Reformation
What did Luther criticize in his 95 Thesis?
The selling of indulgences.
THE U.S PROPOSAL TO HELP IN WESTERN EUROPE’S ECONOMIC RECOVERY
THE MARSHALL PLAN
This “reaction” ended the Reign of Terror by overthrowing the Committee of Public Safety and establishing the Directory.
Thermidorian Reaction (1794).
In what century did the Renaissance begin AND where?
14th Century in Italy
What year did the WW2 start and end?
1939-1945
Why did Henry VIII turn from being a Catholic ruler to being the head of the Church in England?
His desire to annul his marriage with Catherine of Aragon and wed Anne Boleyn.
COUNTRIES EAST OF THE “IRON CURTAIN” THAT CAME UNDER THE MILITARY, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC DOMINATION OF THE SOVIET UNION
While drafting a constitution, the French added the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789), which included many of the Enlightenment ideals.
NAME 2 RIGHTS INCLUDED IN THE DECLARATION:
•Guaranteed freedom of speech and religion
•Fair trial by jury
•Established a republic with all men able to vote
before it was usually wealthy, landowners, or nobles
•Protected private property
a Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought
Humanism
Coined by Benito Mussolini in the early 1920s to describe the new fascist state of Italy, this term refers to a government that exerts absolute control over every aspect of public and private life.
totalitarianism
Where, during the Counter-Reformation, were steps taken to reform the Catholic Church? (MEETING)
Council of Trent (1545-1563)
A period of relaxed tensions and increased cooperation between opponents or adversaries.
Detente
The ideals of the French Revolution were encapsulated in the phrase _____.
liberty, equality, fraternity.
This was the cultural center of the Italian Renaissance.
Florence
Who was the President of the United States when World War II began? Who was president when WWII ended?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Harry S. Truman.
He opposed religious superstition, anything that lacked literal support in Scripture was not to be believed, and end to clerical celibacy.
Ulrich Zwingli
A security policy which holds that if two sides in a political conflict have huge arsenals of nuclear weapons, war can be prevented?
Deterrence
•First Estate: Clergy (1% of population)
•Second Estate: Nobles (1% of population)
•Third Estate: Common folk (98% of population)
•Reflected humanist ideals
More realistic and expressive
•Perspective
3 Dimensional-Depth
•Geometrical arrangements of figures
This 1917 political slogan, famously championed by Vladimir Lenin upon his return to Russia, concisely summarized the Bolsheviks' promises to the weary Russian population.
"Peace, Land, and Bread"
His idea of Predestination (the “elect” will go to heaven), required a complete moral transformation.
John Calvin
4 ways in which the Cold War was waged.
PROPAGANDA
COVERT ACTIONS (CIA VS. KGB)
ARMS RACE (BUILDUP OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS)
PROXY WARS (MAJOR POWERS SUPPORT OPPOSIGN SIDES OF A SMALLER WAR)
WHAT TOOK PLACE ON JULY 14, 1789?
Storming of the Bastille
gold, glory, and God.
This mnemonic acronym is commonly used by historians to categorize the four long-term causes of World War I.
PROVIDE THE ACRONYM AND WHAT EACH LETTER STANDS FOR.
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism.