Chapter 20 Flashcards
(26 cards)
What commodities were part of the second industrial revolution?
Steel, Chemicals,electricity and petroleum
Electricity could be converted into what others form of energy?
Heat,light, and motion
Why would Europeans afford to buy more consumer products?
Wages increased and prices lowered
What did industrial workers do to improve working and living conditions
Form socialist political parties and form trade unions.
According to Karl Marx what two groups or society would grow more and more hostile toward one another?
Bourgeoisie and Protetariat
What is ruled by one
What is ruled by people
Autocracy
Democracy
Who invited the light bulb
THOMAS EDISON
Who invited the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who invited the first radio waves?
Guglielmo Marconi
What is the middle class including merchants industrialist and professional people
Bourgeoisie
What is a form of government in which a person or small group has absolute power?
Dictatorship
What is the movement for women’s rights
Feminism
What is the ability to read
Literacy
What is organized persecution or massacre of minority group
, especially Jews
Pogrom
By the end of the nineteenth century where did more more people live
Cities
Which class consisted of doctors lawyers and business managers
Middle Class
When did state finance schools were set up what age of boys and girls were required to attend
6-12
Leisure came to be viewed as what people do for fun _____________ after work
Work
In Great Britain what to parties alternator and power
Liberals and Conservatives
In Germany who were ministers of government
The emperor
What did Nicholas II of Russia believe
Absolute power of Zcar
What were the consequences of Bloody Sunday
Workers went on strike. Zcar granted Vivian liberties that were short lived
What was the worlds richest nation
USA
What set the stage for WW1
A series of crises in the —— Balkans
