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Chapters 23 &24 Flashcards

1
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Who created the light bulb

A

Thomas Edison

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2
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created the model t car and the assembly line

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Henry Ford

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3
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businesses that worked together to control prices and production levels

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cartels

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4
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Why did Germany become so successful in the second industrial revolution

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because they had the ability to use the new technology to create goods unlike Britain where the cost was too great

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5
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piece working where the worker was paid by piece and could work from home

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sweating

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6
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a world wide day of strike where people would strike around the world

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Second International

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7
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idea that government is unnecessary and that no government is better than any government

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anarchism

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8
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this man’s goal was better housing conditions for the world

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V.A. Huber

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9
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founded the boy scouts

A

Robert Balden-Powell

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10
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What was the purpose of the boy scouts

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to toughen up the boys

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11
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Why did the liberals support public education

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it was important to personal and social improvement

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12
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used sensationalism and tried to make stories more important than they really are (similar to the tabloids today)

A

yellow press

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13
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How did Britain increase their number of voters

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anyone who paid taxes were allowed to vote

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14
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This man was the representative of the Irish in the British Parliament

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Charles Parnell

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15
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What was the Irish Question

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Whether or not Ireland should be treated like a colony or not

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16
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radical republican government that fought against the French government

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Commune

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17
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Why wasn’t Italy really united

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because they had powerful families that would fight each other in factions

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18
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How did Bismarck steal the thunder of the liberals

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because he would change his mind and apply their changes before they could do anything about it

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19
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How did Bismarck loose his job

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the King William II didn’t want Bismarck telling him what to do

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20
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How did the Hungarians try and solve the nationality problem

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force everyone to be like them

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21
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discovered radium which gave off radiation and discovered the atom

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Marie Curie

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22
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blamed Christianity for the world’s problems

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Fredrich Nietzsche

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23
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Field that Sigmund Freud developed

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psychology

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24
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application of Darwin’s theory’s to social interaction

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Social Darwinism

25
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What factors worked against organized religions

A

the church rejected the ideas developed by scientists

26
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rejection of displaying things as accurately as possible

A

Modernism

27
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women that wrote about alcoholism

A

Emile Zola

28
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`Major form of literature by the symbolists

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poetry

29
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artist’s impression of the changing lite in nature

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impressionism

30
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impressionist painter

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Claude Monet

31
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painter in Spain who cut off his ear

A

Pablo Picasso

32
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what was the first goal of the women’s right’s movement

A

protections for women in the case of divorce and becoming a widow

33
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women’s rights leader that wanted public demonstrations to create attention to the cause

A

Emmeline Pankhurst

34
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hatred of the Jews

A

anti-Semitism

35
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belief that the Jews should return to Palestine

A

Zionism

36
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newspaper writer who organized an effort to move the Jews to Palestine

A

Theodor Herzl

37
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man framed for selling secrets to Germany

A

Alfred Dreyfus

38
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created the Russian Industrialization Movement

A

Sergi White

39
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protest at the Russian winter palace

A

Bloody Sunday

40
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Russian tsars way of appealing to what the people wanted

A

October Manifesto

41
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What was the major problem in Canada

A

Language

42
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idea that the white man must care for the people of inferior races

A

White Man’s Burden

43
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poet who wrote about the white man’s burden

A

Rudyard Kipling

44
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Dutch people of South Africa

A

Boers

45
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a Scottish missionary in Africa

A

David Livingstone

46
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What was David Stanley before he looked for David Livingstone

A

newspaper writer

47
Q

African nations not concurred by Europe

A

Liberia and Ethiopia

48
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Why was Russia’s war with Japan embarrassing

A

they lost

49
Q

other countries influencing China and how they run their government

A

Sphere’s of Influence

50
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policy that stated the United States would trade with anyone in Asia

A

Open Door Policy

51
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US admiral that forced Japan to trade with us

A

Commodore Matthew Perry

52
Q

Things that the USA won in the Spanish American War

A

Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

53
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Chinese rebellion against the United States

A

Boxer Rebellion

54
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Chinese revolutionary that overthrew the Chinese government

A

Sun Yat-sen

55
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equivalent to the knights of Japan

A

samurai

56
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Indian tradition that the husband’s die when the wives do

A

sati

57
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What did France want back after the Franco-Prussian War

A

the Alsace-Lorraine

58
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how did William II screw up what Bismarck worked so hard for

A

he decided to end his alliance with Russia

59
Q

alliance that was a part of Britain, France, Italy and Russia

A

Triple Entente

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