Enlightenment and Revolutions
Creator of "Natural Rights".
Who was John Locke?
The process by which a society transforms from an agrarian (agricultural) economy into one based on mechanized manufacturing and mass production
What is Industrialization?
Name a cause of WW1
What is MANIA?
If one nation falls to communism, the rest will follow.
What is Domino Theory?
The active, deliberate, and nonviolent refusal to obey specific government laws, demands, or commands
What is Civil Disobedience?
A legislative and consultative assembly in pre-Revolutionary France, composed of representatives from the three social classes—the clergy (First Estate), the nobility (Second Estate), and the commoners (Third Estate)
What was the Estates General?
1885-1886 meeting of European powers to discuss who should get what area of land in Africa.
What was the Berlin Conference?
Document that ended WW1 in which Germany was named at fault (paid reparations, loss of military, etc.) and created the League of Nations
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
Policies of "openness" and "western" used by the Soviet Union in the 1980s through Gorbachev.
What are Glasnost and Perestroika?
Systematic racial segregation of Afrikaners and Black South Africans between 1945-1994.
What was Apartheid?
Event that signifies the start of the French Revolution.
What was the storming of the Bastille?
Time period in which Japan removed their shogun from power and became a modern super power.
What was the Meiji Restoration?
A diplomatic strategy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict
What is appeasement?
Policy by Mao Ze Dong following the failures of the Great Leap Forward which included intense communist propaganda to help sway Chinese citizens.
What was the Cultural Revolution?
The creation of India and Pakistan following the Indian independence movements.
What was the Partition of India?
Time period after the French Revolution led by Robespierre that justified widespread use of violence.
What was the Reign of Terror?
AS described by Karl Marx (Father of communism), this group of people are the "haves".
Who are the Bourgeoise?
Far right political ideology often paired up with intense regimes and capitalism .
What is fascism?
An armed conflict where major, external powers instigate or fund local groups, governments, or non-state actors to fight on their behalf
What are Proxy Wars?
Islamic Fundamentalist law established by different rulers (such as Ayatollah Kohemeni in Iran) in which all laws are based on Islam
What is Sharia Law?
Leader of Haitian Revolution
Who was Touissant L'Ouverture?
Creation of these after the Opium Wars in which European countries had control over China indirectly.
What are "spheres of influence"?
Document created by the UN after WW2 in which all modern countries recognize that all humans are entitled to live by.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Policy by Deng Xiaoping to make China into a modern superpower and created strict laws.
What were the 4 Modernizations?
Genocide in 1994 in Africa in which the Hutus systematically exterminated members of the Tutsi tribes due to previous European colonialist thoughts.
What was the Rwandan Genocide?