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Test 2 Multiple Choice Flashcards

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1848 French Revolution

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Led to second republic which was uneffective

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Louis Phillips

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Leader of France that gave up throne before second French Republic

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National workshops

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Public works projects to give people jobs-shut down

French Revolution 1848

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Credit mobilizer/suez canal company

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Investment banking

Europe->Asia

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Remaking Paris/Haussmann

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Making paris a beautiful cultural city

Haussmann led this

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Italian unification

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Giuseppe Mazzini vs Victor Emmanuel

Each took control of half of Italy

Negotiated to unify

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

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Major figure in italian unification

Wants democratic italy (republican/liberal)

SOUTH

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Count Camilo di Cavour

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Key figure in u uniting Italy CONSERVATIVELY

With emmanuel

NORTH

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German unification

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Austria and Prussia feuding

Shifty diplomacy to unite Germany

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William I of Prussia

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New king of Prussia

Puppet of Otto von Bismarck’s

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Franco-Prussian war

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France defeated and humiliated

Shifty diplomacy to unite Germany

Led to united Germany!!!!!!

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Benjamin Disraeli

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Prime minister of Britain (works with Queen)

Conservative

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John Stuart Mill

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Philosopher and huge supporter of women’s rights

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“New Imperialism”

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Expand power and influence of the West

Competition among nation states

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“Colonizer” vs. “colonized”

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Colonizer were like the owners of the colonized

Pushed their western ideas on them

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Informal rule

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Stronger states let weaker states maintain independence. Has lots of influence over it.

Indirect-colonizing nation governs w/ assistance of local rulers

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British east India company

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Trade monopoly over India

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Sepoy rebellion

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Indians heard guns were greased with pig fat -> unclean based on religion

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Chinese Qing Dynasty

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Last imperial dynasty of China

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Opium wars

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British get Chinese addicted to opium

War on trade->British win and get lease on Hong Kong

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Treaty of Nanjing

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British win trading privileges in China & lease on Hong Kong

(After opium wars)

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Sino-Japanese war

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Chinese humiliated by Japanese

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Taiping rebellion

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People of China want the gov’t to keep Europeans out

Rebellion against Qing Dynasty

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Cecil Rhodes

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British investor searching for riches in interior of Africa

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Belgian Congo

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After Congo is taken from King Leopold’s violent hands by Belgian government

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Arthur de Gobineau’s “The inequality of the races”

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“Purest white bloodline is superior”

Biology/blood/race determines this

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Herbert Spencer

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British philosopher that believed in the evolution theory and applied it to philosophy and psychology

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Scientific racism

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Social Darwinism

Manipulates Darwin’s ideas

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London Pan-African Conference

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Conference arguing for the rights of black people

30
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Fashoda incident

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Cold War between French and Britain over African territory

Britain gets egypt and fashoda but France gets everything else

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Menelik II

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Very strong Ethiopian leader

32
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Union of South Africa

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British and Boers(Dutch) become friends after the war and work together

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Cuba/Platt Amendment

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U.S has influence politically and economically over Cuba

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Philippine Insurrection

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The Philippines revolt against U.S, but lose

American colony

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Marx’s Das Kapital

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Anti-capitalism pro-communism

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German social democrat party

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Most organized socialist party

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Syndicalism

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Worker organizations working together to overthrow capitalism (socialist)

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“New women”

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Educated, job, dress how she wants, non conformity!

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France-Third Republic

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Ruling body of France after Franco-Prussian war.

40
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Paris commune

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Radical socialist/communist government after the defeat in Franco Prussian war before third French Republic

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Zionism

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Wanting to create a new Jewish nation state in the holy-land

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Reichstag

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Parliament of Germany 1871-1918

“House of representatives”

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Bismarck’s Kulturkampf

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The Catholic church vs. the State

Bismarck declares support for the Protestants but goes back and forth

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David Lloyd George/people’s budget

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High ranking liberal gov’t official

Tax on rich to pay for poor welfare programs

45
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Czar Nicholas II

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Last czar of Russia

46
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Mir

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Self governing community of peasants in Russia after serfdom abolished

47
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Russian socialist Democratic Party

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Wanted to abolish the capitalist system and move to a communist one

Revolutionary socialist political party (wanted to unite various revolutionary organizations into one)

48
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Mensheviks

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Faction of Russian social democratic workers party

Wanted gradual change unlike the Lenin led bolsheviks

49
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1905 Russian revolution

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Uprising that convinced the czar to attempt to transform the government

(Unemployment, poverty, etc.)

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Bloody Sunday

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Workers march to czar palace to demand reforms

Military opens fire-kills many

51
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October manifesto

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Pre-cursor to Russia’s first constitution

  • civil liberties
  • democratic legislative body
52
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Duma

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Lower house of the legislative assembly

53
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Peter Stolypin

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3rd prime minister of Russia

54
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Young Turks

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Turkish national party (students/civil servants) that wanted to replace the ottoman empires monarchy with a constitutional government

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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German philosopher that believes westerners were dominated by perception

You should create your own morals and values-life is purposeless

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Modernist art

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Creepy, violent, blended colors/not realistic

Evoke emotional response

“Revolt on canvas”

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French impressionists/Monet

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Captures the image of an object as if you just caught a glimpse of it (first impression)

Small visible brushstrokes

Bright and vibrant

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Expressionism/Munich

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Seeks to express emotion

Distorted, creepy, violent, wild

59
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Albert Einstein

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Relativity- laws of physics
-gravity, speed of light

Uncertainty!

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