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Which Enlightenment philosopher felt that people needed an absolute monarch to maintain order?
Thomas Hobbes
he improved the steam engine in the late 1700's
James Watt
the movement of the people to cities
urbanization
Explorer and Missionary who opened up the interior of Africa and increased European interest in the region.
David Livingstone
What is "Prussia"
A former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland
What was the slogan of the French Revolution?
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
what is the "Franco-Prussian War"
1870 - 1871) Was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia.
Bastille Day is known as the turning point of the revolution because?
A mob raided a prison
what was the "Piedmont-Sardinia"
Italian nationalists looked for leadership from this kingdom. it was the largest and most powerful of the Italian states
Identify Giuseppe Mazzini's purpose for writing to workingmen in 1858
Mazzini believed that God had intended nations to be the natural units of mankind. So Italy could not continue to be a patchwork of small states and kingdoms. It had to be forged into a single unified republic within a wider alliance of nations. This unification from above could be the basis of Italian unity.
who was Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872)
what is a "nation-state"
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nation
what is "Blood and Iron"
"Blood and Iron" was the speech that Otto Von Bismarck gave with the belief that a strong industry and military was needed in a country to have success.
who is "Count Camillo Cavour "
Endorsed the economic doctrines of the middle class. Worked for a secret alliance with Napoleon III against Austria. Worked to unite Italy.
Risorgimento
Italian nationalist movement
Domino Theory
A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control
who is Giuseppe Garibaldi
Italian patriot whose conquest of Sicily and Naples led to the formation of the Italian state (1807-1882).
what was the "Crimean War"
(1853-1856) Russian war against Ottomans for control of the Black Sea; intervention by Britain and France cause Russia to lose; Russians realize need to industiralize
what is a "Detente"
A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
who is King Victor Emmanuel II
The King of Piedmont that appointed Cavour his Prime Minister and worked to unite Italy.
who is Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)
who is Ho Chi Minh
Communist leader of North Vietnam
who is Chaing Kai Sheck (Jiang Jieshi)
a political and military leader of 20th century China.
who was Pol Pot
Leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, who terrorized the people of Cambodia throughout the 1970's
What was the name of the tribe that resisted Imperialism in South Africa for more than 50 years, and who was their leader?
Ethiopia/Menelik II