Cleomenes III. -c219BC. Spartan King 235-222. Defeated Achaean League. Lost to Macedonia.

Clymene. Nymph. Mother of Atlas and Prometheus.

CND. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Colchester. Pre-Roman Belgic capital. First Roman settlement in Britain.

Cold War. 1946-90. Alternating crisis and detente between west and east, begun with Russia breaking Potsdam Agreement and creating communist regimes in East Germany and Czechoslovakia.

Comenius, John. 1592-1670. Czech founder of direct method of language education. First use of pictures.

Commonwealth. 1649-60. Government of England after Charles I executed. Cromwell.

Commune, Paris. 1871. Revolutionary government formed when Thiers abandoned Paris to Prussians. Crushed 2 months later by McMahon. 20,000 killed.

Communist Manifesto. 1848. Marx and Engels call for Proletariat to control business and government.

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.

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.

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