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- First Real World War.
- Ohio Country and into Canada
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- William Pitt the Elder
- Prime minister during the French and Indian War
- Further the ambitions of britian acquiring canada and india
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Finance Minister to Louis XVI in lead up to French REvoltution |
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- legislative assembly of the different classes of the french population.
- Had no real power
- The first consisted of clergy, the second of nobility, the third was commoners.
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- Parisians in search of weapons stormed Bastille, armory. also served as prison. Beheaded leaders there.
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- The French National Assembly adopted it.
- Charter of basic liberties and destruction of aristocratic priveledges. Monarchy restricted and all citizens given way to participate in government.
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- Political club during the F.R.
- deputies to general estates
- Maximillian Robespierre was leader.
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| Formed at National Convention. Committee of 12. Dominated by Robespierre. Gave the leadership to weather the domestic and foriegn crises. |
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| After the execution of Ropespierre, revolution fervor gave way to the TR. named after the month ofthermidor. Terror began to abate. churches reopened. jacobins shut down. better protection for deputies against mob members. |
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| in the new french legislation, the council of elders elected 5 directors from a list to act as the executive commitee. directory proved to give way to an era of corruption, and a graft materialistic reaction to suffering. relied on military to maintain power against its enemies at both ends of the political spectrum. |
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| French Military and Political leader. Product of the revolution but also helped bring it to an end. DEveloped the French govn't into a powerful, administratice machine. helped spread the empire largely. overtaking europe. |
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| Napoleon dispersed a Royalist mob in the streets of paris with a "whiff of GRapeshot" A grapeshot is a canvas bag filled with loosely packed metal slugs and shot from a canon. |
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| British Flag officer. Served in Royal NAvy. During Napoleonic wars. |
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| Major Naval battle, climax of naval campaign, off coast of Egypt, Admiral Horatio Nelson. GAve British Lead for rest of wat |
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defacto ruler. established by napoleon. consulate replaced directory, napoleon was head, first consul |
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| order established by napoleon. highest decoration in france. degrees of chivarl. recognition of merit to replace nobility |
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| french civil code, prohibited priledges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified government jobs go to the most qualified. |
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| aquisition by the US of the French Territory. bought. way to difuse conflict with napoleon |
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| Nappy's greatest victory. defeated russo-austrian army. brought third coalition to an end |
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| naval battle admiral horatio nelson was killed at. |
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| Foreign policy of napoleon. large scale embargo against british trade. try to deny UK access points in Europe. Way to silence Britain. |
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| Britains response to contenintal system. forbade french trade with UK and her allies. instructed royal navy to blockade french ports. |
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| time between nappy's return from exile and restoration of throne to King Loius??? includes waterloo campaign and Napoleonic wars. |
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| AFter Napoleon raised another army after returning from exile, he . he met a english and prussian army. he suffered a bloody defeat. he was then exiled again to a remote island, where he died. |
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| congress of ambassadors of european states. there to discuss issues like french revolution, napoleonic wars, holy roman empire. redrew continents political map. creation of spheres of influence. |
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| farmer/inventor. invented the seed drill. more food for same seed. |
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| invented more efficient steam engine. had continuous motion. first time mans production was independent of nature |
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| invented first practical telephone. |
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| german philosopher who believed that the working class will only justice when they seized production. inspired two great revolutions. |
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| the idea that competition between people, nations, races and groups drives social evolution. |
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| nephew of bonaparte. good mustache. in two years he had managed to make himself president for life. then crowns himself emperor. 2nd republic only lasts a couple years and he drags france into two wars |
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| Russia had always desired a warm sea port. best place to do so would be on mediterranean. would have to go through turkey. russia goes to war with ottoman empire. britain and france join ottomans. first real war with adequate rifles. florence nightengale and red cross come .of this war |
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| after mexican civil war he is made president of mexico. |
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| sent out to push french from mexico and drive our maximilion |
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| helped push for italian unification. wanted alliance with nappy III |
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| wanted a more liberal army and democracy in italy. ended up stepping aside. italy became a const. monarchy |
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| alexander the liberator, czar of russia. issued emancipation edict. peasants could now own land, marry as they choose. etc. |
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| leaders meet to try to make a more liberal germany. such dreams come to an end, many leaders of this diet move to us. |
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| prussian. leads germany, starts 2 major wars. schleswig-holstein, austro-prussian. |
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| prussians were first to adapt the needle gun. now control all northern germany. |
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| regulated european colonization. coincided with german sudden rise to power. organized by bismarck |
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| split away from radical republican party by babcocks attempt at a treaty. |
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| american civil war general. involved in attempt to annex dominican republic. with out telling Fish, he set up agreement with dominicans. |
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| secretary of war during attempt to annex dominican republic. |
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| over liberating cuba.ow we got the phillipines guam and erto ricopu |
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| land we recieved tha twas once spanish territory |
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| land owners. ha more power than emporer. defacto rulers |
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| code of conduct for samurai. way of life |
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| leader of japan. political and religous emp. much power taken from shogun because of daiyma. served by samrai |
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| emp. tokugawa isolated japan from rest of world against spread of other religions and west civ |
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| served shogun. hereditary military nobility. higher echelons of warriors. |
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| start of russo japanese war. in port arthur manchuria, japanese ships attack russian ones. |
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| great naval battle. japanese fleet destroys almost 2/3 of russian fleet. |
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| end of russo japanese WAR |
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| born with short arm. made up in macho. made fleet that could rival royal navy. did not like rotating allinces. wanted permanent one |
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| england abandoned nuetrality. bury hatched with france. |
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| head of us naval college. told us goal should be to buid large battle fleet. wrote the influence of sea power upon history |
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| book written by alfred thayer mahon. had huge influene on teddy roosevelt and wilhelm II |
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| head of royal navy. undertakes big experiment to make an even greater navy. dreadnought |
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| jackie fisher. better armored, faster. brisish. soon te race became between germany and britain over who could build the most quickest, |
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| heir to throne of austria. assassinated by serbians. sets of wwI |
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| german plan. beat french quickly (come in from belgium, and turn around and beat russia. |
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| marks the end of mobility in WWI. both sides dig in. trench warfare |
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| battle at gallipoli. churchills plan to knock the ottoman empire out of the war and keep russia in it. it was a peninsla in turkey. first time britain used new zelanders and austrailians in |
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| sank by german u-boats, had vacaioning american on board. |
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| treaty between russia and central powers. marked russias exit from war. |
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General John "Black Jack" Pershing |
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