AP Euro #5

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

• Peace treaty signed in March 1918 between the Central Powers and Russia that ceded Russian territories containing a lot of Russians

• The treaty that ended the Seven Years' War in Europe and the colonies in 1763 and ratified British victory on all colonial fronts

• The 1494 agreement giving Spain everything to the west of and imaginary line and giving Portugal everything to the east

• The 1919 peace Settlement that ended war between Germany and the Allied powers

Treaty of Paris

• Peace treaty signed in March 1918 between the Central Powers and Russia that ceded Russian territories containing a lot of Russians

• The treaty that ended the Seven Years' War in Europe and the colonies in 1763 and ratified British victory on all colonial fronts

• The 1494 agreement giving Spain everything to the west of and imaginary line and giving Portugal everything to the east

• The 1919 peace Settlement that ended war between Germany and the Allied powers

Treaty of Tordesillas

• Peace treaty signed in March 1918 between the Central Powers and Russia that ceded Russian territories containing a lot of Russians

• The treaty that ended the Seven Years' War in Europe and the colonies in 1763 and ratified British victory on all colonial fronts

• The 1494 agreement giving Spain everything to the west of and imaginary line and giving Portugal everything to the east

• The 1919 peace Settlement that ended war between Germany and the Allied powers

Treaty of Versailles

• Peace treaty signed in March 1918 between the Central Powers and Russia that ceded Russian territories containing a lot of Russians

• The treaty that ended the Seven Years' War in Europe and the colonies in 1763 and ratified British victory on all colonial fronts

• The 1494 agreement giving Spain everything to the west of and imaginary line and giving Portugal everything to the east

• The 1919 peace Settlement that ended war between Germany and the Allied powers

Triple Alliance

• The alliance of Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Yugoslavia in the First World War

• The alliance of Austria, Germany, and Italy

• The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the First World War

• The alliance of seven northern provinces that declared its independence from Spain and formed the United Provinces of the Netherlands

Triple Entente

• The alliance of Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Yugoslavia in the First World War

• The alliance of Austria, Germany, and Italy

• The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the First World War

• The alliance of seven northern provinces that declared its independence from Spain and formed the United Provinces of the Netherlands

Truman Doctrine

• America's policy geared to containing communism to those countries already under Soviet control

• Doctrine that held that the Soviet Union had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever it saw the need

• America's policy that asserted their intention to stay out of the European political melting pot

• Doctrine that held that the Soviet Union would be able to conquer any country and name it a socialist satalite

Union of Utrecht

• The alliance of Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Yugoslavia in the First World War

• The alliance of Austria, Germany, and Italy

• The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the First World War

• The alliance of seven northern provinces that declared its independence from Spain and formed the United Provinces of the Netherlands

Utilitarianism

• The liberalization of the post-Stalin Soviet Union led by reformer Nikita Khrushchev

• The principle that buildings, like industrial products, should serve as well as possible

• The idea of Jeremy Bentham that social policies should promote the greatest good for the greatest number

• An effort by moderate socialists to update Marxian doctrines to reflect the realities of the 20th century

Viceroyalties

• The name for the four administrative units of Spanish possessions in the Americas

• The executive officer in each of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, a position often held by the princes of Orange

• The nobility of Brandenburg and Prussia, they were reluctant allies of Frederick William in his consolidation of the Prussian state

• The core of the sultan's army, composed of slave conscripts from non-Muslim parts of the empire