Shared Flashcard Set

Details

AP Euro- Vocabulary
terms to know
55
History
10th Grade
05/07/2009

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
OPEC
Definition
oil petroleum company, controls price of oil around the world
Term
Detente
Definition
appeasement of cold war tensions; Helsinki Accords
Term
Berlin Wall
Definition
seperated West Germany from East Germany; Communism from capitalism
Term
Brezhnev Doctrine
Definition
allowed Brezhnev to interfere in other communist countries, Russia
Term
Cold War
Definition
Russia & US, no battles, space race, arms race, after WWII
Term
decolonization
Definition
losing of colonies after WWII as more liberal ideas reached out and the mother country was to weak to suppress such ideas
Term
Berlin Airlift
Definition
food & supplies sent to Berlin through planes overhead, dropping them off for a year when Stalin blockaded all land routes
Term
Warsaw Pact
Definition
Russian response to NATO during Cold War, NOT voluntary
Term
NATO
Definition
US; treaty to attack other nations if a member is invaded, created during Cold War in response to Russian threat, is still around now
Term
Marshall plan
Definition
Economic Plan by US; kept countries from becoming desperate enough to try communism
Term
Truman Doctrine
Definition
President Truman; policy of Containment, Marshall plan, U.S.
Term
Iron Curtain
Definition
Churchill's coined term describing the seperation of East Europe from West Europe
Term
Holocaust
Definition
Adolf Hitler, discrimination by race, many countries involed, Poland, death camps, concentrations camps, genocide
Term
Great Purges
Definition
Russia, Stalin, Communism, leader disliked the Ukraines, allowed them to starve when they did not make the gov't quota of food
Term
Kulaks
Definition
rich Russian farmers
Term
Five Year Plan
Definition
Stalin's Economic Plan, fully communist, increased steel production and helped boost economy quickly
Term
N.E.P.
Definition
Lenin's economic plan, infused with capitalism and communism
Term
Blitzkrieg
Definition
"Lightning War", Germany against Britain, bombing its major cities to pull soldier's moral down as well as citizens
Term
Destalinization
Definition
reforms under Khrushchev with more liberal ideals
Term
French Classicalism
Definition
Renaissance; Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello, Giotto, etc.
Term
Peace of Augsburg
Definition
Faith of Prince determins the faith of the people, 1555
Term
mercantilism
Definition
Adam Smith against; gov't controlled, doesn't benefit individuals
Term
constitutionalism
Definition
running of a country through a set of writtne or untwritten laws
Term
The Restoration
Definition
Charles III brought to the throne after teh decapitation of Charles I and reign of Oliver Cromwell
Term
Glorious Revolution
Definition
William and Mary brought to throne i bloodless revolt, forced to limit their power by Bill of Rights
Term
Junkers
Definition
German nobles
Term
tsar (czar)
Definition
Russian leader before communism
Term
cossacks
Definition
Russian warriors
Term
scientific method
Definition
Bacon & Decarstes, the way science was experimented and performed, Scientific Revolution
Term
heliocentric/ geocentric
Definition
planets revolve around the sun / sun and planets revolve around world

Copernicus / Ptolemy
Term
philosophes
Definition
French philosophers during the Enlightenment
Term
salons
Definition
paties run by woman to speak about philosophies during the Enlightenment, one of the major roles women played in the Enlightenment
Term
indulgence
Definition
buying your way or your relatives way out of Purgatory and into heaven
Term
Anabaptists
Definition
people who believed in Baptism in adulthood, Protestant
Term
Puritans
Definition
people who wanted to purify the Church of England of all Catholic Traditions
Term
Protestant
Definition
people protesting against the Church, Lutherans, Calvinists, Anabaptists, etc.
Term
transubstantiation
Definition
transformation of wine and bread to Jesus' blood and body in the Eucharist, believed by the Church

remember; TRANSformation / TRANSubstantiation
Term
consubstantiation
Definition
"with", Jesus is in the room but the wine and bread remain as symbols of his body ONLY

remember; CON in spanish means WITH/
CONsubstation
Term
Ursuline order
Definition
Nuns during the Counter Reformation, enhancing education to lead o better Christian standards, esp. girls, created by Angela Medici
Term
The Society of Jesus
Definition
Jesuits, created by Loyola, 1540, work directly for Pope, go anywhere to help soulds, carry Christianity to many countries, spreading beliefs
Term
Dutch east India Company
Definition
Netherlands dominated European economy 1650, gov't sponsored company
Term
Spanish Armada
Definition
Philip II attacked English navy in English Channel May 9, 1588, and was defeated by English
Term
Huguenots
Definition
French Protestants
Term
War of the Three Henrys'
Definition
Henry of Guise, Protestant Henry of Navarre, King Henry II, Edict of Nantes after th e war, Defenestration of Prague a trigger, and St. Bartholomeu's Day Massacre
Term
Nobility of the Robe
Definition
People who bought their way into Parliament, often middle class, became elective spots, often judges or lawyers (people who wore ROBES)
Term
Defenestration of Prague
Definition
two men thrown out of a window, triggering the Thirty Years War

remeber; the men fell into horse crap, aka FECES/ deFENEStration
Feces and Fenes look similar
Term
astrolabe
Definition
determines altitude of sun and other celestial bodies, enable people to plot latitude
Term
Baroque
Definition
art & architecture style
Term
Ethnic Cleansing
Definition
genocide within Serbia, throw out people of Kosovo to have a completely Serb occupied Serbia
Term
glasnost
Definition
Gorbachev economic plan, Russia, aids in ending Cold War and USSR
Term
Perestroika
Definition
gorbachev, cultural plan, russia, aids in ending cold war and USSR
Term
Solidarity
Definition
Polish Labour Party, against communism, Lech Walesa Leader, highly popular
Term
ABsolutism
Definition
complete control of the people by God's right
Term
Babylonian Captivity
Definition
Popes relocated from Rome to Avignon for 68 years (1309-1376)
Term
fur-collar crime
Definition
nobles attack, rob from poor classes
Supporting users have an ad free experience!