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Exam 3 | HIST 150 - The West in the World., Quizzes of World History

Created April 8, 2010 Class: HIST 150 - The West in the World.; Subject: HISTORY; University: Ball State University; Term: Spring 2010;

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TERM 1
The Philippines
DEFINITION 1
a. part of the new empire, the beginning of world war I
TERM 2
"A whiff of grapeshot"
DEFINITION 2
a. trying to get rid of Bonaparte
TERM 3
Frankfurt Diet
DEFINITION 3
a. debate of creation of unified Germany b. The men elected
to this were mostly dreamers rather than practical politians
TERM 4
Jethro Tull
DEFINITION 4
Englishman apart of the agriculturerevolution invented four
crop rotation and seed drill
TERM 5
Committee of Public Safety
DEFINITION 5
The Committee of Public Safety or Cops, (), created in April
1793 by the National Convention and then restructured July
1793, formed the de facto executive government of France
during the Reign of Terror (1793-4), a stage of the French
Revolution. A. French Radicals
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The Philippines

a. part of the new empire, the beginning of world war I TERM 2

"A whiff of grapeshot"

DEFINITION 2 a. trying to get rid of Bonaparte TERM 3

Frankfurt Diet

DEFINITION 3 a. debate of creation of unified Germany b. The men elected to this were mostly dreamers rather than practical politians TERM 4

Jethro Tull

DEFINITION 4 Englishman apart of the agriculturerevolution invented four crop rotation and seed drill TERM 5

Committee of Public Safety

DEFINITION 5 The Committee of Public Safety or Cops, (), created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured July 1793, formed the de facto executive government of France during the Reign of Terror (1793-4), a stage of the French Revolution. A. French Radicals

The Influence of Sea Power upon History

Alfred Thayer Mahan Read by Roosevelt and Kaiser Wilhelm II TERM 7

William Pitt the elder

DEFINITION 7 1757-1761 Wanted to focus on the New World Was Prime minister in 1757 Acquired Canada and India in the Seven Years War TERM 8

The Bastille

DEFINITION 8 A royal armory filled with arms and ammunition- located in Paris Served as state prison TERM 9

Storming of the Bastille

DEFINITION 9 1789- 8000 people mobbed it in search of weapons De Lunauy tried to defend, but surrendered after three hours Saved the third estate from Louis XIV's counterrecolution TERM 10

The Directory (France)

DEFINITION 10 Era of stagnation, corruption, and graft Unable to find solution to economic problems by the other governments before it and Reign of Terror Relied on military for power

Battle of Waterloo

French under Napoleon defeated by armies of the Seventh Coalitionagains Anglo Allied and Prussian army Napoleon's last battle, marked his hundred days TERM 17

Hundred Days

DEFINITION 17 The hundred days Napoleon returned to France before once again exiled TERM 18

Seventh Coalition

DEFINITION 18 group formed by the states that opposed Napoleon TERM 19

Alexander Graham Bell

DEFINITION 19 Invented the telephone in 1876 TERM 20

Social Darwinism

DEFINITION 20 strongst or fittest should survive and flourish in society while the weak and unfit should be allowed to die Herbert Spencer

Crimean War

1853 the Russians demanded the right to protect Christian shrines in Palestine Ottomans refused and the russians invaded Then Turks declared war on Russia Then the following year Great Britain and France declared war on Russia- Treaty of Paris was signed then TERM 22

Philip Sheridan

DEFINITION 22 civil war general, Robert E. Lee surrenders to TERM 23

Giuseppe Garibaldi

DEFINITION 23 Leader of Italian unification TERM 24

Austro-Prussian War

DEFINITION 24 Austria and Prussia were the only two states powerful enough to unify Germany