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World History LTMs U4 Flashcards

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American “inventor” of electric light bulb; “wizard of Menlo Park”

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Thomas Edison

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developed telephone and microphone

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Alexander Graham Bell

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sent first radio waves across the Atlantic; wireless telegraph

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Marconi

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this invention gave rise to ocean liners, airplanes, and automobiles

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internal-combustion engine

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first to fly powered, sustained, controlled flight

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Wright brothers

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three important elements in mass production

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  1. assembly line
  2. division of labor
  3. interchangeable parts
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“Communist Manifesto”; socialism; “history of class struggle”; communism

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Karl Marx

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group of workers who seek improvement of wages, conditions, and benefits

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union

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leading Am. suffragist; Declaration of Rights and Sentiment

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Austro-Hungarian emperor who basically ignored Parliament

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Francis Joseph

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Russian czar who believed in autocracy; granted some liberties but basically ignored people’s wishes; Duma

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Nicholas II

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French chemists who discovered radium, radioactivity, atoms gave off light

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Marie Curie & Pierre Curie

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Marxist name for the working class

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proletariat

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members of the Triple Alliance

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Austria-Hungary, Italy, Germany

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members of the Triple Entente

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Great Britain, France, Russia

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German scientist; special theory of relativity = space and time are not absolute; E=MC^2

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Albert Einstein

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German scientist; special theory of relativity = space and time are not absolute; E=MC^2

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Albert Einstein

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psychoanalysis; human behavior determined by past experience and internal forces

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Sigmund Freud

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“survival of the fittest”; British philosopher; social Darwinism

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Herbert Spencer

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Jewish nationalist movement; Herzl; goal of Jewish homeland in Palestine

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Zionism

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3 men who strongly influenced the automobile industry

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  1. Henry Ford
  2. Benz
  3. Daimier
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germ theory of disease; microbiology; rabies vaccine; pasteurization

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Louis Pasteur

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art movement that presented an impression of a scene at a given moment in time

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Impressionism

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Industrial Revolution began here because of resources, workers, capital, and markets

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Great Britain

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one invention that increased efficiency and spread of industry production

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Cotton Gin

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one invention that increased efficiency and spread of industry in transportation

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steam engine

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population poses the greatest challenge to human progress; ppl multiply more rapidly than food supply despite natural checks

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necessary factors of production during Industrial Revolution

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land, labor, capital

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3 cons to Industrial Revolution

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  1. child labor
  2. decreased life expectancy
  3. harsh working conditions
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3 pros to Industrial Revolution

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  1. mechanical advancements
  2. transportation advancements
  3. city growth
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3 pros to Industrial Revolution

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  1. mechanical advancements
  2. transportation advancements
  3. city growth
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movement that stressed individualism, emotion, and imagination

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Romanticism

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“Origins of the Species”; evolution from simpler forms; natural selection; controversial

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Charles Darwin

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movement that stressed every day, ordinary life; precise descriptions; social issues

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Russians seek warm water ports in the Black Sea; war against Ottomans, GB, and France

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Crimean War

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2 Italian leaders - one from North, one from South - who unite almost all of Italy

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  1. Victor Emmanuel II
  2. Giuseppe Garibald
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militaristic Prussian prime minister; fought many wars and helped German unification

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Otto von Bismark

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2 provinces given to Germany at end of Franco-Prussian war; leads to lasting resentment

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  1. Alsace
  2. Lorraine
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reign from 1837-1901 longest in English history; sense of duty and moral respectability; age named after her

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founded 1st nursing school; served as a nurse during Crimean War; improved sanitary cond.

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Florence Nightingale

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2 reasons for American Civil War

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  1. slavery
  2. states rights
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important class that developed as a result of the IR; bought products; kids educated

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middle class

43
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domination by a powerful nation over the political, economic, and cultural affairs of another nation or region

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imperialism

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responsibility to civilize and Christianize primitive peoples

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white man’s burden

45
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region in which, although a native ruler kept his title, a foreign power actually ruled

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proctorate

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Egypt; linked the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea; British take control of Egypt

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Suez Canal

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British explorer and missionary who traveled though Central Africa; wanted find navigatable river

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David Livingstone

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Indian soldiers rise against British; caused by culture clash = gun cartridges; though crushed it was 1st attempt to oust British from SE Asia

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Sepoy Mutiny

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Indian revolutionary leader; lawyer; nonviolent resistance; civil disobedience

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Mohandas Gandhi

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Indian writer, educator, and philosopher; promoted pride in national Indian consciousness

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Rabindranath Tagore

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two South American men who led revolutions for LA independence with great success

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Simon Bolivar
Jose de San Martin

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U.S. president advises Europeans to stay out of the Western Hemisphere; 1823

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Monroe Doctrine

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