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Hindenburg Line. 1917. German army’s Western Front. Breached 1918.
Holy Roman Empire. 962-1806. Germanic Empire with elected king. Successor to Western Roman Empire. Geographically: Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria; most of Italy, Bohemia; part of France. Hapsburg. Austrian Empire.
Hutterites. 16C-. Communal Hungarian Anabaptist sect. 1870s moved to Western North America.
Iron Curtain. 1946. Churchill’s name for Russia’s increasing influence in Eastern Europe. Dining à la Russe refers to carving being done behind an iron screen.
Ito Hirobumi. 1841-1909. Westernizing Japanese statesman. First Parliament 1890.
Jerusalem, Synod. 1672. Eastern Orthodox Church denounces Calvinism and Lutheranism.
Justinian. 483-565. Eastern Roman Emperor, conquered Africa and Italy. Codified Roman law 529. Closed all non-Christian schools, beginning Dark Ages. Nika Riot. Corpus Juris Civilis. Hagia Sophia. Digest 553. Ulpian.
K’ang-hsi. 1654-1722. Chinese Emperor 1661-. Expanded China. Encouraged western science education.
Leo III, St. -816. Pope 795-. Crowned Charlemagne recreating Western Roman Empire.
Makarios III. 1913-77. Orthodox archbishop. Pro-Greek Cyprus president 1959-.
Mannerheim Line. Eastern Finnish fortification. Crossed by Russians 1940.
May Fourth Movement. 1915-21. Chinese intellectuals for modernization, westernization, freedom for women.
Mazowiecki, Tadeusz. 1927-. Polish Prime Minister 1989. First non-communist Prime Minister in Eastern Europe in 40 years.
Melchites. 451-. Middle Eastern Roman Catholic sect with rites in Arabic, affirming Christ’s dual human/divine nature.
Mexican War. 1846-8. US acquires western territory (5 states). Guadalupe-Hidalgo. 1861-4. Napoleon III conquers Mexico, installs Emperor Maximilian.
Mexico.c1200-100BC Olmec. c300-900 Maya, Zapotec. c900-1200 Toltec. 14C Aztec. 1519-21 Cortes conquers = New Spain. 1821 Independent. 1822 Empire. 1824 Republic/Dictatorship. 1836 -Texas. 1848 -western US. 1863 French occupy. 1867 Independent republic. 1876-1911 Díaz dictator.
Monroe Doctrine. 1823. No interference by Europe in Western Hemisphere. No US interference in Europe.
Moscow Olympics. 1980. Boycotted by Western nations opposed to Afghanistan invasion.
NATO. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 1949- Collective defence alliance of Western European and North Atlantic countries to preserve democratic freedom. UK, Canada, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Portugal, US. 1952 Greece, Turkey, 1955 FRG. 1964 -Greece. 1966 -France. 1980 +Greece. 1982 +Spain. 1993 +France. 1999 +Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic. 2004 +Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia.
Near Eastern Crisis. 1839-41. Eastern Crisis.
Neustria. Western of 4 Merovingian kingdoms. Austrasia.
Neuve-Chapelle, Battle. 1915. Failed WWI artillery attack by British on Western Front.
Nobel Prize. Nobel legacy funded. Peace Prize and prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature. 1969 +Economics. . Declined: Le Duc Tho, Pasternak, Sartre.
OAS. Organization of American States. 1948. Western Hemisphere organization for peace, security, and economic cooperation. Cuba expelled 1962.
OEEC. Organization for European Economic Cooperation. 1948-61. Western European trade organization. OECD.