Chapters 21-22 Flashcards
What is revolutionary nationalism?
A desire to break loose from their established governments and rule themselves based on what they saw as “natural boundaries” of national origin
What is an anarchy?
Political disorder and violence; lack of any government idealism
What is relativism?
Idea that truth is relative and dependent on man’s reasoning
What is dialectic thinking?
Idea that one fact or idea (thesis) works against a contradictory fact (antithesis) to create a “new fact” (synthesis)
Who is the “Father of Theological Liberalism”?
Friedrich Schleiermacher
What did “higher criticism” question?
It questioned in the guise of scholarship the inspiration, authority, texts, and meanings of the Bible
Who are modernists?
Religious Liberals
How long did the Congress of Vienna last?
Eight months
Who were the key diplomats in Europe and where are they from?
Czar Alexander I (Russia)
Lord Castlereigh (England)
Comte de Tallyrand (France)
Prince von Metternich (Austria)
Who is the “Prince of Diplomats”?
Prince von Metternich
Who was in the Quadruple Alliance?
Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britian
Who are the Creoles?
Spaniards born in the colonies
What did the Holy Alliance follow?
Follow policy based on “holy religion, namely the precepts of justice, Christian charity, and peace
Who is “the Liberator”?
Simon Bolivar
Who are the Mestizos?
Latin Americans of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry
In what year was the Monroe Doctrine established?
1815
Who helped Chile gain independence in 1818?
Jose de San Martin and Bernardo O’Higgins
What is the Treaty of Adrianople?
Turks agreed to the term offered by England, France, and Russia
Who colonized the Congo in Africa?
Leopold II
Who organized Young Italy?
Giuseppe Mazzini
WHen was Young Italy established?
1852
What is Young Italy?
Secret society aimed at insurrection in Italy and ultimately unification through violence
Who worked toward unification through diplomatic means?
Count Cavour
Who organized a parliamentary group of revolutionaries known as the Red Shirts?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Who was the first king of a united Italy?
Victor Emmanuel II
Who was the chancellor of Prussia?
Otto von Bismarck
What was the next step in Bismarck’s plan for German unification?
Franco-Prussian War
Who was declared emperor of united Germany?
King Wilhelm
Who were the members of the lower chamber known as?
Reichstag
What happened in the “Era of Bismarck”?
Germany became a strong industrial and military power
Who dismissed Bismarck and took foreign affairs into his own hands?
Wilhelm II
Who organized the Navy League and set out to build up German sea power?
Admiral von Tirpitz
What is the Dual Monarchy?
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Who was King of Hungary and Emperor of Austria?
Francis Joseph I
WHo was in the Dual Alliance?
France and Russia
What is the Entente Cordiale?
Reconciled the differences between France and Russia
What did the Paris Commune establish?
Establish a more “democratic” system of government in the style of the first French Revolution
What is the Triple Entente?
Sealed alliance among Britain, France, and Russia
Who advocated democratic socialism?
Louis Blanc
What is Pantheism?
A false idea that God is not separate from nature but nature is God
What is democratic socialism?
Proletarians (workers) would publicly own and control productive industry
What is “Utopian Socialism”?
Founding of Utopian communities in which socialist ideas could be tried
Who expanded the field of physics with the quantum theory of matter and energy?
Max Planck
Who is “the Father of Nuclear Science”?
Ernest Rutherford
Who produced the planetary model of the atom?
Niels Bohr
Who revolutionized the scientific world with his theories of relativity?
Albert Einstein
Who is the best-remembered agricultural scientist?
George Washington Carver
Who found the source of yellow fever?
Dr. Carlos Finlay
Who took steps in eliminating yellow fever?
Walter Reed and William Gorgas