Vocabulary Potpourri
This word means when people glorify and focus their energies on the development of their military.
What is militarism?
The sun never set on the empire of this nation during the 18th - 19th centuries.
What is Great Britain?
Florentine artist, whose notebooks show how he was a scientist, an engineer, and an inventor, a true Renaissance man.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
The study of classical Greece and Rome to understand human potential and achievement. Hint: Popular during the Renaissance
What is humanism?
Germany used this military strategy, "lightning war", in its invasion of Poland in 1939.
What is blitzkrieg?
The worldwide economic depression and fears of communism led to the rise of this government, which has a dictator, salutes, marches, militarism, and ultranationalism.
What is fascism?
This was the meeting to establish an understanding among European nations so that they could avoid war while colonizing Africa.
What is the Berlin Conference of 1884?
Wanting an annulment (divorce) to remarry and a royal heir, he led England away from the Church in Rome to form the Church of England.
Who is Henry VIII?
Time when people sought to understand natural laws to help society progress and protect natural rights of people. Also known as the Age of Reason
What is the Enlightenment?
The Western Front of WWI Europe had this type of warfare, in which soldiers waited in dugout areas before charging across no-man's land.
What is trench warfare?
A severely struggling economy with underconsumption and high unemployment such as the world experienced in the 1930s.
What is a depression?
19th century imperialism existed in central Europe where Austria-Hungary and Russia competed for influence in this area, the powder keg of Europe.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
He wrote the Prince, a guide to Renaissance-era leaders about how to gain and maintain power.
Who is Machiavelli?
He argued that a government could better protect the natural rights of its citizens by empowering different branches with different powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
This is the name of the alliance formed by Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII.
What are the Axis Powers?
Posters, messages, and media meant to shape public opinion as was used during the "total wars" of WWI and WWII.
What is propaganda?
This world region was successfully won independence from Spain and Portugal with Enlightened creoles wanting to fight against imperialism.
What is Latin America?
German monk who preached salvation by faith, not good works, and that Christ-followers are equal before God.
Who is Martin Luther?
Economic philosophy related to capitalism, in which the government leaves the economy alone rather than regulating trade.
What is laissez-faire?
The US dropped these weapons first on Hiroshima then a second on Nagasaki, which ended WWII.
What are atomic bombs?
Documents sold for the Catholic Church releasing people from penalties for their sins, which mean less time in Purgatory, the region between hell and heaven.
What is purgatory?
Time period when inventions produced more goods, which is one reason why Britain wanted to gain colonies around the world.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Who is Galileo?
This was a belief that monarchs could rule absolutely, because they were representatives of God.
What is divine right?
This country sent the Zimmerman Telegram, which provoked the US and caused it to declare war in WWI.
What is Germany?