Peace and Treaties
The peace of Westphalia established this idea based on the idea that a country's territory should be mutually recognized by other countries.
What is Inviolate Borders?
This treaty organization, later known as "The Allies" consisted of France, Great Britain and the Russian Empire.
What is the Triple Entente?
The British extracted permanent territory and concessions after the Chinese lost this conflict in 1842
What are the Opium Wars?
This is a social, economic and political ideology that holds that if markets are left to work, self-interest and competition will create equilibrium.
What is Capitalism?
This is a national philosophy which glorifies the soldier as the ultimate embodiment of citizenship.
What is Militarism?
This organization, formed after Napoleon's defeat, argued that Europe would be safe if it practiced "balance of power."
What is the Congress of Vienna?
Despite an intense British propaganda campaign, the sinking of this ship in 1915 was not enough to get the United States into World War I.
What is the HMS Lusitania?
This conflict from 1803-1815 saw most Europe united under a single dictator's rule for the first time since the rule of Charlemagne.
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
This first economist argued that population growth would always outstrip food production, leading to famines.
Who is Thomas Malthaus?
This term refers to movements that rejected liberal capitalism in favor of trying to create a perfect society.
What is Utopianism?
This political idea, argues that nations should be free to make their own choices regarding religion without fear of attack.
What is Self-Determination?
The United States entered World War I, when British intelligence intercepted this document.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This conflict resulted in the first representative republic in the New World..
What is the American Revolution?
This Enlightenment Era political philosophy argues that the best form of government is a representative democracy in which rights, especially property rights are protected.
What is Liberalism?
This era of Japanese history saw rapid industrialization and Imperial expansion.
What is the Meiji Era?
This organization was created after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, to ensure that no further revolutions could disrupt the peace.
What is the Concert of Europe?
World War I began with the assassination of this Austrian noble in 1914.
Who is Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand?
This conflict led to the dissolution of the East India Company, and the coining of the phrase, "bite the bullet."
What is the Sepoy Revolt?
European powers engaged in this in the 19th and 20th Centuries in order to seize raw materials from Africa and Asia.
What is Imperialism?
This British government system ruled India from 1857 until 1947.
What is the Raj?
This treaty dismembered Germany, and saddled it with enormous War Debt in 1919
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This German strategy called for an all-out attack on France by way of an invasion of Belgium.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
A type of conflict in which multiple unions go on strike together in order to paralyze the economy.
What is a General Strike?
What is Collective Bargaining?
These men, also known as the Young Italians were the leaders of the Italian unification movement.
Who are the Carbonari?