Birth of The Modern World
What are key characteristics that are associated with the Modern World?
Gas, lighting, trains, appliances, cars.
What does COPS stand for and what was their job?
Committee of Public Safety
Protect the Revolution from counterrevolution
What are two reasons the IR started in Great Britain?
What did the League of Nations do after Italy, Japan, and Germany stretched their boundaries?
Nothing
What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What was the start if the Modern World? (Think century)
1600s
What feeling did Robespierre use in the Reign of Terror?
Paranoid, people turned on each other
What was the purpose of the factories in the IR?
To convert raw materials to finished goods
What was the Rome-Berlin Axis?
An alliance between Hitler and Mussolini.
After the Geneva accords, what parallel divided the country of Vietnam and what ideologies controlled the North and South?
17th Parallel, Communism in the North and Anti-Communism in the South
Who was the father of the Modern World?
Galileo Galilei
Where the 3 estates of the Old Regime?
First Estate: 1% of pop, clergy
Second Estate: 5% of pop, nobles
Third Estate: 94% of pop, "The People"
How many days and hours did the average person work?
12-16 hrs, 6 days a week, not Sunday cause of Sabbath
What was the Battle of Britain or "The Blitz"?
Hitler's Bombing of London for 57 nights
List two Satellite Nations as well as the other names for them
Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, Yugoslavia
Eastern Bloc and Iron Curtain.
What marks the start of the Modern World?
The Enlightenment
When Nap lost Waterloo, what happened to him and where did he end up?
He was exiled, went to Saint Helena where he died from disease.
What were the downsides of child labor?
Didn't grow correctly, became infertile, didn't have a childhood
Where did the "Phony War" take place?
On the French Maginot Line (France)
What are the "Islands of Democracy" and where were they located?
The free zone within Berlin that was controlled by the Americans, British, and France forces.
Where was the Boxer Rebellion?
China
What was the purpose of storming the Bastille Prison?
Bourgeoisie and Urban Laborers were looking for gunpowder and political prisoners.
What was the "Invisible Hand" theory?
No gov regulation so the consumers and sellers will come to a reasonable price.
When did WWII start? (Exact Date)
Sept. 1, 1939
Which U.S. president pulled the US out of the START treaties?