Age of Revolutions
The entire breakdown of pre-revolutionary France's social hierarchy system
What was the estates system?
1 - Clergy
2 - Nobles
3 - Peasants
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote this as a response to poor working and life conditions of the working class
What was the communist manifesto?
Conference that allowed European powers to split up Africa without the input of any African individuals
What was the Berlin Conference?
4 MAIN causes of WWI
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
The two leaders who practiced civil disobedience to break away from their colonizer
Who was Gandhi & Mandela?
What is the Guillotine?
What is the steam engine?
The three motivators for imperialism (3 G's)
What was God, Glory, Gold?
The two major powers of the Cold War
Who were the United States and USSR?
Vietnamese leader who wanted to break Vietnam away from France's colonial grasp
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
Name three enlightenment thinkers
Who was John Locke
Who was Baron de Montesquieu
Who was Voltaire
Who was Jean Jacques Rousseau
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft
A disease that swept through Ireland forcing all of the potatoes to go rotten causing the Irish Potato Famine
What was the blight?
A form of imperialism where you do not directly control another country but you maintain influence over the area
What is a Sphere of Influence?
The atrocity that took place during WWII
What was the Holocaust?
The result of Indian Partition being rushed
What was mass riots and murder between the two major religions of India?
Tokugawa Japan was ruled by a ________________
What is absolute ruler?
One effect of urbanization during the industrial revolution
overcrowding
pollution
disease
British company that helped Great Britain become the greatest colonial empire in the world
What was the British East India Trading Company?
Leader who modernized/westernized Turkey, in hopes it became a Global power
Who was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk?
Form of oppression in South Africa that was similar to what was happening in America
What was Apartheid?
Leader of the first revolution in Latin America (Haiti), who was inspired by the French Revolution
Who was Toussaint Louverture ?
This subsection of the industrial revolution led to a massive increase in population do to surplus of a certain product
What was the agricultural revolution?
This is the reason why imperialism was necessary for European Nations
This allowed for the rise of totalitarian dictators in Europe leading up to WWII
What was the Great Depression?
First President of China who helped break China away from its spheres of influence
Who was Sun Yat Sen?