Dates
1688
Glorious Revolution
William & Mary asked to take the crown by Parliment
I lead a peaceful and successful attempt to overturn colonization in India.
Mahatma Gandhi
Viet Minh
Independence fighters of Ho Chi Minh
held a stronghold in north Indonesia
Triple Alliance
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy (Italy later changes sides)
Define Social Imperialism
Idea of one class maintaining control of classes of another people
1917
Russian Revolutions
I lead the communist party in the U.S.S.R. and tried to reform the Soviet Communist Party.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Versailles Treaty
Ended WWI four German states
signed by Germany at the Versailles Treaty in France
Define Total War
Industrialization
Whole countries efforts go to war
large scale
I was a French colony. Freed by a Vietnamese Independence Movement and guerrilla-style warfare.
Indonesia
1789
French Revolutions
I was part of the Junker (the Prussian nobility). I became the new chancellor and was nicknamed the Iron chancellor.
Otto Von Bismark
Red Guards
Boleshevik army lead by Lenin
wanted to speed up the Revolution
took over Petrograd and Moscow
Gavrilo Princip
Assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Started WW1
Define Nationalism
A strong sense of pride for one’s own country
lead to a lot of independent movements
1815
Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo and exile to St. Helena
Congress of Vienna
I called together the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
Clemens Von Metternich
Triple Entente
Russia, France, and U.K. [Italy later joined]
(“The good guys”)
*WWI
Short Term Causes
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, shells Belgrade
Russia mobilizes, Germany mobilizes
Germany declares war on Russia
Define Satellite State
A state held under the Warsaw Pact (1955) of the Cold War by the USSR. States controlled under the Iron Curtain.
1618-1648
30 years war
ends with Peace of Westphalia
I was Napoleon’s nephew. I was elected President of France in December around 1848.
Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon 3rd)
Prague Spring
Protests throughout USSR Czechoslovakia during the collapse of the Soviet Union
How did WW1 contribute to WW2?
It left Germany crippled and wanting power and blaming the rich which tended to be the Jews.
Country that was communist but lived outside the Iron Curtain. Nationalism lead to a horrific genocide in Bosnia.
What country am I?
Yugoslavia