| Definition | Term |
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| Congo was his privately owned colony, big on rubber harvesting | |
| The idea that all we know is through our senses | |
| German ruler that expressed his support and provides not so covert aid to the Afrikaners in 1899-1902 Boer War against Great Britain | |
| Japan seizes Manchuria from Russians, Russia land and naval forces destroyed | |
| Young Turks combine sense of Turkish nationalism and western influence | |
| People displaced from stable rural communities with safeguards of religion/family/agrarian work--coming to cities without forces of conscious underguarding them | |
| Cant discuss slavery in congress in order to avoid violence on House Flooe | |
| Smaller scale in Africa-1 million square miles | |
| Union general that defeats Lee in war of atrition in Northern Virginia | |
| Manages municipal redevelopment of Paris | |
| Chinese officials wish to stop the outflow of silver from China, and an influx of opium brought by British traders and Central Asia | |
| Russia unconditionally surrender Eastern European territtory to Germany | |
| Wide avenues through the center of the city built during redevelopment of Paris | |
| Leader of Japan | |
| Local warlords that dominate Japan domestically | |
| English scientist that creates a carbolic acid for cleaning | |
| 'March to the Sea' brings 'Total War' to Georgia--burned everything | |
| Good birth encourage the right kind of people to have children, discourage/prevent those unfit to have children from having them | |
| Bellicose popular nationalism. Pride in nations imperialistic conquests, as source of national prestige. | |
| Spiritualism Trend, associated with cultural movement of decadence, anything about spirituality they thought was great at this time | |
| Cultural movement that celebrates degeneration, sickness, the occult | |
| Drug-The elixir of the Gods | |
| Rule China since 1644, slow to grasp threat of West | |
| The suburbs, new impoverished slums right outside of Paris | |
| Painted the Scream | |
| Opens new ports to trade, allows/opium silver trade to continue/ grants Britsih special trading status in China | |
| Driving force in the creation of a powerful German state, both militrily and diplomatically | |
| Chief Justice in the Dred Scott case-end of free vs salve states, basically all slave staes | |
| Indentured labor trade from China to Americas, payment in silver to Britain and France, annexation of some land by Russia | |
| | Definition | Term |
|---|
| Support Bismarck | |
| System from 1815 Congress of Vienna that had kept the great powers in check | |
| Beat unconscious by Preston Brooks | |
| Northerners must participate in helping return runaway slaves to their slave owners | |
| State legislature, nicholas agrees to create this | |
| British liner sunk by German U-Boats in 1915, Kills 139 Americans | |
| How do social elites respond to the dire conditions in which most of the working class lived and labored in the new world of urban industrial capitalism | |
| Emancipated Russian serfs in an effort to please everyone, however ended up upsetting all social groups | |
| Republican Rutherford Hayes gets to be president on condition that Reconstruction ends | |
| Belief in the centrality of racial and class hierarchy to mans natural process of evolution | |
| Belief that all new territories should be free states without slavery | |
| Wilhelm II abdicates, German general take over and surrender to Allies | |
| Civil engineer commissioned by City of Worcester to build a pseudo Central park for Worcester | |
| Set up by Bismarck, carves up Africa among European powers by looking at map, no consideration for local populations | |
| Symbolist painting | |
| Leader of Bolsheviks | |
| Small british force wipes out 23,000 Dervishes in less that an hour with Maxim Gun(1st machine gun) | |
| A sense of superiority, extension of French idea of civilizing mission to give indigenous people access to western culture--invest heavily in school | |
| Many middle class women got it because their husbands went to prostitutes in large numbers | |
| Destroys Peoples will, domestic war against militant radicals | |
| Resulted in complete legalization of opium trade | |
| Increasing pessimism about the world | |
| A morning in which more than 60,000 British men are killled by a handful of German machine gun nests | |
| Created by Bismarck to work on behalf of the masses | |
| Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy | |
| Demand immediate end to serfdom, the redistribution of all feudal lands to the serfs and the formation of a democratic socialsit form of gov. in Russia | |
| Ends the gag rule | |
| Confederate general | |
| Secret terrorist group, serbian nationalist | |
| | Definition | Term |
|---|
| Unsentimental view of politics characterized by a focus on tangible 'national interests' rather than broader moral concerns or delusions of grandeur | |
| Formal organizations that aided runaway slaves organized in most northern cities in late 1830s | |
| Developed the germ theory in 1870s; immunization against disease, basic sanitary practices | |
| South carolina congressman that beats Mass congressman Charles Sumner unconscious after he delivers abolitionist speech on House flooe | |
| Hidden psychological depths(beneath surface, terryfying inner emotions waiting to be unleauhsed) | |
| British imperial rule on outgrowth of increasing political/economic power of British East India Company(monopoly on tea) | |
| Heir to the Austro-Hungarian thonre assassinated on June 28th, 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia | |
| Cultural responses to an age of degeneration: a passion for the unseen, evoke feeling, the supernatural, hallucinations: poetry, painting | |
| Japan seizes Korea, powerful modern Japanese army overwhelms Chinese forces | |
| Iron clad battleships with powerful cannons used in Naval rilvalry between GB and Germany | |
| President after Lincoln is assassinated | |
| Bombs Francis Ferdinand and his wife to death | |
| Responds to demands of social elites who want civil service reform | |
| Political organizations interested in peasant agrarain reform | |
| Women going crazy, taking to their beds for long periods of time because they have nothing to do | |
| Minority: democratic socialism through the political process, organize urban laborers, through constitutional means bring about Socialsm | |
| 2.6 million square miles, much of it it is Sahara Desert, holding land for prestige | |
| Line drawn across the country that separates the slave states from the free ones | |
| Alliance between GB, France and Russia | |
| Majority: The Revolutionary wing, no time to wait for history to play out, must violently overthrow Tsarist govt. and install socialsim | |
| Three motivations for Imperialism | |
| Between visibile things and invisible meaning | |
| Critics of Imperial crushed at polls, anti imperialists take control of LIberal party | |
| Legal challenge to the Fugitive State Law | |
| Describes as a black mass | |
| 4. 5 million square miles worldwide | |
| Sepent entwined around Virgin MAry | |
| Incompetent son of Alexander II, tries to assert increaing political control | |
| Organization within Land and liberty, worlds first modern terrorist organization | |
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