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This weakening empire’s gradual loss of control over Southeast Europe in the 19th century created a power vacuum that fueled nationalist tensions.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This agreement forced Germany to pay heavy reparations after WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This 1948-49 event involved Western powers dropping supplies to Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This lesser-known Enlightenment thinker authored "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," arguing that women’s apparent inferiority was due to lack of education rather than nature.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
This post World War I literary movement reflected disiullusionment with modern society?
What is modernism?
This secret Serbian nationalist group, whose name evoked death symbolism, supported the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914.
What is the Black Hand?
The economic condition combined inflation and unemployment in the 1970's.
What is stagflation?
This military alliance united the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This philosopher proposed the separation of powers in government, influencing later constitutional systems such as that of the United States.
Who is Montesquieu?
This artistic movement rejected realism and emphasized irrationality and dreams.
What is surrealism?
This 1878 diplomatic meeting, dominated by Otto von Bismarck, attempted to stabilize the Balkans but instead intensified rivalries among the Great Powers.
What is the Congress of Berlin?
This post–World War I economic crisis in Germany reached its peak in 1923, forcing citizens to carry wheelbarrows of cash as currency lost nearly all value.
What is Weimar Hyperinflation?
He formulated the policy of containment in 1947 to counter Soviet expansionism with the theory aiming to prevent the spread of communism, and was the foundation of US Cold War strategy.
Who is George F. Kennan
This philosopher argued that humans in the state of nature were naturally good, but were corrupted by society, a claim he explored in Discourse on Inequality.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This philosophy emphasized meaninglessness and the individual's search for purpose.
What is exisentialism?
In 1908, this empire’s annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina outraged Serbia and heightened tensions with Russia.
What is Austria-Hungary?
This policy of government spending aimed to stimulate recovery during economic crisis.
What is Keynesian economics (deficit spending)?
The ageement reduced tensions and promoted cooperation on the 1970's.
What is detente?
This Enlightenment writer used satire in works like Candide to criticize optimism and the institutions of church and state.
Who is Voltaire?
This German artistic movement portrayed emotional turmoil and anxiety.
What is expressionism?
This ideology promoted the unification of all Slavic peoples in the Balkans under the leadership of Serbia, alarming Austria-Hungary.
What is Pan-Slavism?
This international system tied currencies to the U.S. dollar after WWII.
What was the Bretton Woods system?
He was the leader of the Polish labor union that challenged Communist authority is the 1980's.
Who is Lech Wałęsa?
This thinker’s concept of the social contract justified absolute monarchy as necessary to prevent the chaos of life in a state of nature, which he described as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This avant-garde movement mocked traditional art and embraced absurdity after World War I.
What is Dadaism?