Revolutions & Napoleon
This estate made up about 97% of France’s population.
The Third Estate
The new social class of factory owners and business leaders. Also, the oppressors according to Marx.
The Bourgeoisie.
The unification of Germany was led by this Prussian leader.
Otto von Bismarck
The 1884–85 meeting that regulated the Scramble for Africa.
The Berlin Conference
The U.S. program to rebuild Europe after WWII.
The Marshall Plan
Napoleon’s legal code that emphasized equality before the law (for men).
The Napoleonic Code
The group of workers who destroyed machines in protest.
The Luddites!
The movement advocating Slavic unity, especially in Eastern Europe.
Pan-Slavism
The belief that stronger nations should dominate weaker ones.
Social Darwinism
This term describes the division of Europe into capitalist West and communist East.
The Iron Curtain
The meeting that restored conservative order after Napoleon’s defeat.
The Congress of Vienna
The urban working class is known by this term. Also, Marx's term for the group that is oppressed by Industrialization.
The Proletariat.
This war finalized German unification in 1871.
The Franco-Prussian War
This system placed former Ottoman and German territories under European control after WWI.
The Mandate System
This opposing alliance organized Eastern Bloc countries under Soviet leadership.
The Warsaw Pact
The political ideology emphasizing tradition and monarchy after 1815.
Conservatism
This economic theory argues for no government interference in markets.
Laissez Faire/Capitalism
This empire was known as the “sick man of Europe.”
The Ottoman Empire
These conflicts (1912–1913) destabilized the region and weakened the Ottoman Empire prior to WWI.
The Balkan Wars
This 1956 uprising demonstrated resistance to Soviet control in Eastern Europe.
The Hungarian Uprising
The term for Napoleon’s strategy of weakening Britain through economic blockade.
The Continental System
The British reform act that improved factory working conditions for children.
The Factory Acts
The ideology that promoted Jewish homeland creation.
Zionism
This internal collapse of a major empire during WWI led to a communist government.
The Russian Revolution
This doctrine justified U.S. intervention to support nations resisting communism.
The Truman Doctrine