World History to 1500
The first river civilization that developed between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Mesopotamia
Social and economic change that began in England in the 1760s when the industrial geography of England changed significantly and later diffused to other parts of western Europe. In this period of rapid socioeconomic change, machines replaced human labor and new sources of inanimate energy were tapped. Coal was the leading energy source fueling the industrial revolution in England's textile-focused industrial explosion.
Industrial Revolution
1620. A temporary agreement drafted aboard the "Mayflower" establishing civil authority for the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. The Pilgrim leaders realized the need for discipline to maintain order among themselves.
Mayflower Compact
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production; proponent of the Assembly Line and Standardization; invented the Model T with production in 1908; workers paid salary high enough to buy products they made.
Henry Ford
have rules that emphasize a large role for the public in governance, protect basic rights and freedoms, and attempt to ensure basic transparency of and accountability for government actions
Democratic Regime
First written law code
The Code of Hammurabi
The revolution that began in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.
French Revolution
The first ten amendments that clearly define liberties and placed restraints on governmental interference.
Bill of Rights
A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson during his Fourteen Points, although the United States never joined. Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946.
League of Nations
A legislative-executive system that features a head of government (often a prime minister) elected from within the legislature
Parliamentary System
431-404 BCE
two armed camps under the leadership of Athens and Sparta
the Spartans and their allies had forced the Athenians to unconditional surrender by 404
Sparta's victory soon generated new jealousies , resulting in new conflict
Peloponnesian War
A South African policy of complete legal separation of the races, including the banning of all social contacts between blacks and whites.
Apartheid
Term for the great North American war fought between the British and the French in 1754-1763
French and Indian War
This happened at the beginning of Kennedy's administration. Eisenhower had established a plan for the CIA to train 1500 anti-Castro Cuban exiles for an invasion and takeover. On April 17, 1961 the militia invaded the south coast of Cuba. The invasion didn't work and all but a few hundred were captured or killed
Bay of Pigs invasion
An ideology that is hostile to the idea of individual freedom and rejects the notion of equality
Fascism
Name Henry VIII's 6 wives in order and their fate
1) Catherine of Aragon (divorced) 2) Anne Boleyn (beheaded) 3) Jane Seymour (died) 4) Anne of Cleves (divorced) 5) Catherine Howard (beheaded) 6) Catherine Parr (survived)
June 8, 1815 the allied forces, under the leadership of the British Duke of Wellington won a decisive victory against Napoleon on the plains of Waterloo (today is Belgium). Napoleon was banished to St. Helena, a little island in the middle of the South Atlantic.
Waterloo
the leader of the 1859 "raid" on the US arsenal Harper's Ferry
John Brown
Cold War Ends
1991
An authoritarian regime that has leaders who claim to rule on behalf of God
Theocracy
the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms period. Spanning over four centuries, this is considered a golden age in Chinese history
Han Dynasty
Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989. The demonstration was crushed by Chinese military firing on the students with tanks resulting many deaths.
Tiananmen Square
Undeclared war fought almost entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800 which broke out during the beginning of John Adam's presidency
Quasi-War
was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops."
Vietnamization
An ideology that emphasizes creating economic equality instead of ensuring individual political and economic freedoms
Communism