ABC's of World History

A-BSOLUTE MONARCHY

• a ruler w/ unrestricted power

B-ill of RIghts

• first ten amendments
• outlines rights & government limitations

C-ommunism

• goods are shared equally

D-emocratic Republic

• people have certain rights

E-nlightenment

• intellectual interchange

F-ree Enterprise

• free actions of producers & comsumerss

G-reat Depression

• people loose jobs & starve
• very hard time for a lot of people

H-olocaust

• killing of millions of jews

I-mperialism

• taking over a country thats not yours

J-ames Watt

• created steam engine
• provided power for industrial revolution

K-arl Marx

• wrote The Communist Manifesto

L-eague of Nations

• peace keepers for intonational conflicts

M-iddle Passage

• rout for shipping Africans to America

N-apolen

• introduced ideas for French Revolution
• ended federal restrictions

O-ttomam Empire

P-earl Harbor

• us military bombed by Japan
• lacked natural resources

Q-ueen Elizabeth

• head of the UK & 15 other realms

R-ussian Revolution

• war from 1917-18
• ended ling reign of tsars

S-cientific Revolution

• nature observations & hypotheses testing
• we learned a lot about the world around us

T-rench Warfare

• fighting in the ground
• helps armies live longer

U-SSR

• the soviet union
• they were always at war

V-J day

• the day that ended World War 2
• peace was made between the countries

W-orld War 1

• war between allies from 1914-18

X-enophobia

• fear of foreigners
• started a lot of conflict

Y-alta Conference

• conference between Joseph Stalin and others
• important agreements were made

Z-HENG HE

• Chinese navle explore
• travled to a lot of places