Flashcards on World History Chapter 13
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What new materials and resources were used during the second Industrial Revolution?
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steel replaced iron and electricity was the new form of energy
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Why did Europe dominate the world economy by the beginning of the twentieth century?
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They received beef and wool from argentina And australia, coffe from Brazil. Iron ore from algeria and sugar from java. They also invested in railroads, mines, electrical power plants and banks.
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Summarize Marx's theory as expressed in the Communist Manifesto.
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All world history was a history of class struggles. oppressor and oppressed have stood in constant opposition to one another throughout history
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Why did cities grow so quickly in the nineteenth century?
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Living conditions improved.
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What were the major groups in the social structure of the late nineteenth century?
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The new elite, the middle class and the working class.
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What was the basic goal of the suffragettes?
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the right of women to full citizenship in the nation-state
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Why did states make a commitment to provide public education?
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Industrialization made young kids who had jobs in factories not get an education. The main reason why is political, giving more people the right to vote created a need for better educated voters.
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What was the status of democracy in Great Britain, France, and Italy after the Second Industrial Revolution?
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Great Britain had a working two-party parliamentary system. In france, the collapse of napoleon's second empire left the country in confusion. The powers of the president were not well defined in the constitution. Italy had emerged as a united national state.
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What type of government did Germany have after the second Industrial Revolution?
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Two house legislature
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What type of government did Austria-Hungary have after the second Industrial Revolution?
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A parliamentary system with ministerial responsibility. But the emperor ignored the system.
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What type of government did Russia have after the second Industrial Revolution?
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? A legislative assembly called the Duma.
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What territories did the United States acquire after the American Civil War?
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Puerto rico, Guam and the Philippines
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What countries formed the Triple Alliance?
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Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy
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What countries formed the Triple Entente?
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Great Britain, France and Russia
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Why were the Serbs outraged when Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina?
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It dashed the Serbians' hopes of creating a large Serbian kingdom that would include most of the southern Slavs.
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bourgeoisie
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Middle class
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proletariat:
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Working class
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dictatorship:
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government which a person has absolute power
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revisionist:
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rejected the revolutionary approach and argued that workers must continue to organize is mass political parties and even work for other parties to gain reform
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Thomas Edison
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Invented the light bulb
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Alexander Graham BEll
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invented the telephone
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Guglielmo Marconi:
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sent the first radio waves across the atlantic
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Karl Marx
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wrote, The communist Manifesto
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feminism
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movement for women's rights
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literacy
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ability to read
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ministerial responsibility:
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the idea that the prime minister is responsible to the popularly elected legislative body and not to executive officer-crucial to democracy
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duma
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legislative assembly
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psychoanalysis
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a therapist can probe deeply into the patients memory
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pogrom
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Organized massacres
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modernism
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a style or movement in the arts that aims to break with classical and traditional forms.
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Marie curie
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: discovered radium that gave off radiation
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Albert Einstein
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Provided a new view on the universe. Space and time are not absolute but are relative to the observer.
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social Darwinism:
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darwin's theories were applied to society by nationalist and racists.
