World History - 2nd Semester Review (Vocab)

this refers to large, government owned farms?

90,000 frostbitten, half-starved German troops surrendered to what country?

Thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method 

What Russian leader organized his own police force whose duty was to hunt down traitors?

In March 1918, Russia and ___________ signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

_____________, invented in 1884, was the world's first automatic machine gun

By November 1917, who seized power in Russia?

A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians

Who published Institutes of the Christian Religion? 

The period of Robespierre's rule

A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts 

What countries strategic location appeared valuable to France and Britain?

A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism

Armed with pitchforks and other farm tools, they broke into nobles homes and documents

The use of troops or ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering a region

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically 

A form of complete socialism in which the means of production would be owned by the people

A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people and wealthy farmers

Who believed that it was his duty to defend Catholicism against the Muslims

The big winner in the War of the Spanish Succession was whom?

Who headed the Kuomintang?

What Soviet leader sent troops to occupy the eastern half of Poland?

The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers Party

The factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all

The resources that are needed to produce goods and services

A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust

The study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation

About what % of the people of France belonged to the 3rd estate?

The practice of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime

Refers to the economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions

At least how many million Congolese died due to the abuses inflicted during Leopold's rule?

An independent geopolitical unit of people having a common culture and identify

The shift from making goods by hand to making them by machine

Who painted portraits of wealthy middle-class merchants?

The agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, 

Who believed that without wars and epidemics to kill off people, most were going to be poor?

Who invented the power loom?

The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit

The process of developing machine production of goods

The everyday language of people in a region or country

A political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others

A wealthy noble who wanted to preserve the traditional monarchies of Europe

Kuomintang refers to what?

A sudden seizure of political power in a nation

King or Queens who held all of the power within their states boundaries

Who was just 24 when he became the sole ruler of Russia?

For generations, many Germans, along with other Europeans, had targeted what group?

Who invented a spinning wheel he named after his daughter?

At the Treaty of Versailles, the Allied leaders gave whom the territories were Germanies?

A person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

The invention of the ____________ allowed Europeans to easily travel on rivers?

An adoption of the social, political, or economic institutions of Western countries

A 16th century movement for religious reform leading to rejecting Pope's authority

8.5 million soldiers died in what war?

Martin Luther wrote what famous document that attacked "pardon - merchants"?

Who was known as Madame deficit?

An assembly of representatives from all three estates

The perfection of this drug protected Europeans from becoming infected with Malaria?

A period of European history, lasting from about 1300 to 1600

What painter painted the Mona Lisa?

Who was the leader of Germany's Afrika Korps?

The Prussian commanders threatened to destroy what French city (French Revolution)?

A merchant who wanted to give political power to parliament

A logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world

Who wrote about a poor Spanish Nobleman who went crazy after reading about heroic knights?

A member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops

A system in which the government made all economic decisions is a _________________

The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war

The nobles owned what % of the land and paid almost no taxes?

A philosophy based on the idea that nothing can be known for certain

Who invented the printing press?

Who increased his mutton output by allowing only his best sheep to breed?

A policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries

How many times was King Henry VIII married?

A self-described "Holy Man" who claimed to have magical powers?

The systematic killing of a racial, ethnic, or religious group

The belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation

What French King borrowed heavily to help the American Revolutionaries?

To the Nazis, the Germanic peoples who formed a "Master race"

City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live

A government in which the ruler is viewed as a divine figure

A European who favored drastic change to extend democracy to all people

A German submarine had sunk the British passenger ship________which killed 128 U.S. citizens?

Who shot the archduke and his wife?

This set impossibly high quotas to increase the output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity?

The Zimmerman Note stated that what country would help "reconquer" the land it had lost?

What President declared December 7,1941 as a "date that will live in infamy"?

Government control over every aspect of public and private life

Economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned

In the 1300s, the bubonic plague struck European cities hard, killing what % of the people?

Between 5 and 10 million peasants died as a direct result of what leaders?

Machine of execution born in France

What President forced Japanese Americans into internment camps?

What President said he wanted to educate the Filipinos?

Napoleon's policy of preventing trade between Great Britain and continental Europe

How many Jews died in death camps and Nazi massacres?

A person who supports artists, especially financially

Who invented the seed drill that allowed farmers to sow seeds in well-spaced rows?

The Roman Catholic Church owned what percent of the land in France?