Global Regents words

Containment

• Stopping the spread of communism during the Cold War

Appeasement

Giving into an aggressor to keep the peace

Autocracy

Dictatorship; rule by one person

Moderate stage

• First stage of the French Rev (1789-1792)

• Relatively calm - trying to limit the power of the king

• 3rd Estate created a National Assembly

• Tennis Court Oath; Storming of the Bastille

Radical stage

• The Reign of Terror (1793-1794)

• Violent and chaotic

• Led by Maximilien  Robespierre

Napoleon

• Brought stability and order back to France

• Spread his Napoleonic Code as he conquered much of Europe.

• Big Mistake - Invading Russia

Bourgeoise

• Educated middle class (part of the 3rd Estate)

Nanj(k)ing (treaty)

• Ended the Opium Wars

• China was carved into spheres of influence.

• British take Hong Kong

Kanagawa (treaty)

• Japan was feudal and isolated under the Tokugawa Shogunate (capital Edo).

• U.S. (Matthew Perry) - opens up Japan

• Led to the Meiji Restoration

Versailles (treaty)

• End of WWI.

• Germany gets punished (reparations)

  • led to the rise of Hitler and WWII.

• New nations are created and empires are broken up

Suffrage

The right to vote

Abolition

• To ban something

  • Usually in the context of slavery

  • Ex: William Wilberforce in Britain wanted to abolish slavery

Sovereignty

• The authority of a country to control its own government, territory, and people.

  • Think imperialism & decolonization

5 year plan

• Stalin’s plans to industrialize and modernize the USSR.

• Collectivization - communism

4 modernizations

• Deng Xiaoping's policies to modernize China

• Allowed limited capitalism

• Opened up special economic zones

14 points

• Woodrow Wilson’s post-WWI plans

• Created a League of Nations - to avoid further war

• Failure of the League was a cause of WWII.

Tyranny/tyrant

• Leader who rules with an iron fist

• Treats people with brutality; lack of human rights

Detente

• Period of calm; easing of tensions during the Cold War

• S.A.L.T. I & II; space programs; sports; pandasLaissez

Laissez faire

• Government does not get involved in business

• Free market capitalism

Adam Smith- The Wealth of Nations