Flashcards in 18. Industry, Mass Politics, and Culture, 1871-1914 Deck (32)
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two new industries in the 2nd Industrial Revolution
- steel production
- chemical industry
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what industrial process is related to mass production of steel
Bessemer process
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who lead the chemical industry
Germany
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the new source of power in 2nd industrial revolution?
electricity, oil, and gasoline
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What were the new industrial powers rivaling Britain?
Germany and US
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Who was a major feminist in France even earlier than Mary Wollstonecraft of England?
Olympia de Gouges
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What did the feminist Olympia de Gouges write?
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
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argued that inequalities imposed on women were a relic from the past and "a hindrance to human development"
John Stuart Mill
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what is the "angel in the house"
ideal middle-class woman
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by the end of 19th C, educated middle-class women enjoyed more independent lifestyles, and they are called:
the "New Woman"
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How successful was women's suffrage movement in 1900
No country in Europe allowed women to vote
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What government was established after Napoleon III's defeat to Prussia?
Third Republic
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What was the revolutionary municipal council formed by the radicals in France called?
How did the third republic deal with them?
the Paris Commune
- mercilessly crushed the Communards
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what is anti-Semitism
hostility to Jews
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What was the key cause of the Dreyfus Affair?
anti-Semitism
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Which realist novelist wrote "J'Accuse" exposing the injustice of Dreyfus Affair?
Emile Zola
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What did the Dreyfus Affair reveal about Europe?
just how widespread the anti-Semitism existed in Europe
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What did Theodor Herzl write as a consequence of the Dreyfus Affair?
what is is about?
- "The Jewish State"
- calling for a national homeland for the Jews
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What is the age of mass politics?
when the masses were involved in politics.
basically when universal male suffrage of the WORKING class came to be.
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What is the Irish question?
were the irish successful?
whether to grant Ireland its own parliament
they were successful to a little extent
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Who became next kaiser after William I died?
what did he do with Bismarck?
- William II
- forced Bismarck to resign
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in 1880s, what did Bismarck do in Germany that became the first ever?
developed a state social welfare program
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What were Bismarck's goals in instituting the welfare programs?
to prove that the state was a benevolent institution and not an oppressor
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In Russia, how were the Social Democrats split into?
Mensheviks(favoring gradual reform) vs. Bolsheviks (advocating communist revolution)
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Who led the Bolsheviks?
Vladimir Lenin
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What happened due to Russian losses in the Russo-Japanese War?
Revolution of 1905 b/c the war exposed the weaknesses of the autocratic regime
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How were the revolts of 1905 in Russia suppressed?
Still, what was Nicholas II reluctantly pressured to do?
- "Bloody Sunday" massacre
- due to strikes and pressure, he reluctantly approved a Russian parliament called DUMA
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important ppl of the bacterial revolution:
Louis Pasteur,
Joseph Lister (sterile surgery)
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Darwin's book on the theory of evolution
"The Origin of Species"
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