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Hist 161 Final Rhode Island College
Units 9-15
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History
Undergraduate 1
05/10/2009

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Absolutism of Louis XIV
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Louis XIV wanted complete control over France. Palace of Versallies
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Constitutionalism
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One laid down set of laws
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Locke+Hobbes
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Locke=Libral, Hobbs=Conservative, Nationalist
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scientific method
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Copernicus
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Astronimer, Hiliocentric
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Enlightenment
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1700's-emphisized reason and science. Philosophy
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Galileo
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Telescope
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Third Estate
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Working class
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Reign of Terror
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French massicre- mass killings, gillotine
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Napolean
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French Military Leader, led France to many victories, named himself Emperor
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Conservatism
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Stay the way things are
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liberalism
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CHANGE
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Nationalism
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People as a society share the same beliefs, called a Nation
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Industrial Revolution
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Steam, Cotton, Intentions
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Industrial Revolution
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Capitalism
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Money Money Money
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Urbanization
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City population in Europe Skyrocketed
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socialism
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Wealth is distributed equally
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social darwinism
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Everyone competes
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new imperialism
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European Colonial expansion
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Einstien
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e=mc2
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Freud
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id ego superego unconcious mind
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WWI Causes
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fall of the archduke, militarism, nationalism
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Triple Alliance
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Italy, Russia. Austria/Hungry- Pact to protect eachother from France
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militarism
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Everything is about war
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nationalism
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trench warfare
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everything was fought in mile-long trenches, cold wet nasty- in there for weeks
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treaty of versailles
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Treaty among the losing WWI countries- Germany to blame and pay reparations
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weimar republic
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replaced the imperialist german government in 1919
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russian revolutions
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went from to a provisional government, then to a communist government
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lenin
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led first russian revolution- Marxist
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stalin
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became communist leader of russia after lenin
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adolph hitler
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leader of the german nazi party, promoted nationalism, anti-semitism and anti-communism
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shoah
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6 million Jews killed during the holocaust
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A-bomb
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Nuclear threats everywhere- US, RUSSIA
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fascism
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believe in a single-party state
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Axis/Allies- WWII
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you know who's who
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Invasion of USSR
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Final solution
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Nazi Germany's plan to mass-execute the jews during WWII
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Pearl Harbor
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Jap. Bombing of Pearl Harbor- Reason we went into WWII
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Hiroshima
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A-bomb dropped on by USA, killed 80,000
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Marshall Plan
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US's plan to help rebuild western Europe
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NATO
Definition
North American Treaty Ortanization
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United Nations
Definition
Group of European Countries together
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Cold War
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USA vs USSR- Space race, Nuclear power
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Gandhi
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PEACE
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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Russia had nukes in cuba, too close to the US
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decolonization
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Getting a forign country out of your own
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Vietnam War
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USA didn't want a communist takeover of south Vietnam
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Fall of Communism
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the fall of the USSR, the rebuilding of Poland and Hungary
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