Notes I wrote on Modern World History from the Enlightenment to the Great Depression. These are short summaries and bites to help retain the information. Topics include Kant, French Philosophers, the general will, events leading to the storming of the Bastille, French Revolution, Girondists & Jacobins, Robespierre, Napoleon. Napoleon's wars, Russia, Leipzig, Waterloo. Bourbon Restoration. Congress of Vienna. Metternich. Quadruple alliance. Revolutions in Spain, Italy. Monroe Doctrine. Greek rebellion. Belgian independence. Polish revolution. Bourgeois monarch in France. 1848 revolution. Second and third French Republic. Dreyfuss Affair. Reform Bills in Britain. People's charter. Disraeli. voting rights. Russian Pale of Settlement. Cantonists. Abolition of serfdom. Pogroms. Industrial revolution. Spinning Jenny. cotton gin. Steam engine. Worker's rights. Jeremy Bentham. Utopian socialism. Karl Marx. Darwin. Herbert Spencer. White man's burden. Otto von Bismarck, German imperialism, kulturkampf. Habsburgs, 1867 compromise. Unification of Italy. Mazzini, Garibaldi, Cavour. World War I. Stock market crash 1929.
