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liberal |
favored elected parliaments as led by educated landowners; mostly middle class |
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nationalism |
the belief that people's greatest loyalty should be to a nation of people who share a common culture and history |
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nation-state |
a nation that has its own independent government |
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realpolitik |
tough power politics based on force and not morals or ideals |
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when and where did bismarck declare the new nation of germany |
versailles 1871 |
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what did you europeans resort to |
imperialism to gain new sources of raw materials |
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social darwinism |
applied "natural selection" to human societies, saying that the most successful societies were superior to others |
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technologies that helped europe dominate others |
better weapons (machine guns, cannons), better communication (steamships, railroads, cables), better medicine (quinine) |
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berlin conference allowed |
europeans to claim any land they could control on africa |
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in the great trek |
the boers migrated northward |
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capitalism |
economic system in which individuals control their own property |
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best defense of capitalism |
equal opportunity for success |
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utilitarianism |
philosophy that seeks greatest good for greatest number of people |
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socialism |
economic system in which government owns factors of production and individuals own their own property |
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need for government in communism |
no need except to get it started |
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who championed the communist manifesto |
karl marx and friedrich engels |
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what did communism believe the proletariat would do |
proletariat would one day rise up in violence and overthrow bourgeoise, and set up communism |
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who led russia, china, and cuba |
a small group of leaders |
