French Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Liberalism/Nationalism
Politics
World Wars I and II
100
This king called the Estates General because of France's near bankruptcy.
Who is Louis XVI?
100
This man stated that while population grew at a geometric rate, food supply grew at an arithmetic rate, leading to an inevitable shortage and starvation.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
100
This was the name for the landed aristocracy of East Prussia, the social group most opposed to German unification.
What are the Junkers?
100
Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels published this 50-page pamphlet in 1848. It called for the rising up of the proletariat to take over the bourgeois.
What is the Communist Manifesto?
100
The policies of this man, who practiced realpolitik, led to the system of alliances in Europe and set the stage for the first World War.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
200
The state seized Church property and issued paper money, called this, using the seized property as collateral.
What are assignats?
200
This act limited the number of hours children under age nine could work as well as providing paid inspectors and procedures for enforcement.
What is the Factory Act? (1833)
200
This Italian state led the unification of Italy under King Victor Emmanuel II and his prime minister, Camillo de Cavour.
What is Piedmont-Sardinia?
200
This agreement between the Germans of Austria and Bohemia and the Magyars of Hungary resulted in a Dual Monarchy.
What is the Ausgleich?
200
This British prime Minister's policy of appeasement allowed Hitler to take over the Sudetenland and place troops in Czechoslovakia.
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
300
This executive branch, made up of five members, was established in 1795, after the execution of Robespierre and the fall of the Committee of Public Safety, and lasted until 1799.
What is the Directory?
300
David Ricardo produced a theory stating that if workers were paid more, they would produce more children, who would consume the increase, which meant that the working class would forever exist at subsistence levels. His idea was called this.
What is the iron law of wages?
300
This movement in Britain was tied to the Anti-Corn Law movement. It was primarily a working-class movement and its main issue was universal suffrage. It was based on the idea of a "great charter" or national petition with thousands of signatures to be presented to Parliament, although Parliament eventually rejected the three million signatures they got.
What is the Chartist Movement?
300
This Bill passed by Parliament under Disraeli and Gladstone extended the vote to male "heads of households".
What is the Reform Bill of 1867?
300
This treaty allowed Russia to exit World War I, but forced the Russians to cede much of their western territory to the Germans.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
400
The kings of Austria and Prussia banded together and issued this statement in 1791, stating that they would use military force to "restore order" in France if other nations joined them.
What is the Declaration of Pillnitz?
400
James Hargreaves developed this machine in the 1760s that finally allowed spinning to keep up with weaving.
What is the spinning jenny?
400
These two men were instrumental in the unification of Italy. One extended the nationalist activity into Sicily with his Red Shirts, and the other organized a group called Young Italy, which brought youth into the nationalistic movement.
Who are Garibaldi and Mazzini?
400
The name of this Russian party, headed by Lenin, meant "majority", although its party was actually fewer in number than their opponents.
What are the Bolsheviks?
400
This plan developed by an American banker reworked the German payment plan and arranged for Germany to secure foreign loans.
What is the Dawes Plan?
500
As part of the de-Christianization of France, churches were converted to these.
What are temples of reason?
500
This was the tariff union developed by Friedrich List; it included 80% of the German states.
What is the Zollverein?
500
In these four statutes, King Charles X of France dissolved the Chamber of Deputies, censored the press, reduced franchise to exclude the upper middle class, and called for new elections based on the revised franchise.
What are the July Ordinances?
500
This party competed with the Liberal Party in England and eventually replaced them.
What is the Labour Party?
500
These were the three places where conferences were held between Allied leaders concerning the outcome of the second World War.
What are Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam? <3
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