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The Age Of Mass Politics Flashcards

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1871-1914 political parties dominate politics; ordinary people begin liking government; universal male suffrage in Western Europe; responsible representation by elected officials; welfare states; increased literacy rates

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Age of mass politics

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Federal union of Prussia and 24 smaller states

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German empire

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  • had ultimate power of Prussia

- delegated it to Bismarck

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Wilhem I

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Served as chancellor and mastermind behind government in Prussia

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Bismarck

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  • Two house legislature in Germany

- bicameral legislature including Bundestag and bundesrat

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Reichstag

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Lower house

Represented the volk

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Bundestag

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Conservative upper class elected by upper states

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Bundesrat

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Represented conservatives

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Junkers

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Struggle for civilization; Bismarck tried to limit the catholic center party; marriage had to be civil ceremonies; expelled Jesuits; too popular to be driven underground; failed to be suppressed

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Kultyrkampf

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Pope pius encourages people to get involved with politics; Bismarck tries to suppress center party but it didn’t work.

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Catholic center party

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Marxists want to reform Germany; Bismarck makes many reforms to suppress center party but it didn’t work

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Social Democratic Party (SPD)

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Forces Bismarck to resign

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Wilhem II

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Constitution provided for a republic; chamber of deputies; weak president; senate indirectly elected; government fell dozens of times.

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Third French Republic

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Lay seize to Paris; refuses to recognize the authority of National Assembly; 1871 fought bloody struggle with troops of NA; theirs defeats commune and led France to recovery

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Paris commune

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Made National Assembly and was chief executive; defeated commune and led France to recovery

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Theirs

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New legislature; most powerful branch in French government; elected through universal male suffrage

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Chamber of deputies

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At one point French leader; tax supported secular schooling; co sponsors Berlin conference

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Ferry

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Plotted to overthrow republic; fled to Belgium and committed suicide before trial; resulted in increased public confidence for the republic

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Boulanger crisis

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Wrote famous newspaper article defending Dreyfus called “j’accuse”

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Zola

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Gaines seats in chamber of deputies from 1905-1914;leader if socialist party

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Juares

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Last of Whig prime ministers; dominates British politics 1850-1865

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Palmerston

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Old Tori party led by Disraeli

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Conservative party

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Conservative; imperialist; had aggressive foreign policy, expansion of empire, supported democratic reform reluctantly; wrote Sybil expressing pity for working class; part of Conservative party

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Disraeli

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Old Whig party led by Gladstone

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Liberal party

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Most important of liberal figures; supported Irish home rule; fiscal policy, free trade & opposed liberalism; abolished compulsory tax to the Church of England

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Gladstone

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“Leap into the dark”; Disraeli;all men over 21 get the right to vote; redistributes seats to make them even

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Reform bill of 1867

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Granted suffrage to adult males in the countries in the same basis of the boroughs

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Reform act or 1884

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Socialist party; revisionists Marxists want changes through voting

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Fabian society

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29
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Led independent labor party

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Hardie

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30
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Led by hardie

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Independent labor party

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Most significant political reform during liberal party rule; eliminates power of House of Lords;House of Commons now center of national power

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Parliament act of 1911

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Leader Of national union of women’s suffrage society; demanded parliament grant female suffrage; helped grow suffrage movement and plates a role in national and international suffrage conferences; knighted 1924

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Fawcett

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Infuriates that parliament wouldn’t give women voting rights even when Finland and Norway had; FINISH

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Pankhurst

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1918; result of women’s contribution in a war; parliament gave women over 30 right to vote

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Representation of the people act

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35
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Should Ireland be given autonomy independence?

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Irish question

36
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Nationalistic group pushing for Irish independence

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Young Ireland

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Pushed by Gladstone; wanted autonomy for Ireland; Ulster; Protestant countries in Northern Ireland were opposed to home rule; Irish home rule act padded by commons and lords but Protestants didn’t accept it.

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Irish home rule

38
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Protestant countries in Northern Ireland that were opposed to home rule

39
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Irish attempt to declare independence in WWI in 1916

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Easter rebellion

40
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Who’s going to control the Balkans?

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Eastern question

41
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Ottoman Empire

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Sick man of Europe

42
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Idea all Slavs would be unified j see one government, Russia

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Pan-slavism

43
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Nationalistic spirit in Britain; comes from poem

44
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  1. WHAT ELSE??
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Congress of Berlin

45
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Write evolutionary socialism; most prominent of the socialist revisionists

46
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Spun off mainstream socialist movement; sought to destroy the centralized state

47
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Most influential of anarchists

48
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Greatest czar since Catherine the great; liberal; thought serfdom retarded modernization

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Alexander II

49
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Ending serfdom was key modernization; abolished serfdom; most Russians not imparted

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Emancipation act 1861

50
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Most Russians lived in highly regulated communes; collective ownership and responsibility made it hard to move

51
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Established in 1864 assemblies that administered local areas; Significant step towards popular participation; lords controlled these and gained more power

52
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Hostile group of intellectuals who believed they should take over society

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Intelligensia

53
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Oversaw Russian industrialization, aggressively courted western capital and advanced technology; rise of small middle class; built state owned railroads; put Russia on gold standard

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Most reactionary czar of the 19th century

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Alexander III

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Alexander IIIs program while on power; czar is supreme; church is supreme; becoming Russian in culture fully

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Autocracy, orthodoxy, Russification

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Violent persecutions of Jewish in Russian area

57
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Created idea of Zionism

58
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Advocates a Jewish homeland on the holy land as a remedy to continue persecution of Jews in eastern and Central Europe

59
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Last czar

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Nicholas II

60
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Both wanted piece of land; Japan won; huge humiliation for Russia

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Russo Japanese war

61
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Workers and peasants marched peacefully to winter palace asking for reform;czar wasn’t there but army was and killed many in cold blood

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Bloody Sunday

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Bloody Sunday;peasant revolt and troop mutinies paralyzed Russia by October and czar had to make changed

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Revolution of 1905

63
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Was an assembly creates that would serve as an advisory body for the czar; granted freedom Of speech assembly and press

64
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Mystic who dominates czars court in last days of empire; caused people to doubt the czar

65
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When just trading posts, no government, on coast

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Old imperialism

66
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When Europeans started going into Africa to begin conquests; set up colonies and government

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New imperialism

67
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One of the first white men to explore africa; gets lost doing missionary work; eventually found

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Livingston

68
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“Survival of the fittest” ;Europeans duty to take over weaker countries in Africa and Asia

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Social Darwinism

69
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Preached westerners superior and had obligation to spread culture to uncivilized people

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White mans burden

70
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Wrote white mans burden

71
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The Europeans countries scramble to stake claim of African land

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Scramble for Africa

72
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Conquered by leopold II king of Belgium

73
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King of Belgium hired Stanley to get control of Congo;didn’t treat native people humanely

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Leopold II

74
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Protectorate of Britain; model for new imperialism

75
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1884-85; establishes rules for co quest of Africa; established rules for conquest of Africa; slavery and slave trade in Africa terminates; sought to prevent conflict between imperial powers; sponsored by Bismarck and ferry

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Berlin conference

76
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Britain pushed southward from Egypt; battle of Omdurman general Kitchener defeated Sudanese tribe

77
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Kitchener defeated Sudanese tribe

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Battle of Omdurman

78
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1898; France and Britain nearly went to war over Sudan but France backed down due to the Dreyfus affair

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Fashoda incident

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Prime minister of cape colony in South Africa

80
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British colony in South Africa; prime minister was Rhodes

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Cape colony

81
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Between Dutch farmers and British after diamonds and gold discovered

82
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Congratulated boers in not needing German assistance, angered Britain

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Kruger telegram

83
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Area controlled by France since 1830

84
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Only African nation to defeat European nation

85
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First opium war 1839-1841britain occupied several costal cities and forces china to surrender

86
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Gave Hong Kong to Britain until 1997; four treaty ports were open to British trade

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Treaty of Nanking

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