Module 13

Front

A political situation in which no one nation is powerful enough to pose a threat to others

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Balance of Power

Front

The use troops or Ships to prevent commercial traffic from entering or leaving a city or region

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Blockade

Front

A formal agreement especially on between the pope and a government, dealing with the control of church officials

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Concordat

Front

a sudden seizure of political power in a nation

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Coup detat

Front

people who leave their native country for political reasons like the nobles and others who fled France during the Peasant uprisings of the French Revolution

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Emigré

Front

One of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution - the first estate consisting of the clergy, the second estate, of the nobility; and the third estate, of the rest of the population

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Estate

Front

an assembly of represantatives from all three of the estates or social classes, in France

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Estates General

Front

a wave of sensless panic that spread through the Franch country side after the storming of the Bastille in 1789

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Great Fear

Front

a machine for beheading people, used as a mean of execution during the French Revolution

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Guillotine

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a member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country

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Guerrilla