Absolutism
The soverign rules by the ________ ________ _____ _________.
What is the Divine Right of Kings?
President Reagan did a famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate pledging with Soviet Leader, Gorbachev to tear this down.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This city in Turkey fell to the Ottomans in 1453?
What is Constantinople, later Istanbul?
The tsar who established the "beard tax."
Who is Peter the Great?
She was known as the "Virgin Queen."
Queen Elizabeth I
The _________ _________ of 1688 ended any threats of absolutism in England.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
He coined the phrase "Iron Curtain."
Who is Winston Churchill?
The __________ ruled and agricultural land was his personal property with peasants paying taxes to use it.
What are sultans?
Who is Alexander II?
She is honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
Who is Joan of Arc?
During his 72-year reign, _____________ ruled his kingdom as an absolute monarch and moved his royal court to the Palace of Versailles.
Who is Louis XIV?
After the launch of Sputnikby the Soviet Union in October 1957, and the implied Soviet superiority in missile technology, the United States' Congress began hearings in November to develop a long-term space plan known as _______________.
What is NASA?
These were communities of self-government under religious leaders.
What is the Millet System?
This Russian ruler was strongly influenced by French philsopher, Voltaire.
Who is Catherine the Great?
She was the last Queen of France.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
During his 46-year reign, he extended the empire to its greatest ever reach, stretching from the gates of Vienna to the Persian Gulf – gaining him the European sobriquet 'the Magnificent' – while codifying and standardising legal processes across the empire, which is why Turks know him as 'the Lawgiver.'
Who is Suleiman I?
The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.
What is the Truman doctrine?
Members of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops. They were the first modern standing army, and perhaps the first infantry force in the world to be equipped with firearms.
What are Janissaries?
Primarily from elite families who hoped to establish a constitutional monarch to replace Russian despotism.
Who are the Decemberists?
She came to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter III.
This Habsburg ruler's long reign augmented and consolidated the rule of Absolutism. The period was marked by wars with France and the Ottoman Empire with the Seige of Vienna.
Who is Leopold I?
This was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
He was the founder and very first sultan of the Ottoman dynasty, who expanded the principality inherited from his father, based around his hometown, and pushed into the Byzantine-held areas in the northwest of Anatolia.
Who is Osman?
This Russian ruler sought to reverse the liberalising reforms of his father, persecuting non-Orthodox religious groups, advancing Russian nationalism, and promoting autocracy.
Who is Alexander III?
She is the the longest-reigning female monarch in our world's history, ruling as Queen 70 years.
Who is Elizabeth II?