Ch. 25: Key terms

Question 0

a divisive case in which Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army was falsely accused and convicted of treason. The Catholic Church sided with the anti-semites against Dreyfus; because of this, the French government severed all ties between the state and church.

Answer 0

Dreyfus Affair

Question 1

massacre of peaceful protesters at Winters Square in St. Petersberg in 1905 that turned ordinary workers against the tsar and produced a wave of general indignation.

Answer 1

Bloody Sunday

Question 2

Russian parliament opened in 1906, elected indirectly by universal male suffrage but with absolute veto power from the tsar.

Answer 2

Duma

Question 3

result of the American Civil War that gave western land to settlers, reinforcing the concept of free labor in a market economy.

Answer 3

Homestead act

Question 4

struggle for civilization, Bismarks attack on the Catholic church resulting from Pius IXs declaration of papal infallibility in 1870.

Answer 4

Kulturkampf

Question 5

the changes that enable a country to compete effectively with the leading countries at a given time.

Answer 5

Modernization

Question 6

the result of a great general strike in October 1905, it granted full civil rights and promised a popularly elected duma (parliament) with real legislative power.

Answer 6

October Manifesto

Question 7

proposed after the liberal party came to power in England in 1906 and vetoed by the lords, it was designed to increase spending on social welfare issues.

Answer 7

Peoples Budget

Question 8

guerrilla army of Guiseppe Girabaldi who invaded Sicily in 1860 in an attempt to liberate it and won the hearts of the Sicilian peasantry.

Answer 8

Red Shirts

Question 9

the popularly elected lower house of government of the new German Empire after 1871.

Answer 9

Reichstag

Question 10

an effort by various socialists to update Marxian doctrines to reflect the realities of the time.

Answer 10

Revisionism

Question 11

result of discontent from Russian factory workers and peasants as well as an emerging nationalist sentiment among the empires minorities.

Answer 11

Revolution of 1905

Question 12

a new institution of local government in reformed Russia, whose members were elected by a three-class system of towns, peasant villages, and noble landowners.

Answer 12

Zemstvo

Question 13

movement toward Jewish political nationhood, started by Theodor Herzl.

Answer 13

Zionism

Question 14

German customs union founded in 1834 to stimulate trade and increase the revenues of member states.

Answer 14

Zollverein