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Chapter 25- Modernity and the Road to War, 1890-1914-Sarah Kingstone

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Oscar Wilde   show
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show A British doctor, sexual psychologist and social reformer. Wrote the book Sexual Inversion to describe the sexual relations of homosexual men, something that he did not consider to be a disease.  
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show A Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic. He played a major role in the World Zionist Organization and his relative fame certainly helped bring attention to the Zionist movement.  
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show An Austrian neurologist and co-founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Known for his theories of the unconscious mind, involving repression; his redefinition of sexual desire as mobile and the value of dreams as insight into unconscious desire  
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show The book introduces the Ego, and describes Freud's theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation. This was widely considered to be his most important contribution to psychology.  
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“modernism”   show
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John Dewey   show
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Max Weber   show
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Friedrich Nietzsche   show
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Antoine Becquerel   show
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Marie Curie   show
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show French physicist, pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. Won Nobel Prize in physics with his wife and Becquerel, for “extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena”  
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Max Planck   show
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Albert Einstein   show
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show Proposed by Albert Einstein. Stated that all uniform motion was relative, that there was no absolute and well-defined state of rest and that all observers will measure the speed of light to be the same no matter what their state of uniform linear motion.  
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show A French artist, noted for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship as a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter.  
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Paul Cézanne   show
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Pablo Picasso   show
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Anti-Semitism   show
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Pogroms   show
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Alfred Dreyfus   show
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show An influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France.  
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Magyarization   show
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show A physician, a Zionist pioneer and activist, and the founder and leader of the Hovevei Zion movement.  
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Theodor Herzl   show
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show A movement that began in the late nineteenth century among European Jews to found a Jewish state.  
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Cecil Rhodes   show
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Spanish-American War, 1898   show
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Boer War   show
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Sino-Japanese War   show
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show Battle of Tsushima, fought on May 27 and May 28, 1905 took place there; due east of the north part of Tsushima and due north of Iki Island between the Japanese and Russian navies in 1905; the Russian fleet was virtually destroyed by the Japanese.  
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show The massacre of peaceful protesters at Winters Square in St. Petersberg in 1905 that turned ordinary workers against the tsar and produced a wave of general indignation.  
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Georges Braque   show
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Edvard Munch   show
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show An American dancer and is considered by many to be the Mother of Modern Dance.  
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show Russian composer. Achieved international fame with three ballets including "The Rite of Spring". The Rite, whose premiere provoked a riot, transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure.  
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show A French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel he is considered the most prominent figure working within the style commonly referred to as Impressionist music.  
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Richard Strauss   show
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Arnold Schoenberg   show
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V.I. Lenin   show
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show Members of the Marxist Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party which became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Known for seizing power during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and for founding the Soviet Union.  
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show A faction of the Russian revolutionary movement that emerged in 1903 after a dispute between Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov, both members of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party.  
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show A British suffragist and an early feminist. As a suffragist, she took a moderate line, but was a tireless campaigner, concentrating much of her energy on the struggle to improve women's opportunities for higher education.  
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Susan B. Anthony   show
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show The leading militant organization campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. It was the first group whose members were known as "suffragettes".  
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Emmeline Pankhurst   show
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show Passed by Parliament, a foundation of modern social welfare in the UK. This provided for time-limited unemployment and medical benefits. Based on actuarial principles, it would be funded by a fixed amount each from workers, employers and the government.  
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show A protest in St. Petersburg, the result of discontent from Russian factory workers and peasants as well as an emerging nationalist sentiment among the empires minorities was put down by armed force and unrest redoubled, October strikes ensued.  
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show Russian parliament opened in 1906, elected indirectly by universal male suffrage but with absolute veto power from the tsar.  
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Pyotr Stolypin   show
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Boxer Rebellion   show
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show A Chinese revolutionary and political leader, the “father of modern China”. Played an instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty in 1911. The first provisional president of the Republic of China was founded in 1912. A uniting figure.  
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show A dynasty founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro, in what is now northeast China. They expanded into China and the surrounding territories, to create the last Imperial dynasty of China.  
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B. G. Tilak   show
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“arms race”   show
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show Brought together Br. trade unions representing miners, railway men and transport workers. The formation of this followed a period of trade union growth and strike action and signaled a significant step towards greater unity within trade unionism.  
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Entente Cordiale   show
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show The alliance formed in 1907 among the United Kingdom, France and Russia. Though not a military alliance, the alignment of the three powers, constituted a powerful counterweight to the "Triple Alliance" of Imperial Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.  
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Morocco Crises, 1905 and 1911   show
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First Balkan War, 1912   show
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Second Balkan War, 1913   show
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Alfred Nobel   show
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Alfred von Tirpitz   show
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show The United Kingdom completed this in 11 months. It carried ten 12-inch guns in 5 turrets, and was powered by revolutionary (for large ships) steam turbines. It was the first of the new breed of "all-big-gun" battleships.  
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show Founded at Dhaka in 1906, was a political party in British India and was the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state from British India on the Indian subcontinent.  
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Young Turks   show
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Archduke Frans Ferdinand   show
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Gavril Princip   show
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show This term was also used to describe how the Kaiser of Germany told Austria-Hungary officials that they could deal with Serbia however they wanted after Serbian Nationalists assassinated the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, Archduke Franz Ferdinand.  
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show A Br. politician and ornithologist who became Foreign Secretary with many notable accomplishments: completion of the Entente with Rus. in 1907, the peaceful settlement of the Agadir Crisis, and leading the joint mediation for the end of the Balkan Wars.  
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Schlieffen Plan   show
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Art Nouveau   show
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Mitteleuropa   show
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show A feminist ideal which emerged in the final decades of the 19th century in Europe and North America. It was a reaction to the role, as characterized by the so-called Cult of Domesticity, ascribed to women in the Victorian era.  
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show Based on the work of Freud to discover connections among the unconscious parts of patients' mental processes. The goal is to liberate the patient from unconscious resistence and past patterns of relating that are not serviceable or inhibit freedom.  
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Suffragists   show
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show A social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention. The goals have variously been to create healthier, more intelligent people, save society's resources, and lessen human suffering.  
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show A Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 and is known for first describing the phenomenon known as classical conditioning in his experiments with dogs.  
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Vaslav Nijinsky   show
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show An effort by various socialists to update Marxian doctrines to reflect the realities of the time.  
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show A council of workers in the former Soviet Union. The main form of government at all levels of post-revolutionary Russian Soviet Union.  
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show A United States Navy officer, geostrategist, and educator who wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783, and The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793-1812.  
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show A philosophy developed by Auguste Comte, mid 19th century that stated that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can only come from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method.  
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show An avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture and inspired related movements in music and literature. In artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form.  
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show A political philosophy centered on rejection of any form of compulsory government. Thus, it is the belief that all forms of rulership (and thus also voluntary or involuntary servitude) are undesirable and should be abolished.  
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Pragmatism   show
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Relativism   show
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show The tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect; it is a subjective art form. This is exhibited in many art forms, including painting, literature, film, architecture and music. The term often implies emotional angst.  
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