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