Ch. 22-25 Flashcards

1
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Taught his contemporaries how authoritarian governments could use liberal and nationalistic forces to bolster their own power

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Napoleon III

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Was a military conflict fought between October 1853 - March 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance of France, the United Kingdom, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia. The immediate cause involved the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was controlled by the Ottoman Empire.

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Crimean War

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Political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century.

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Unification of Italy

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political and administrative movement that formed into one nation state officially occurred on January 18, 1871 in the Hall of Mirrors at Palace of Versailles in France

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Unification of Germany

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5
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King William of Prussia appointed this man as the new prime minister.

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Otto von Bismark

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6
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consisted of two monarchies and one autonomous region

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Austro-Hungarian Empire

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7
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many peasants were under a condition of bondage

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Serfdom

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8
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Issued an emancipation edict, allowing peasants to own property, marry as they chose, and bring suits in the law courts.

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Alexander II

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A radical journalist who joined with Friedrich Engels to write The Communist Manifesto, which proclaimed the ideas of a revolutionary socialism.

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Karl Marx

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10
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Focused on the outer, material world. Described a new style of painting and soon spread to literature.

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Realism

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11
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Revolutionized the automobile industry with the mass production of the affordable Model T.

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Henry Ford

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12
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political ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a capitalist economy, and a policy regime involving welfare state provisions, collective bargaining arrangements, regulation of the economy in the general interest, measures for income redistribution, and a commitment to representative democracy.

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Social Democrats

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13
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This was one of the most important consequences of industrialization and the population explosion of the nineteenth century

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Urbanization

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14
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A product of the mass society of the late nineteenth century. Being educated in the early nineteenth century meant attending a secondary school or possibly even a university

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Mass Education

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15
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Evening hours after work, weekends, and later a week or two in the summer provided a time for everyone to relax

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Mass Leisure

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16
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First woman to receive Nobel Prizes. She died from leukemia, a result of her laboratory work with radioactivity.

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Marie & Pierre Curie

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17
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Presented his special theory of relativity (space and time are not absolute but relative to the observer, and both are interwoven into what he called a four-dimensional space-time continuum

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Albert Einstein

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18
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Said that Western bourgeois society was decadent and incapable of any real cultural creativity, primarily because of its excessive emphasis on the rational faculty at the expense of emotions, passions, and instincts.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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19
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Founded psychoanalysis, saying human behavior was strongly determined by the unconscious, earlier experiences, and inner forces of which people were largely unaware. (ID, Ego, and superego)

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Sigmund Freud

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20
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belief that accepted the material world as real and felt that literature should be realistic.

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naturalism

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21
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belief that objective knowledge of the world was impossible. The external world was not real but only a collection of symbols that reflected the true reality of the individual human mind.

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Symbolism

22
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A movement that originated in France in the 1870s when a group of artists rejected the studios and museums and went out into the countryside to paint nature directly.

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Impressionism

23
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Retained the Impressionist emphasis on light and color but revolutionized it even further by paying more attention to structure and form.

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Postimpressionism

24
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Post-Impressionist, for him art was a spiritual experience. Painted The Starry Night.

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Vincent van Gogh

25
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From Spain moved to Paris, Post-Impressionist, extremely versatile and painted in a remarkable variety of styles. Developed new style, Cubism.

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Pablo Picasso

26
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Began abstract painting, sought to avoid representation altogether.

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Vasily Kandinsky

27
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the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.

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Feminism

28
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founded the Women’s Social and Political Union, which enrolled mostly middle- and upper-class women.

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Emmeline Pankhurst

29
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Bad treatment of Jews

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Anti-semitism

30
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Hundreds of thousands of Jews decided to emigrate, many went to the US, but some moved to Palestine, the biblical homeland of the Jews, which soon became the focus of this Jewish national movement

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Zionism

31
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A key leader in the Zionism movement, in 1896 he published a book called The Jewish State in which he maintained that “the Jews who wish it will have their sate.”

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Theodor Herzl

32
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The revival of imperialism after 1880 in which European nations established colonies throughout much of Asia and Africa.

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Impreialism

33
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A poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling.

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“The White Man’s Burden”

34
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a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa, who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia, which the company named after him.

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Cecil Rhodes

35
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As armies grew, so did the influence of military leaders, who drew up vast and complex plans for quickly mobilizing millions of men and enormous quantities of supplies in the event of war.

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Militarism

36
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A Serbian terrorist organization dedicated to the creation of a pan-Slavic kingdom.

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Black Hand

37
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Germany could not mobilize its troops against Russia and therefore declared war on France on August 3 after issuing an ultimatum to Belgium on August 2 demanding the right of German troops to pass through Belgian territory.

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Schlieffen Plan

38
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Southwest of Constantinople

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Gallioli

39
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a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers’ extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.

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All Quiet on the Western Front

40
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suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by government

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Censorship

41
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War-promoting advertisements

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Propoganda

42
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Autocratic ruler of Russia who relied on the army and bureaucracy to prop up his regime.

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Nicholas II & Alexandra

43
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Women marched the city of Petrograd in Russia, chanting and it shut down all the factories, Nicholas II order soldiers to disperse the crowds, but the troops joined the demonstrators.

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February (March) Revolution

44
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A small faction of the Marxist Social Democrats who had come under the leadership of Vladimir Ulianov Lenin.

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Bolsheviks

45
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Was arrested for revolutionary activity, and after his release he chose to go into exile in Switzerland and eventually assumed the leadership of the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic party

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Vladimir Lenin

46
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Chairman of the Petrograd soviet

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Leon Trotsky

47
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Slogan for the Bolsheviks

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“Peace, Land, and Bread”

48
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Took control of Russia

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Communist Party

49
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War fought in US between North and South (confederate army vs union army)

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Civil War

50
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the first international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

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League of nations

51
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she was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat, causing the deaths of 1,198 passengers and crew

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Lusitania