World War I
The assassination of this person led to the beginning of WW1
Who is Archduke Franz Fernidad of Austria-Hungary?
This British movement, led by Emmeline Pankhurst, used militant tactics including property destruction and hunger strikes to demand voting rights for women in the early 1900s.
What is the suffragette (suffrage) movement?
This French philosopher believed that government power should be separated into legislative, executive, and judicial branches to prevent tyranny.
Who is Montesquieu?
This British invention, developed by James Watt, dramatically improved the efficiency of steam power and became the driving force behind the Industrial Revolution.
What is the steam engine?
It ended WW1 and its list of demands made the German people angry
What is the Treaty of Versailles
She published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), advocating for women's education and arguing that they were not naturally inferior to men.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
This British empiricist argued that all knowledge comes from sensory experience and rejected the idea of innate ideas.
Who is John Locke?
This 1769 invention by Richard Arkwright revolutionized textile production by allowing multiple spindles to be operated simultaneously.
What is the water frame?
In the years leading up to WW1, what country competed with Great Britain for industrial domination of Europe?
What is Germany
The Russian Revolution caused the forced abdication of this Russian ruler
Who is Emperor Nicholas II?
The campaign for the right to vote grew, culminating in events like this in 1848 in the U.S., where activists demanded women's suffrage and rights.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
This Swiss-born philosopher wrote The Social Contract and argued that legitimate government is based on the consent of the governed.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This term describes the shift from agrarian, rural economies to urban, industrial societies during the Industrial Revolution, fundamentally changing where and how people worked and lived.
What is urbanization?
Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy formed this
What was the Triple Alliance?
The Chinese Communist Party was founded in by him in 1921
Who is Mao Zedong?
This 1920 amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote, following decades of activism by the women's suffrage movement.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This French Enlightenment philosopher championed religious tolerance and free speech, famously saying "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Who is Voltaire?
This German industrialist revolutionized steel production with his open-hearth furnace, making steel production faster and cheaper, which fueled railroad and shipbuilding expansion. The Process was named after him
Who is Henry Bessemer?
The ship that was blown up by Germany killing over 100 Americans
What was Lusitania?
During the French Revolution, she wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen to protest the exclusion of women from the new revolutionary government's promises.
Who is Olympe de Gouges?
This English philosopher argued that without a strong central authority, human life in the state of nature would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This philosophy, developed by Adam Smith and embraced by industrialists, argued that businesses should operate with minimal government interference to maximize efficiency and economic growth.
What is laissez-faire (capitalism)?