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5992268700"Iron and Blood"Title of a speech by Minister President of Prussia Otto von Bismarck.0
5992268701"Bessemer Converter"Steel-making process in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort.1
5992268702"Mauve Decade"Considered as a social and cultural period characterized by prosperity and complacency.2
5992268703Suez CanalSea-level canal in Northeast Egypt.3
5992268704Submarine Telegraph CablesCable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean.4
5992268705Business CycleSeries of cycles of economic expansion and contraction.5
5992268706SocialismPolitical and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.6
5992268707Labor UnionOrganized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests.7
5992268708International Working Men's Association (the First International)International organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing socialist, communist and anarchist political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.8
5992268709Universal Male SuffrageForm of voting rights in which all adult males within a political system are allowed to vote, regardless of income, property, religion, race, or any other qualification.9
5992268710Social Democratic Party of GermanySocial-democratic political party in Germany.10
5992268711ReichstagParliament.11
5992268712"Separate Spheres"Ideology that defines and prescribes separate spheres for women and men.12
5992268713NationalismPatriotic feeling, principles, or efforts.13
5992268714LiberalismHolding of liberal views.14
5992268715"Russify"Make Russian in character.15
5992268716"Splendid Isolation"Used to emphasize the isolation of a person or thing.16
5992268717"Tinderbox of Europe"Box for holding tinder, usually fitted with a flint and steel.17
5992268718PogromsOrganized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe.18
5992268719"Jim Crow Laws"State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.19
5992268720Charter OathPromulgated at the enthronement of Emperor Meiji of Japan.20
5992268721ZaibatsuLarge Japanese business conglomerate.21
5992268722King Wilhelm IGrandson of Queen Victoria and Kaiser of Germany.22
5992268723Otto von BismarckConservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs.23
5992268724Alfred NobelScientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author and pacifist.24
5992268725Michael FaradayEnglish physicist and chemist.25
5992268726Thomas EdisonUnited States inventor.26
5992268727Karl MarxPhilosopher and economist famous for his ideas about capitalism and communism.27
5992268728Giuseppe MazziniItalian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy and spearheaded the Italian revolutionary movement.28
5992268729Charles DarwinBritish naturalist of the nineteenth century.29
5992268730Herbert SpencerEnglish philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.30
5992268731Tsar Alexander IISon of Nicholas I.31
5992268732Empress Dowager CixiEffectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years.32
5992268733Yamagata AritomoField marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army and twice Prime Minister of Japan.33
5992268734Commodore Matthew C. PerryUnited States admiral who led a naval expedition to Japan and signed a treaty in 1854 opening up trade relations between United States and Japan.34
5992268735MutsuhitoEmperor of Japan who presided over the transformation of feudal Japan into a modern constitutional state.35
5992268736The Victorian AgeLong period of peace, prosperity, "refined sensibilities" and national self-confidence for the United Kingdom.36
5992268737The Meiji RestorationChain of events that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.37
5992268738Russo-Japanese WarWar fought between Russia and Japan over rival territorial claims.38
5992268739Revolution of 1905Uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy.39
5992268740Boxer RebellionChinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there.40
5992268741Treaty of KanagawaAgreement between the United States of America and the government of Japan.41
5992268742The Communist Manifesto and Das KapitalDone with Friedrich Engels.42
5992268743On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural SelectionConsidered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.43
5992268744Which countries surpassed Great Britain as the world's most industrial nation?The United States and Germany.44
5992268750Summarize the basic beliefs of Karl Marx.Karl Marx's basic beliefs are labor theory of value, class struggle, alienation and communism.45

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