Industry, Mass Politics And Culture Flashcards
Replace coal and steam in the early 1900s
Electricity oil and gasoline
Increased steel Production while reducing costs in 1900
The Bessemer process
New form of communication in 1876
The telephone
Britain’s new industrial rivals in the 1870s
Germany and the United States
Reasons for population growth in the early 1900s
Falling death rates and improve agricultural and industrial production
Demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men in the late 18th century
Olympia de Gouges
Argued that inequalities were a relic from the past and “a hinders cue to human development” in the mid 19th century
John Stuart mill
Criticized conventional marriage roles, wrote doll house in 1879
Henrick Ibsen
Name for an ideal middle class woman
The angel in the house
Most important role of “the angel in the house”
To be the families moral guardian
What countries in Europe allowed women to vote in 1900
None
The new woman of the 1900s
Supported herself and enjoyed sports
Universal male suffrage led to the creation of many
Political parties
The Paris commune 1871
People of Paris reject new conservative government and a group of radicals know as commune revolt
Effects of Paris commune
Government crushes commune, leads to class hatred
The Dreyfus affair
Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly accused of selling military secrets to Germans and is imprisoned on devils island
Consequences of Dreyfus affair
Revealed wide spread anti semitism. Deepened political divisions
Following the act of union in 1801 Ireland was united with
Great Britain
In the early1800s Ireland was governed by
British Parliament
Irish home rule Bill in 1914
Granted I went own parliament
Franchise act of 1884
Extended voting rights to rural male labors
First European country to develop a social welfare plan
Germany under otto von Bismarck
Attempted to expand Bismarck’s social reforms in 1890
William the second
Last European states to eliminate legal discrimination against Jews
Russia
Causes for Russian political movement in the early 20th century
Russia’s rapid industrialization
Social Democrats split into which two groups
The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks
Mensheviks
Favored gradual socialistic reform
Bolsheviks
Led by Vladimir Lenin, advocated a communist revolution spearheaded by small elite of professional revolutionaries
Causes of the Revolution of 1905
Russia’s loss in the Russo Japanese war, Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday massacre
Cossacks open fire on a peaceful crowd of workers outside the winter palace in St. Petersburg
Louis pasture
Conducted experiments supported germ theory of disease, Discovers heart can destroy many harmful bacteria
Robert Koch
Identifies bacteria responsible for specific diseases
Joseph Lister
Promotes idea of sterile surgery
Impact of the bacterial revolution
Dramatic decline in European death rate
Charles Darwin was informed by who about a constant struggle for existence
Thomas Malthus
Herbert Spencer
Applied Darwin’s theories to human society
Herbert Spencer’s social Darwinism
Other companies thrive when inefficient ones go bankrupt
Impressionism
Captured a moment of time, depicted leisure activities of the bourgeoisie
Cubism
Presented multiple views of the same objects
Key cubism artist
Picasso
