Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Tennis Court Oath- signed by the National Assembly, stated that they will
meet until they write a new constitution for France
Sans-culottes- without breeches member of the Paris Commune who
considered themselves ordinary patriots (wear long trousers instead of fine
knee-length breeches)
Directory- people who ran the French Government according to the
Constitution of 1795 (ran by 5 directories)
Napoleon Bonaparte- French military and political leader who rose to
prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution (overthrew the
5 man directory) and its associated wars in Europe. As Napoleon I, he was
Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1814.
Duke of Wellington- defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo,
Englishman
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen- French Bill of Rights, all
people equal under the law, Provides for Freedom of speech, Freedom of
press, freedom of religion, Protection against arbitrary arrest, Liberty,
Equality, Fraternity!
Maximilien Robespierre: led the Reign of Terror (July: 1793-1794); French
lawyer, later captured and overthrown by the National Convention; killed
40,000 people
Scorched earth policy: a military strategy which involves destroying
anything that might be useful to the enemy
Direct Rule: colonial government in which local rulers are removed from
power and replaced by new set of officials brought from mother country
Mestizos: a person of combined European and Native American descent
White Mans Burden: a poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling
Ch.26-WWII
Marshall Plan: U.S. will give money to help and stabilize war-torn Europe
($13 billion)
Little Red Book: a book of selected statements from speeches and writings by
Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), the former leader of the Chinese Communist
Party, published from 1964 to about 1976 and widely distributed during the
Cultural Revolution
Four Modernizations- agriculture, industry, science, defense
Tiananmen Square: troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on
unarmed civilians trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen
Square in the heart of Beijing, which student demonstrators had occupied for
seven weeks
38th parallel: line at which Korea was divided