AP EURO DBQ/LEQ

Enlightenment

• philosophical and intellectual movement

• 17th and 18th centuries

• sought to improve society with fact-based reason and inquiry

• promoted ideas like liberty, progress, and tolerance

Cold War

• intense geopolitical rivalry between US and the Soviet Union and their allies

• 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union

• started because of ideological differences, distrust arising from wartime alliances, and post-war division of Europe

• ended after internal pressures within Soviet Union, and external factors, particularly Mikhail Gorbachev’s leadership and policies

Revolutions of 1848

• a series of republican revolts against European monarchies

• demands for political reform, national independence, social justive, and economic stability.

• key groups were the middle (political and economic reforms) and working (living and working conditions) classes

• revolutions of 1848 were a series of revolutions that broke out all across Europe and basically they were revolutions against the monarchies fueled by new liberalist ideas

Nationalism

• political ideology that emphasizes the interests and culture of a particular nation

• involves a strong identification with one's own nation, often leading to the pursuit of sovereignty