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31 Cards in this Set
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Congress of Vienna |
Meeting of the quadruple alliance and France held in 1814-1815 for a peace settlement |
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Conservatism |
Stresses retaining traditional values and institutions, including hereditary monarchy and strong landowning aristocracy |
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Liberalism |
Equality and liberty; representative gov. And equality before the law |
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Laissez-faire |
Doctrine of economic liberalism advocating unrestricted private enterprise and no gov. Interference in the economy |
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Nationalism |
Each people had its own genius and it's own cultural unity and could serve as basis for an independent political state |
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Socialism |
Opposed individualism and advocated international cooperation and sense of community |
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Bourgeoisie |
Well educated, prosperous, middle class groups |
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Proletariat |
Mourxist term for modern working class |
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Modernization |
Changes that enable a country ro compete effectively with the leading countries at a given time |
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October manifesto |
Result of a general strike in Russia in oct. 1905; granted civil rights and promised an elected Duma (parliament) with legislative power |
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Germ theory |
Idea that disease is caused by spread of living, controllable organisms |
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Evolution |
Darwin - all life is gradually evolved from a common origin through natural selection |
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Social Darwinism |
Apply biological evolution to human affairs |
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Romanticism |
Movement in arts characterized with a belief in emotional exuberance, unrestrained imagination, and spontaneity |
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Dreyfus Affair |
Alfred Dreyfus, falsely accused and convicted of treason |
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Zionismm |
Movement toward Jewish political nationhood started by the odor herzl |
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Revisionism |
Effort by various socialists to update mourxist doctrines to reflect the realities of the time |
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Palm oil |
West African tropical product most often used for soap; encouraged by British to be an alternative to slave trade |
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Jihad |
War waged by Muslim scholars and religious leaders against animus rulers and Islamic states deemed corrupt |
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Sokoto Caliphate |
State based on Islamic History and law, 1809 by uthman Dan Fodio |
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Berlin conference |
Meeting of European leaders to lay down rules for imperialist comp. In sub Saharan Africa |
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Protectorate |
Autonomous state or territory partly controlled by stronger outside power |
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Afrikaners |
Descendants of Dutch settlers in Cape colony in Southern Africa |
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New imperalism |
19th century drive to create vast political empires abroad |
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Quinine |
Agent that proved effective in controlling attacks of malaria |
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White Man's burden |
Civilize more primitive non white people's and imperialism would eventually provide non whites with modern achievements |
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Tanzimat |
Radical reforms to remake ottoman empire on a western European model |
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Young Turks |
Seized Power in rev. Of 1908 helped pave way for birth of modern secular turkey |
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Great migration |
Mass movement of people from Europe in the 19th century |
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Migration chain |
Movement of people in which one strong individual blazes the way and others follow |
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Great white walls |
Discriminatory laws to jeep Asians out of America and Australians in 1880s |
