MODERN WORLD HISTORY ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
Column 1
Plato
Aristotle
Significance of Law
Views of:
 Judeo-Christianity
 Greeks
 Romans
Monarchy
Divine Right
Aristocracy
Direct Democracy
Indirect Democracy
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
Philosophe
Natural Rights
Reason
Secularism
Social Contract
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Charles Montesquieu
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire
Column 2
Cesare Beccaria
Mary Wollstonecraft
Simon Bolivar
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
English Glorious Revolution
Constitutional Monarchy
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence
French Declaration of Rights
of Man and Citizen
U.S. Bill of Rights
American Revolution
U.S. Constitution
 Popular Sovereignty
 Separation of Powers
 Federalism
 Limited Government
 Judicial Review
French Revolution (Causes
and Effects)
Old Regime (Three Estates)
Estates General
National Assembly
Tennis Court Oath
Fall (Storming) of the Bastille
Great Fear (196)
Column 3
Robespierre
Reign of Terror
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nationalism
Congress of Vienna
Concert of Europe
Revolutions of 1848
Agricultural Revolution
Industrial Revolution
Advantages for England
Manufactured goods
Cottage System
Factory System
Factors of Production
Black Country
James Watt
Eli Whitney
Henry Bessemer
Louis Pasteur
Thomas Edison
Alexander Bell
Samuel Morse
Railroads
Telegraph
urbanization
Social Classes
Working/Living Conditions
Child Labor
MODERN WORLD HISTORY ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
Column 4
Capitalism
Laissez Faire
Corporations
Entrepreneurship
Socialism
Communism
Social Democracy
Reforms
Unions
Utopianism
Romanticism
Social criticism
Imperialism
(Causes/Justifications)
 Nationalism/National
Security
 Missionary Impulse
 Racism/Social Darwinism
 Natural Resources/Land
Enabling factors of
Imperialism
Locations of Imperialism
Berlin Conference
Perspectives of Imperialism
 Colonizer
 Colonized
Column 5
Opium War
Taiping Rebellion
Boxer Rebellion
Sun Yet-Sen
Mohandas Gandhi
Causes of WWI
 Militarism
 Alliances
 Imperialism
 Nationalism
Powder Keg
Franz Ferdinand
Triple Entente
Central Powers
Schlieffen Plan
1st Battle of the Marne
Trench Warfare
Total War
Propaganda
Ration
Battle of Verdun
Battle of Somme
Gallipoli
Unrestricted submarine
warfare
Lusitania
Zimmerman Note
U.S. entering War
Effect of Russian Revolution
on WWI
Column 6
Armenian Genocide
WWI Atrocities
Colonial Participation (WWI)
Treaty of Versailles
Big Four
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Disillusionment
Europe after WWI
Post WWI Art
Lost Generation
Russian Revolution
(Causes/Effects)
Czar Nicholas II
Karl Marx/Communist
Manifesto
Bolsheviks
Vladimir Lenin
Bloody Sunday
Duma
Soviet
Gulag
Joseph Stalin
Totalitarian
5 Year Plan
Collective Farming
Censorship
Secret Police
Terror Famine
Great Purge
MODERN WORLD HISTORY ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
Column 7
Global Depression
Fascism
Dictator
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
1930s Drive for Empire
 Japan
 Germany
 Italy
Rape of Nanking
Appeasement
Non-intervention
Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939
Munich Conference
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
Winston Churchill
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Column 8
Invasion of Poland
Invasion of France
Battle of Britain
Stalingrad
Lend-Lease Act
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Midway
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Anti-Semitism
Holocaust
Kristallnacht
Nuremberg Laws
Ghettos
Final Solution
Concentration Camp
Nuremberg Trials
Bataan Death March
India and Pakistan
Creation of Israel
Suez Crisis
6 day War
Yom Kippur War
Camp David Accords
Palestinian Liberation
Organization
Column 9
Cold War
Satellite Nations
Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong)
Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
Berlin Crisis
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
NATO
Warsaw Pact
SEATO
Korean War
Brinkmanship
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Domino Theory
Detente
Uprisings in
 Poland (1952)
 Hungary (1956)
 Czechoslovakia
(1968)
Glasnost
Perestroika
Middle East
UN Charter