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Guglielmo marconi
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sent the first radio waves across the atlantic
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internal-combustion engine
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provided a new source of power in transportation
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revisionists
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marxists who rejected the revolutionary approach
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working class
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made up nearly 80 percent of the european population in the early 1900s
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emmeline pankhurst
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founded the women's social and political union
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ministerial responsibility
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idea that the prime minister is responsible to the legislative body and not to the executive officer
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triple alliance
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germany, austria-hungary, and italy
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marie curie
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discovered the first radioactive element, radium
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sigmund freud
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published major new theories of human behavior in the interpretation of dreams
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claude monet
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impressionist painter who sought to capture the interplay of light, water, and sky
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in the second industrial revolution, what led the way to new industrial frontiers?
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steel, chemicals, electricity, and petroleum
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according to karl marx, _______, or working class, was oppressed by the middle class.
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proletariat
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by 1914, trade unions had
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bettered both the living and working conditions of the working class
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although they made up only 5 percent of the population in the early 1900, which class controlled 30 to 40 percent of the wealth?
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the new elite
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________ founded the female association for the care of the poor and the sick in hamburg, germany
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amalie sieveking
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what was the name of the legislative assembly created by czar nicholas 2nd
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duma
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the alliance between great britain, russia, and france was known as the
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triple entente
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according to albert einstein's special theory of relativity
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if all material things disappear out of the universe, time and space would disappear with them.
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symbolists believed that the world was collection of symbols that
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reflected the true reality, which was the individual human mind.
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functionalism was the idea that
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building, like the products of machines, should be useful and lack unnecessary ornamentation
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what was the new view in architecture called
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functionalism
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which painting movement uses squares, triangles, and circles to re-create
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cubism
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the communist manifesto
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written by karl marx and friedrich engels
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proletariat
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the working class
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trade unions
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bettered both the living and working conditions of the working classes
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new elite
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made up 5 percent of population, but controlled 30 to 40 percent of the wealth
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amalie sieveking
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german nursing pioneer
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duma
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russian legislative assembly created by nicholas 2nd
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albert einstein
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great britain, france, and russia
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albert einstein
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developed the special theory of relativity
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social darwinism
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applied to human society in a radical way by nationalists and racists
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pablo picasso
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created the style of painting called cubism
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_________ sent the first radio waver across the atlantic in 1901
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guglielmo marconi
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the internal-combustion engine gave rise to
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automobiles, airplanes, and improved ocean liners
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________ were marxists who rejected the revolutionary approach favor of a more political approach
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revisionists
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in the early 1900s, how much of the european population belonged to the working class?
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80 percent
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emmeline pankhurst and her daughters founded the
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women's social and political union
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the principle of ministerial responsibility is the idea that
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the prime minister is responsible to the popularly elected legislative body and not the executive officer
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the alliance of germany, austria- hungary, and italy was known as the
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triple alliance
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according to sigmund freud, human behavior was
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strongly determined by repressed experiences
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________ was a postimpressionist painter for whom art was a spiritual
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vincent von gogh
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what old view in physics was replaced with einstein's relative universe?
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newton's mechanical universe
