Clemenceau, Georges. 1841-1929. French Radical Prime Minister 1917-20. Dreyfus defender. War leader.

Cleomenes I. Spartan King. c521-491BC. Maintained Spartan dominance.

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste. 1619-83. Louis XIV’s Finance Minister.

Collins, Michael. 1890-1922. Led Easter Rebellion. First Prime Minister of Irish Free State 1922. Assassinated by extremists.

COMINFORM. Communist Information Bureau. 1947-56. Coordinated European party activities.

COMINTERN. Third International 1919-43.

Commonwealth, British. 1926-. Free association of autonomous countries. Evolved from the British Empire. Statute of Westminster 1931.

Commune. 1789-94. Paris council. Overode the National Assembly by controlling administration.

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.

Conceptualism. Reality has no objective existence; it is a concept in the mind. Abelard.

Confederation. 1867. United Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Upper and Lower Canada as Dominion of Canada.

Conscience, Hendrik. 1812-83. Romantic novelist; developed Flemish novel.

Constant de Rebecque, Benjamin. 1767-1830. Swiss/French author. Adolphe.

Corinthian Wars. 395-387BC. Athens and allies overcome Spartan domination.

Cotton Famine. 1861-5. English depression due to supply cut-off during American Civil War.

Craig, James. 1871-1940. First Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, 1921-.

Crete. c6100BC Knossos civilization. 3500BC Minoan. 1100BC Greek 67BC Rome. 826 Saracen. 960 Byzantine. 1205 Venice. 1669 Ottoman. 1912 Greece. 1941-45 Germany occupies.

Crispi, Francesco. 1819-1901. Italian Prime Minister 1887~96. Thousand.

Cubism. 1907. Braque and Picasso reduce painting to minimum geometric forms. Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907. Term coined by Braque 1909.

Cummings, e.e. 1894-1962. Eccentric US poet. Tulips and Chimneys 1923.

CWA. Civil Works Admin. US New Deal project employed 4M.

Cycladic Civilization. Paralleled Minoan and Mycenaean.

Daedalus. Builder of the Crete labyrinth. Escaped Minos with artificial wings. Icarus.

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

Darius I. 550-486BC. Persian King 522-. Defeated by the Greeks at Marathon after expanding empire. Great builder and administrator.

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