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World History LTMs U4 Flashcards

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American “inventor” of electric light bulb; “wizard of Menlo Park”

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Thomas Edison

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developed telephone and microphone

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Alexander Graham Bell

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sent first radio waves across the Atlantic; wireless telegraph

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Marconi

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this invention gave rise to ocean liners, airplanes, and automobiles

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internal-combustion engine

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first to fly powered, sustained, controlled flight

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Wright brothers

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three important elements in mass production

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  1. assembly line
  2. division of labor
  3. interchangeable parts
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“Communist Manifesto”; socialism; “history of class struggle”; communism

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Karl Marx

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group of workers who seek improvement of wages, conditions, and benefits

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union

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leading Am. suffragist; Declaration of Rights and Sentiment

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Austro-Hungarian emperor who basically ignored Parliament

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Francis Joseph

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Russian czar who believed in autocracy; granted some liberties but basically ignored people’s wishes; Duma

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Nicholas II

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French chemists who discovered radium, radioactivity, atoms gave off light

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Marie Curie & Pierre Curie

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Marxist name for the working class

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proletariat

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members of the Triple Alliance

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Austria-Hungary, Italy, Germany

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members of the Triple Entente

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Great Britain, France, Russia

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German scientist; special theory of relativity = space and time are not absolute; E=MC^2

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Albert Einstein

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German scientist; special theory of relativity = space and time are not absolute; E=MC^2

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Albert Einstein

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psychoanalysis; human behavior determined by past experience and internal forces

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Sigmund Freud

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“survival of the fittest”; British philosopher; social Darwinism

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Herbert Spencer

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Jewish nationalist movement; Herzl; goal of Jewish homeland in Palestine

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Zionism

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3 men who strongly influenced the automobile industry

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  1. Henry Ford
  2. Benz
  3. Daimier
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germ theory of disease; microbiology; rabies vaccine; pasteurization

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Louis Pasteur

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art movement that presented an impression of a scene at a given moment in time

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Impressionism

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Industrial Revolution began here because of resources, workers, capital, and markets

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Great Britain

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one invention that increased efficiency and spread of industry production
Cotton Gin
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one invention that increased efficiency and spread of industry in transportation
steam engine
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population poses the greatest challenge to human progress; ppl multiply more rapidly than food supply despite natural checks
malthus
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necessary factors of production during Industrial Revolution
land, labor, capital
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3 cons to Industrial Revolution
1. child labor 2. decreased life expectancy 3. harsh working conditions
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3 pros to Industrial Revolution
1. mechanical advancements 2. transportation advancements 3. city growth
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3 pros to Industrial Revolution
1. mechanical advancements 2. transportation advancements 3. city growth
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movement that stressed individualism, emotion, and imagination
Romanticism
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"Origins of the Species"; evolution from simpler forms; natural selection; controversial
Charles Darwin
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movement that stressed every day, ordinary life; precise descriptions; social issues
realism
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Russians seek warm water ports in the Black Sea; war against Ottomans, GB, and France
Crimean War
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2 Italian leaders - one from North, one from South - who unite almost all of Italy
1. Victor Emmanuel II 2. Giuseppe Garibald
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militaristic Prussian prime minister; fought many wars and helped German unification
Otto von Bismark
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2 provinces given to Germany at end of Franco-Prussian war; leads to lasting resentment
1. Alsace 2. Lorraine
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reign from 1837-1901 longest in English history; sense of duty and moral respectability; age named after her
Victoria
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founded 1st nursing school; served as a nurse during Crimean War; improved sanitary cond.
Florence Nightingale
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2 reasons for American Civil War
1. slavery 2. states rights
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important class that developed as a result of the IR; bought products; kids educated
middle class
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domination by a powerful nation over the political, economic, and cultural affairs of another nation or region
imperialism
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responsibility to civilize and Christianize primitive peoples
white man's burden
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region in which, although a native ruler kept his title, a foreign power actually ruled
proctorate
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Egypt; linked the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea; British take control of Egypt
Suez Canal
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British explorer and missionary who traveled though Central Africa; wanted find navigatable river
David Livingstone
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Indian soldiers rise against British; caused by culture clash = gun cartridges; though crushed it was 1st attempt to oust British from SE Asia
Sepoy Mutiny
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Indian revolutionary leader; lawyer; nonviolent resistance; civil disobedience
Mohandas Gandhi
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Indian writer, educator, and philosopher; promoted pride in national Indian consciousness
Rabindranath Tagore
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two South American men who led revolutions for LA independence with great success
Simon Bolivar Jose de San Martin
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U.S. president advises Europeans to stay out of the Western Hemisphere; 1823
Monroe Doctrine

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