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8984796657zionismA movement to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine0
8984797048social darwinismthe application of Darwinian ideas to society, namely, the evolutionary "survival of the fittest"1
8984798086socialisma political theory advocating state ownership of industry2
8984799380nationalismadvocacy of political independence for a particular country3
8984800782anti semitismprejudice against Jews4
8984803487imperialisma policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force5
8984803902BismarckGerman statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898)6
8984804370CavourPrime minister of Sardinia who united northern Italy7
8984805012MetternichAustrian foreign minister who promoted conservatism and Concert of Europe8
8984805509liberalismthe holding of liberal views9
8984805955conservatismthe holding of political views that favor free enterprise, private ownership, and socially conservative ideas10
8984808593romantic nationalismform of nationalism in which the state derives its political legitimacy as an organic consequence of the unity of those it governs11
8984809798crimean wara military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia12
8984810727revolutions of 1848series of republican revolts against European monarchies, beginning in Sicily, and spreading to France, Germany, Italy, and the Austrian Empire13
8984811626alliance systemhe alliance system was made up of two groups, the Central powers and the Allied powers14
8984815612industrial revthe transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 184015
8984817784second industrial revknown as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of rapid industrialization16
8984818471balance of powerthe power held by a small group when larger groups are of equal strength17
8984819027MarxGerman philosopher and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto18
8984821385proletariatworkers or working-class people19
8984822255bourgeoisiethe middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values20
8984824046trade/labor unionorganization of workers who have come together to achieve common goals21
8984824734realpolitika system of politics22
8984827263dual monarchy of austriare-established the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Hungary, separate from, and no longer subject to the Austrian Empire23
8984828578Sigmund FreudAustrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst24
8984832792EinsteinGerman-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics25
8984833183feminismthe advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes26
8984834746laissez-fairea policy or attitude of letting things take their own course27

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