European Enlightenment
A movement that was characterized by rational thought and the seeking of natural laws as they pertained to governments, societies, and economics.
What is the Enlightenment movement?
Radicals “Without Breeches”, Working class of Paris. Shopkeepers, artisans, wage earners. They sought relief from food shortages and inflation calling for price controls & social equality
Who were the Sans-Culottes?
This is an economic system that seeks to reduce the gap between the rich and poor by providing a basic standard of living for all. It doesn't seek to eliminate social classes, and it allows for private property and enterprise.
What is Socialism?
This group assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
What is the Black Hand?
He was the czar of Russia before the Russian revolution
Who was czar Nicolas II?
He argued that man is born with three natural rights of life, liberty, and property and it is the role of government to protect those rights.
Who was John Locke?
The Bastille was stormed on this day in history, and it has become a patriotic day for the French.
What is July 14th, 1789?
He was an economic theorist and historian who believed that the proletariats would rise up in revolution over the bourgeoisie and establish communism.
Who was Karl Marx?
Germany created this plan to get France out of the war.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
This Russian civil war army consisted of the Bolsheviks
What is the Red Army?
He wrote "The Social Contract" and was an advocate for the formation of direct democracies where people had a say in their government.
Who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
Revolutionary painter in France, commissioned to paint for Napoleon. "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" and "Napoleon's Coronation" are examples.
Who was Jacques-Louis David?
He was an enlightened economist who wrote Wealth of Nations in 1776 and was an advocate for laissez-faire capitalism.
Who was Adam Smith?
These were the 2 kinds of alliances in World War I.
What is the Triple Entente and Triple Alliance?
He created the red army and was the main political enemy of Stalin.
Who was Leon Trotsky?
This philosophe proposed that the separation of powers into 3 branches of government (executive, legislative, judicial) was best to provide checks and balances and prevent abuses of power.
Who was the Baron De Montesquieu?
British admiral that defeated the French fleet off the coast of Egypt in 1798 and later at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 near Spain.
Who was Admiral Horatio Nelson?
Wealth that is invested to generate a profit or more wealth. Significant part of one of the -isms' names.
What is Capital?
This document prompted the United States of America to join World War I.
What is the Zimmerman Telegraph?
This was the kind of government that Joseph Stalin used to control the Russian people.
What is totalitarianism?
He was an enlightened despot from Austria who freed the serfs and traveled in disguise to learn of his subjects' problems
Who was Joseph II?
The name for the events of July 1794 that ended the Reign of Terror with the death of Maximilien Robespierre.
What was the Thermidorian Reaction?
This movement starts the process of taking over and consolidating lands formerly shared by British peasant farmers to cultivate fields more efficiently and scientifically. It caused many small farmers to migrate to cities.
What was the Enclosure Movement?
Woodrow Wilson created this treaty for Germany to sign that would end WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
He was a Russian influencer that had the nickname “Holy Man”.
Who was Rasputin?