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18 Cards in this Set
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2nd Industrial Revolution |
It's called the "Second wave" of the industrial revolution. There was a shift from iron to steel. Electricity was invented and used to power larger factories. Wireless telegraph wqs invented and railroads were improved.
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The internal combustion engine
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Invented by Siegfried Marcus and allowed for the invention of the automobile.
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European Economic Zones
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Germany now became the science leader.
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White Collar Jobs
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Jobs that middle class women worked such as secretaries, teachers and nurses.
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German Social Democrats
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Also known as the SPD and they advocated for better conditions for the proletariat and became the largest political group in Germany by the start of WW1. |
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Evolutionary Socialism |
A socialist doctrine espoused by Eduard Bernstein who argued that socialist should stress cooperation and evolution to attain power by democratic means rather than by conflict and revolution. |
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Anarchism |
The idea that government should be over thrown and there should be no government, freedom, and chaos. |
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Plutocrats |
Members of the wealthy elite. |
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"The Women Question" |
The question regarding whether women would gain the same rights as men and it wasn't answered until after WW1. |
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Mass Education |
A state-run educational system, usually free and compulsory, that aims to ensure that all children in society have at least a basic education. |
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Mass Society
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a society in which the concerns of the majority (the lower class) play a prominent role; characterized by extension of voting rights, an improved standard of living for the lower classes, and mass education.
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Einstein
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German born, created the relativity theory that space and time were not absolute but relative to the observer and both were interwoven into a 4 dimensional space continuum.
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Nietzche
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Glorified the irrational. Western bourgeois was decadent and incapable of any real cultural activity because of rational faculty.
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Sigmund Freud
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Had a series of theories theories that undermined optimism about the rational nature of the human mind.
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Social Darwinism
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The application of Darwin's principle of organic evolution to the social order; led to the belief that progress comes from the struggle for survival as the fittest advance and the weak decline. It was an exuse for racism.
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Modernism
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The artistic and literary styles that emerged in the decades before 1914 as artists rebelled against traditional efforts to portray reality as accurately as possible (leading to Impressionism and Cubism) and writers explored new forms.
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Post-Impressionism
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An artistic movement that began in France in the 1880s. Post-Impressionists sought tonuse color and line to express inner feelings and prodoce a personal statement of reality.
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The Zionist Movement and Pogroms
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An international movement that called for the establishment of a Jewish state or a refuge for Jews in Palestine. (organized massacres of the Jews)
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