Chapter 24 Flashcards

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Fabian Society

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British Socialists founded in 1884 named after Roman general noted for winning by avoiding open pitched battles
criticize capitalist system as efficient

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New Imperialism

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Era of European overseas expansion lost in 1880s European subjected 500 million people in Africa and Asia

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Socialism

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Came together when a single united party was formed some favor pursuing objectives gradually and peacefully others dedicated to violent overthrow of capitalistic society

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Second International

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International Socialist organization that meant yearly to debate issues of broad concern - called for workers to strike interfuse military service

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Jules Guesde

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French socialist that represented the Marxist principles

Karl Marx said if he was a Marxist and I am not

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Jean Jaures

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An ideological moderate

French Socialist leader one of France’s greatest orators

assassinated for efforts to prevent war

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Anarchism

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Proclaimed humans could be free only when the state has been abolished

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Syndicalism

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Movement that advocates direct action by working-class to abolish capitalist order including the state and to establish the social order based on workers organized in production units

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Anti-Semitism

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Centuries old prejudice against and demonization of Jews

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Theodore Herzel

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Austrian Jewish journalist

Sounded Zionist movement

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Zionism

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Nationalist Jewish movement beginning in late 19th century advocated establishing a Jewish state in the Jews and ancient homeland of Palestine

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David Lloyd George

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Feisty chancellor of the exchequer proposed raising income taxes and death duties and levying attack on landed wealth

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Emmeline Pakhurst

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British political activist leader of British Suffragette movement (women right to vote)

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Wilhelm II

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German Emperor determined to make Germany a world power whose foreign policy has global impact

liked to be viewed in heroic and military posture

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Weltopolitik

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Means world politics

term describes the policy pursued nationalistic appeals and threats by Wilhelm II to make Germany a world power

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Triple Alliance

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Military alliance established among Germany Austria Hungary and Italy to counter Franco-Russian alliance

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Triple Entente

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Military alliance between Great Britain France and Russia countering the Third Alliance

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Bolesheviks

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Minority group

Faction of the Russian socialist Democratic Party led the Marxist Vladimir Ilich Lenin insisted exclusive revolutionary cadre could seize power on behalf of working-class

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Russo-Japanese war

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Greatest war of the 20th-century
rival imperial ambition of the Russian Empire and Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. Japanese victory which forced Russia to abandon expansionist policy in the Far East becoming first Asian power in modern times to defeat European power

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Franz Ferdinand

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Heir to the Hapsburg throne, assassinated

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Gavrilo Princip

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Man that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

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Dreyfus Affair

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Jewish officer imprisoned on trumped-up charges of treason

led to Zionist movement

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Sigmund Freud

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Austrian founder of psychoanalysis a method of treating psychic disorders by exploring the unconscious

based on belief people are motivated by unconscious feelings and drives

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Avant-garde

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French for forefront
refers to early 20th-century artists who inspired unconventional techniques precursor of new styles
called for the rejection of existing forms of expression

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Nihilism

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Belief traditional values are baseless and nothing could be known or communicated

destructiveness toward world and oneself

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Karl Marx

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German socialist, liberal ideology, violent revolution, revolutionary communist, most influential socialist of the 19th century

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Fredrich Engels

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German social scientist father of Marxist theory alongside Karl Marx

co-authored The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital

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Communism

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Revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless, stateless social order

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Fredrich Neitzsche

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German philosopher who vividly expressed tensions between reason and emotion

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Suffragists

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Activists who in the late 19th century organized to win the vote for women

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Paul Gauguin

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French paneer noted that the purpose of painting is to communicate not how things look but the emotions they convey

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Edward Munch

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Norwegian painter emphasized scenes of violence, fear, and sheer horror