Modern European History

Mr. Mouer

Spring 2003

Review List

The Balance of Power in Eighteenth-Century Europe

War of Spanish Succession

Treaty of Utrecht

Great Northern War

Treaty of Nystad

Romanovs

Peter the Great

Table of Ranks

serfs

St. Petersburg

Catherine the Great

Charter of the Nobility

Pugachev’s Revolt

Junker

Elector Frederick William

Frederick William I

Frederick II (the Great)

Charles VI

Maria Theresa

Joseph II

War of Austrian Succession

Great Britain

The British Constitution

House of Commons

House of Lords

Whigs

Tories

James III

George I

Sir Robert Walpole

Seven Years War

War of American Independence

Culture and Society in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Enlightenment

Salons

Deism

philosophes

Thomas Hobbes

Denis Diderot

Voltaire

John Locke

Baron Montesquieu

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Cesare Beccaria

Mary Wollstonecraft

Adam Smith

enlightened despots

Nobility

Primogeniture

Bourgeoisie

The masses

Thomas Malthus

Population growth

Agricultural changes

Popular culture

literacy

French Revolution & Napoleon

Louis XV

Seven Years War

Louis XVI

War of American Independence

Old Regime (ancien regime)

parlements

First Estate

Second Estate

Third Estate

Abbe Sieyes

Gabriel Victor de Mirabeau

bourgeoisie

Estates General

the "Tennis Court Oath"

National Assembly

the Bastille

the Great Fear

August Decrees

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

Constitution of 1791

Legislative Assembly

departements

counter revolution

Franco-Austrian War

September Massacres

National Convention

Jacobins

Girondins

First Republic

Maximilien Robespierre

"the Mountain" & "the Plain"

Committee of Public Safety

Reign of Terror

Republic of Virtue

Constitution of 1795

the Directory

Napoleon Bonaparte

First Consul

plebiscite

Emperor Napoleon I

Reforms

Concordat of 1801

Code Napoleon

University of France

the Grand Empire

War of the Third Coalition

Battle of Trafalgar

Confederation of the Rhine

Continental System

Peninsular War

Sir Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington)

Russian campaign

Battle of the Nations

Elba

Louis XVIII

the Restoration of the Bourbons

the Hundred Days

von Blucher

Waterloo

St. Helena

Industrial Revolution

Traditional economy

Rural manufacture

Cottage industry

Putting out system

Agricultural revolution

Open field farming

Enclosure

Four course rotation

Convertible husbandry

Meadow floating

Fodder crops

Britain first

Cotton

Flying shuttle

Spinning jenny

Water frame spinning machine

Richard Arkwright

Spinning mule

Cotton gin

Factories

Steam power

Iron

Coal

coke

Watts’ steam engine

Train

Stephenson

Robert Owen

Edwin Chadwick

Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Laboring Population in Britain

Friedrich Engels

Urbanization

English Factory Acts

Ten Hours Law

Mines Act

Health Act

New Poor Law

Vaccination Act

Contagious Diseases Act

Crystal Palace Exhibition

The Continent and Eastern Europe

Social Transformations and Political Upheavals, 1815-1850

Congress of Vienna

1^st Peace of Paris

2^nd Peace of Paris

Great Powers

Concert of Europe

Thomas Malthus

Liberalism

Nationalism

Romanticism

Conservatism

Socialism

Views of:

Human nature

Role of government

Individual rights

Revolutions of 1830

Charles X

Louis-Philippe (Duke of Orlean)

July Monarchy

British Corn Laws

Rotten boroughs

Great Reform Bill of 1832

Chartists

People’s Charter

Revolutions of 1848

Banquet campaign

Provisional Government

National workshops

Second Republic

Louis Napoleon

Frankfurt Assembly

Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm IV

Giuseppe Mazzini

Young Italy

Giuseppi Garibaldi

Red Shirts

State-Building and Social Change in Europe, 1850-1871

Piedmont-Sardinia

Victor Emmanuel II

Camillo Benso di Cavour

Napoleon III

Nice & Savoy

Giuseppi Garibaldi

Otto von Bismarck

Zollverein

Schleswig & Holstein

Seven Weeks War

Confederation of Northern German States

Franco-Prussian War

Alsace-Lorraine

Second Reich

Nationalism

Louis Napoleon

Napoleon III

Second Empire

Realism

Charles Dickens

Charles Darwin

Natural selection

Evolution

Thomas Malthus

Karl Marx

The Crisis of European Culture, 1871-1914

Social Darwinism

Marie Curie

Pierre Curie

Max Planck

Albert Einstein

Niels Bohr

Relativity

Psychology

Sigmund Freud

Unconscious

Id

Ego

superego

Psychoanalysis

"new" imperialism

technology

economics

geopolitics

nationalism

Social Darwinism

Colony

protectorate

sphere of influence

Leopold II

Berlin Conference

Suez Canal

Cecil Rhodes

Boer War

British East India Company

Indian National Congress

Mohandas K. Ghandi

Opium War

"Open Door"

Russo-Japanese War

The Three Emperors’ League

Triple Alliance

Balkan Crises

Triple Entente

War and Revolution, 1914-1920

Austria-Hungary (Dual Monarchy)

Serbia

Pan-Slavism

Bismarck

Triple Alliance

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Triple Entente

Balkan Crises

Arms race

Military timetables

Schlieffen Plan

Mobilization

Gavrilo Princip

Defensive weapons

Attrition

Trench warfare

The Marne

Verdun

The Somme

Eastern Front

Russian Revolution

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Gallipoli

Winston Churchill

Jutland

U-Boats

Total war

Home front

Blockades

Unrestricted submarine warfare

Zimmermann note

Belleau Wood

Peace Conference

Woodrow Wilson

Fourteen Points

Self-determination

Treaty of Versailles

Rhineland

Saar Basin

Alsace-Lorraine

League of Nations

Mandates

Poland

Disarmament

Reparations

War Guilt Clause

Tsar Nicholas II

Revolution of 1905

Imperial Duma

Rasputin

March Revolution

Provisional Government

Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (Lenin)

"Peace, Land, Bread"

Bolsheviks

Soviets

Red Guards

Leon Trotsky

Josef Stalin

October Revolution

Russian Civil War

Reds

Whites

The European Search for Stability, 1920-193

Instability

Economy

Ethnic tensions

Inflation

Debt

League of Nations

Gustav Stresemann

Ruhr Valley

Maginot Line

Locarno Pact

Dawes Plan

Young Plan

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Great Depression

Lenin

Politburo

Josef Stalin

Trotsky

War Communism

New Economic Policy

Politburo

Commintern

Five Year Plans

Collectivization

Purges

Fascism

Mussolini

Black Shirts

March on Rome

"Il Duce"

the "Roman Question"

1929 Lateran Accords

Albania

Ethiopia

Weimar Republic

Adolf Hitler

Beer Hall Putsch

Paul von Hindenburg

Franz von Papen

Reichstag fire

S.A.

S.S.

Heinrich Himmler

Lebensraum

Rearmament

Joseph Goebbels

Hitler Youth

Nuremburg Laws

Kristallnacht

Spanish Civil War

Gen. Francisco Franco

Nationalists

Republicans

Guernica

Global Conflagration: World War II, 1939-1945

League of Nations

Rearmament

Appeasement

Anschluss

Czechoslovakia

Sudetenland

Neville Chamberlain

Munich Agreement

Poland

Danzig

East Prussia

Pact of Steel

German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

Blitzkrieg

Luftwaffe

Winston Churchill

Dunkirk

Battle of France

Marshal Petain

Vichy France

Occupied France

Gen. Charles DeGaulle

Free French

Battle of Britain

RAF

Herman Goering

Yugoslavia

The Resistance

Partisans

Operation Barbarossa

The Balkans

Leningrad

"New order"

Holocaust

The "Final Solution"

Pearl Harbor

Midway

Stalingrad

El Alamein

D-Day

Normandy

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

Big Three

Casablanca Conference

Teheran Conference

Yalta Conference

Potsdam Conference

Postwar Recovery and Crisis: From the Cold War to the New Europe, 1945-1968

United Nations

Cold War

Iron Curtain

Satellite states

NATO
CENTO
SEATO

Warsaw Pact

Berlin Airlift

Brinksmanship

Federal Republic of Germany

German Democratic Republic

Cuban Missile Crisis

Arms race

Space race

Sputnik

Proxy wars

Berlin Wall

Czechoslovakia

Prague Spring

Vaclav Havel

Marshall Plan

ECSC

EEC

Common Market

EC
EU

Welfare State

Youth Culture

Protests of 1968

Europe Faces the Future: Hope and Uncertainty,1968 to the Present

Détente

SALT 1 & 2

START

ABM

SDI

Mikhail Gorbachev

Glasnost

Perestroika

Poland

Lech Walesa

Solidarity

Pope John Paul II

Helmut Kohl

Reunification