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2) called Soviet Union "evil empire" and began a military buildup and arms race; record gov't budget deficits
3) French philosopher; work = Discourse on Method, "I think, therefore I am"; separation from mind and matter; father of modern rationalism, reason is chief source of knowledge
4) work= General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money; defect spending
5) best-known Christian humanist with "philosophy of Christ"; work= Praise of Folly; singled out monks
7) Italian who taught mathematics; used telescope; work = The Starry Messenger- 1610; under criticism of Catholic Church
8) determined to support Serbia's cause; ordered partial mobilization of Russian army against Austria-Hungary- July 28; then full mobilization against Austria-Hungary and Germany- July 29
9) father of Italian Renaissance humanism (study of the classics) with pure Latin; civic life
10) US general who moved into Philippines with island-hopping
11) leader of Roundheads and military genius of New Model Army; declared England a commonwealth
12) set up first European fascist movement in Italy; fascism - glorifies state above individual; Victor Emanuel III, king of Italy, made him prime minister of Italy; supported Catholic Church; secret police= OVRA; Il Duce- "the leader"; recognized Vatican City
13) bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki; bombings ended WWII; Truman Doctrine- policy to support free peoples resisting subjugation; asked for 40 million in aid for Greece and Turkey
15) Austrian foreign minister; most influential leader at meeting in Vienna; wanted lawful monarchs from royal families
16) a worker in Poland who organized a national trade union known as Solidarity; this gained support of Catholic Church; chosen as president of Poland in 1990
17) Democratic president with New Deal; increased program of public works with Works Progress Administration; new social legislation with US welfare system; isolationism and neutrality acts
19) Scottish engineer who improved the steam engine to help the cotton industry
21) conquered Incas and their leader Atahuallpa; took advantage of their civil war
24) during Baroque period; Italian architect and sculptor; completed St. Peter's Basilica, Throne of Saint Peter
26) work= On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; organic evolution; natural selection
28) rival of Leon Trotsky and Politburo member; 1924= party general secretary who appointed party officials; used job to gain control of Communist Party; Five-Year Plans-economic goals; Collectivization
29) Hindu from South Africa who was active in independence movement for India; nonviolent resistance
31) joined German Workers' party; work = Mein Kampf, extreme German nationalism; became largest party in Reichstag; Enabling Act; concentration camps; Aryan race;
33) prime minister of Japan who opposed female employment
35) Cuban Missile Crisis, found out about Soviet ships that contained missiles on way to Cuba and blockaded Cuba; youngest elected president in history; Lyndon B. Johnson took over when he was assassinated
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1) young journalist to try and look for David Livingstone, explorer of Africa; famous for "Dr. Livingstone, I presume"; carried on Livingstone's work; hated Africa
6) 1979- conservatives came to power with her; Britain's first female prime minister; Thatcherism (her economic policy) improved British economic situation; 1990- anti tax riots broke out and she resigned
14) tried to avoid a conflict with Japan so he could deal with Communists; when war came with Japan he refused to surrender
18) French war hero who helped to establish the Fourth Republic, which was largely ineffective; then drafted a new constitution for Fifth Republic, which enhanced power of president; heavy in nuclear arms
20) leader of Bolsheviks; dedicated to violent revolution; wanted to destroy capitalism; renamed Communists; civil war in Russia
22) Spanish conquerer of Mexico; wanted conversion of natives; landed 1st at Veracruz and marched to Tenochtitlan; conquered Aztecs and Montezuma
23) work = Two Treatises of Government, also, Essay Concerning Human Understanding - with tabula rasa or blank mind; natural rights: life, liberty, and property; gov't with natural obligations
25) began Reformations of Catholic Church in 1500s; University of Wittenberg; ninety-five theses; justification by faith alone; made outlaw @ Edict of Worms; Lutheranism and Protestantism
27) was opposed by nobles; absolutist monarch; forced to call meeting or Estates-General; Tennis Court Oath against him; house at Versailles; beheaded with the guillotine by the Mountain
28) summary of Protestant thought = Institutes of Christian Religion; also justification by faith alone; predestination; Calvinism; Geneva, Switzerland
30) work= Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, or, Principia; universal law of gravitation; world machine
32) SS leader; came to control regular and secret police; terror and ideology; wanted to further Aryan race
34) son of James of England; believed in divine right of kings
36) gained independence for 5 nations in South America
37) huguenot political leader, realized would never be accepted by Catholic France, so he converted to Catholicism; issued Edict of Nantes- recognized Catholicism as official religion of France
38) he labeled earlier reformers utopian socialists; one of the authors of The Communist Manifesto
39) German emperor who gave Austria-Hungary a blank check with full support if war broke out
40) example of absolutism in France; leader @ age of four with Cardinal Mazarin ad chief minister; "Sun King"; house @Versailles; anti-Protestant
41) ascended to English throne in 1558, leader of Protestant nations; a Tudor
42) French biologist who proposed the germ theory of disease
43) czar- 1689; Romanov absolutist monarch; visited West; wanted to westernize Russia with military and technology; capital @ St. Petersburg
44) longest reign in English history; national pride; Victorian Age
45) polish mathematician with heliocentric model of universe; work = On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
46) won presidency after Clinton and dealt with 9/11
47) new Prussian prime minister under King William I; realpolitik "politics of reality"; 1862-1866- governed without approval of parliament
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