Other AP Euro stuff

Traits of New Monarchs

Established monopolies on tax collection, employed military force, dispensed justice, and gained the right to determine the religion of their subjects

Enconmienda System

A men gained land and natives that lived on that land became unpaid laborers

Corrupt Church Practices

Simony → buying and selling of church offices

Indulgences → purchasing someone's way to heaven

Martin Luthers Doctrines

Solar Scriptura (Scripture alone) → final authority for Christans was the bible

Council of Trent

Addressed Protestant issues of the church

• Suppressed practices of Simony

• Reestablished the celebacy of preisthood

• Cleaned up practice of selling indulgences

• Emphasis of 7 sacraments

Rationalism

Everything in the human life could and should be sumbitted by reason

Enlightenment God Theorys

• Diesm - created by Voltaire; Gods was like a clockmaker who set up the universe but doesnt intervene in it

• Skepticism - since God can't be perceived through our senses they are not legitimate articles of knowledge

• Atheism - belief that no God exists

• Pietism - believing in God wasn't about belonging to a church but a Mystical personal religious experience
  

Neoclassism

Prized simplicity and symmetry

Reason for Second Imperalism

• Economic - states needed raw material and markets

• Political - scramble for Africa caused tensions between states

• Racial Superiority - social darwanism motivated everyone to takeover “weaker nations”
  

Dawes Plan

Germany paid the repirations it needed and U.S. provided money to them

Causes of WWII

• Territorial Expansion - took over Austria, Sudentland, parts of Czechlovakia

Truman Doctrine

Any country who felt threatened by communism would recieve financial and military assistance from the U.S.

International Monetary Fund IMF

Facilitated internatjonal currency exchange and promoted global tradeto ensure financial stability

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)

Soviet Bloc response to Western nations; goal was to bind Soviet States into mutually reinforcing economic system which would make them dependent on the Soviet Union

Warsaw Pact

A military alliance of communist nations in Eastern Europe formed in response to NATO

Stagflation

Economies of Western Europe were no longer growing (stagnant) but prices were rising like mad (inflation)

Feminism

• 1st Wave - first part of 19th century goal was mostly to gain the right to vite

• 2nd Wave - focused on societal issues like education lawes, marriage laws, and professional careers
  

Globalization

Describes the increased economic, political, and social interconnectedness of the world cuased my multinational corporations, international governing bodies, communication and transportation technologies