Concentration Camps. 1862-65 USA. 1899-1902. British internment of Boers in South Africa. 1922-91. USSR. 1933-45 Nazi prisons for extermination and slave labour. Buchenwald. Auschwitz. Dachau. 1942-6 US Relocation Centers. 1942-46 Canada. 1950’s Kenya. 1973 Chile.

Concorde. 1962-76. French/British joint development of a supersonic airliner.

Confederacy. 1861-5. Rebel US government in American Civil War.

Confederation Group. 19C Canadian nationalistic poets. Carmen.

Congress, US. Senate and House of Representatives. Legislative branch of government.

Constantinople Agreements. 1915. Secret French/British pact to give Dardanelles to Russia after WWI. Bolsheviks repudiated all previous treaties, but publicized secret ones-embarrassing.

Constitution, US. 1787. Effective 1789. Defines government, liberties, basic laws. Amendments I-X 1791 Bill of Rights. XIII 1865 Abolishes slavery. XVIII 1919 Prohibition. XIX 1920 Women suffrage. XXI 1933 Repeals Prohibition. XXVI 1971 Voting age 18.

Constitutional Convention. 1787. Philadelphia. Amended Articles of Confederation. Constitution.

Continental Congress. 1774-89. US Government until Constitution approved. Proclaimed Declaration of Independence.

Convention Parliament. 1660. Restored monarchy. William and Mary 1689.

Copland, Aaron. 1900-90. US composer blending Jewish, folk, jazz, and Latin influences into a popular style. Experimented with serial techniques.

Corporate State. Mussolini economic system. Capitalist elements in state controlled economy.

Cosmological Argument. God exists as first cause.

Council of Ten. c1310-1797. Powerful Venetian tribunal. Investigated aristocratic plots vs government.

Council of the Republic. 1917. Russian provisional government.

Country Party. 1913-. Australian pro-agriculture party. Small but influential in coalition governments.

Coup d’État. Overthrow of existing government by force.

Cromwell, Oliver. 1599-1658. Led revolution in England, 1649. Lord Protector of the Realm, 1653-. Commonwealth Head of Government, 1649-. Signed Charles I death warrant.

Culpeper’s Rebellion. 1677-79. Carolina colonists vs England. Establish their own government.

Cultural Revolution. 1966-9. Mao’s Red Guards purge China of bourgeois, capitalist elements.

Curragh Incident. 1914. 57 British army officers resign rather than fight Ulstermen.

Dail Eireann. 1919. Irish national parliament.

Daladier, Édouard. 1884-1970. French Prime Minister, 1933~40. Munich Agreement.

Dalou, Jules. 1838-1902. French Baroque sculptor of public monuments.

Danegeld. Anglo-Saxon tax 991-1012 to buy off Norse attacks. Heregeld, 1012-51 to raise A-S army vs Norse.

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