fulton was the inventor of the first commercially successful
steamboat
An area where a foreign nation controls trade and investment is called a
sphere of influence
The British passenger liner sunk by a German U-boat was the
Lusitania
Argued that there should be a separation of government powers to prevent a single person from becoming too powerful
Montesquieu
Another name for the middle class
Bourgeoisie
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are famous for writing the
Communist Manifesto
(1899–1901) was a violent, anti-foreign, and anti-imperialist uprising in northern China. Initiated by a peasant secret society, the movement sought to drive all foreigners—especially Christian missionaries—from the country.
boxer rebellion
US President during WW1 and his plan for peace
Woodrow Wilson
14 Point Plan