Chapter 24: 1894-1914 Flashcards

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Albert Einstein

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E= MC^2

Theory of Relativity: space and time are not absolute but are relative to the observer

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Max Planck

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Said that a heated body radiates energy irregularly in bursts called “quanta”
Quantum theory

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Glorified the Irrational
Didn’t believe in god
Hated Christianity
Wanted people to think outside the box

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Henri Bergson

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Believed in the irrational
Thought reason was useful but couldn’t arrive at reality
Thought reality was a whole that could not be broken down and analyze but merely be experienced directly

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Sigmund Freud

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The unconscious mind controlled a persons actions and behaviors
Psychoanalysis

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The Ego, the ID, and the Superego

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ID : the pleasures, lusts, desires & impulses

Ego: reason, reality, the rejection of pleasure for peace

SuperEgo: morals and inhibitions imposed by society and parents

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Social Darwinism

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Society is an evolving organism that is working based on survival of the fittest

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Herbert Spencer

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Preached social darwinism and said that though it may seem harsh that some people are put behind or die because of struggles it is beneficial to society in weeding out the weak

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Houston Stewart Chamberlain

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Preached Volkish thought that only certain people were pure Aryans and that they must be prepared to fight “lower races” such as jews, negroes and orientals

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Ernst Renan

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Questioned the historical accuracy of the bible and presented a very different view of jesus where he is not the son of god

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Emile Zola

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A french naturalist writer who wrote about life in the slums and coalfields was inspired by Darwin

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Leo Tolstoy

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Realistic Russian writer

Wrote War and Peace which was a very descriptive novel about napoleons invasion of Russia

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Impressionism

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Paint directly what you see and feel

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Camille Pissarro

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Founder of impressionism

sought to put into painting the effects of light on objects

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Claude Monet

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Painter particularly enchanted with water

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Post-Impressionism

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Same as impressionism but with an added emphasis on structure and form
Personal statement of reality

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Paul Cezanne

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Sought to express the underlying geometric form and structure of what he painted

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Vincent Van Gogh

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Spiritual experience in art
Loved color
Starry night

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Pablo Picasso

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Painted in a wide variety

Started cubism

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Cubism

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Used geometric designs as visual stimuli to recreate reality in the viewers mind

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Wassily Kandinsky

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Founded abstract painting
Avoid representation altogether
Thought art should speak to the soul
Concentrate on color

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Abstract Expressionism

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Color

Art should speak to the soul

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Igor Stravinsky

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Ballet composer
Based on russian folktales
Irrational forces in his music

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Maria Montessori

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Was an example of the "new woman"
Broke female traditions
Went to medical school and got a degree
Taught the mentally retarded
Founded a new way of teaching at the students own pace
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Alfred Dreyfus
A french Jew captain in the French General Staff | Convicted of selling army secrets and imprisioned on Devils Island
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Theodore Herzl
Wrote the book The Jewish State
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Zionism
Jewish Nationalist Movement
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Pan-Slavism/Slavophilism
Union of all the slavic people
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Racial Nationalism
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Fabian Socialism
Movement for laborers | Stressed the need to use the labor classes vote to get benefits for the working class
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David Lloyd George
Created a small welfare system
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Pan-German League
United germans
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Russo-Japanese War
Japanese mad about Russias expansion | Japan won
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"Bloody Sunday"
Troops massacred peaceful worker petition
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Peter Stolypin
Tsar's chief advisor | Dissolved village ownership of land and opened the door to private owernship
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"White Mans Burden"
The necessary duty of the white men to civilize and help "ignorant brutes" in other countries
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Cecil Rhodes
Was prime minister of the Cape Colony in Africa Wanted to make colonies from Cape Town to Cairo linked by a railroad Was forced to resign when he started plotting to overthrow the Boers
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Boer War
Extremists from Britain and Boer territories fought | British won but helped the Boers create their own independent government
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Suez Canal
The British lifeline to India | Made travel and trade much much faster
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"Open Door" Policy
One country would not restrict the commerce of the other countries in its sphere of influence in China
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Claude Debussy
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Emeline Pankhurst
Womens rights activist | Used violence
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Indian National Congress
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Bismarkian System
System of alliances to maintain peace
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Congress of Berlin
Decided Russia wouldn't get a certain territory
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Triple Alliance
Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy
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Emperor William (Wilhelm) III
Emperor of Germany | Dismissed Bismarck
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Triple Entente
Britain, France and Russia
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Marie Curie
Scientist who discovered radiation
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Balkan Crises
Fight over Balkan territories | Serbs were mad