A military strategy of burning or destroying buildings, crops, or other resources that might be of use to an invading enemy force.
What is the Scorched-Earth Policy?
100
Represented the balance of power that existed in Europe from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the outbreak of World War I (1914).
What is the Concert of Europe?
100
Tolerant of different views and standards of behavior in others.
What is Liberal?
200
The European conference held at Vienna from 1814-15 to settle the territorial problems left by the Napoleonic Wars.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
200
A Spanish-born Spaniard, or mainland Spaniard, residing in the New World or the Spanish East Indies
What is a Peninsulare?
200
Favoring or making economic, political, or social changes of a sweeping or extreme nature.
What is Radical?
300
A situation in which nations of the world have roughly equal power.
What is Balance of Power?
300
A person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean.
What is a Creole?
300
The desire to achieve political independence, especially by a country under foreign control or by a people with a separate identity and culture but no state of their own.
What is Nationalism?
400
The popular acceptance of an authority, usually a governing law or a régime.
What is Legitimacy?
400
A person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent.
What is a Mulatto?
400
A sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent.
What is Nation-State?
500
A league formed by the principal sovereigns of Europe in 1815 with the professed object of promoting Christian brotherhood but the practical object of repressing democratic revolutions and institutions.
What is the Holy Alliance?
500
Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion.