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Max Planck
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rejected belief that a heated body radiates in a steady stream , instead in irregular packets called quantas
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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glorified the irrational, said bourgeoisie society was incapable of real cultural creativity, Christianity had obliterated the human impulse for life
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Henri Bergson
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French philosopher, accepted rational, scientific thought as a practical instrument for providing useful knowledge but maintained that was incapable of arriving at truth or ultimate reality
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Social Darwinism
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an application of the theory of natural selection to social, political, and economic issues. follows the mantra of "the strong survive," including human issues. This theory was used to promote the idea that the white European race was superior to others, and therefore, destined to rule over them.
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Emile Zola
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French Naturalist writer who showed how alcoholism and different environments affected peoples lives
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Leo Tolstoy
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Russian writer who imposed a fatalistic view of history that proved irrelevant in the face of lifes enduring values of human love and trust
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Russia writer who emphasized that failure to incorporate spiritual belief would result in tyranny
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Paul Cezanne
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Post-Impressionist artist who sought to express the geometric structure of everything
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Art was a spiritual experience; interested in color and believed it could act as its own form of language
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Pablo Picasso
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Spanish artist who was instrumental in development of Cubism that used geometric designs as visual stimuli to re-create reality
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Wassily Kandinsky
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Russian artist, was one of founders of abstract painting, sought to avoid representation altogether, art should speak directly to soul
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Edvard Grieg
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Scandinavian composer, Norwegian nationalist which was reflected in his music, folk
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Claude Debussy
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Impressionist composer inspired by visual arts
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Igor Stravinsky
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chief exponent of musical privitism, wrote pieces based on Russian folklore, sought new understanding of irrational forces
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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founded the Women's Social and Political Union 1903, took radical approach to protesting like throwing eggs at officials, smashing windows
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Russo-Japanese War
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Rivalry for dominance in Korea and Manchuria, Russia didn't have a lot of support from it's people, loses, Japan annex's Korea
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Sergei Witte
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Minister of Finance, saw industrial growth as crucial to national strength, introduces programs to build railroads and increase steel/coal industry
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Peter Stolypin
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Tsar's chief advisor, dissolved village ownership of land and brought private ownership by enterprising peasants
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Bloody Sunday (Revolution of 1905)
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Workers went to to Winter Palace to present a petition of grievances to the tsar, soldiers fired into the crowd
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Leopold II
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King of Belgium, rushed into pursuit of empire in the Congo, first to really go into interior of Africa
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Spheres of Influence
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A country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.
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Triple Alliance
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Military Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and later Italy
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Reinsurance Treaty
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Kinda renewal of The Three Emporer's League between Russia and Germany, and Austria, recreate tie in fear that France and Russia would ally
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Entente Cordial
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Between France and Britain, ended all outstanding colonial disputes, Britain got Suez Canal and France got Morocco
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Triple Entente
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France, Britain, and Russia ally; Russia was suspicious of the Germans and decided to sign agreement. Two major bloc- Triple Alliance and Triple Entente
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Anti-Semitism and Zionism
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Racism against the Jewish population, prominent in both Western and Eastern Europe; a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in Palestine
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Labour Party and Trade Unions
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Trade Unions advocated more radical change of economic system, calling for "collective ownership and control over production, distribution, and exchange"; Fabian Socialists who wanted to capture the House of Commons and pass legislation that would benefit the working class, wanted evolution toward a socialist state by democratic means
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