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144620408Coney Island and Blackpoolcreated as a way for working-class people to temporarily escape the hardships of the working, Coney Island became an amusement park with rides and attractions that contrasted the grim realities many were living; seaside resort in England that the middle class had access to prior of the increase in leisure time.0
144620409Thomas EdisonAmerican inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures.1
144620410Joseph Swandeveloped a primitive electric lightbulb that gave off dim light by passing heat through a small strip of paper2
144620411Alexander Graham Bellinventor of the telephone3
144620412Guglielmo Marconisent the first radio waves across the Atlantic in 1901.4
144620413Henry FordAmerican businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.5
144620414Kitty Hawk, North Carolinasite of first flight on December 17, 19036
144620415Serge Whitefinance minister to nicholas, made economic development a key goal, secured foreign capitol, encouraged rail road building7
144620416Karl Marxfounder of modern communism8
144620417Engelsdeveloped communist theory with Karl Marx. Co-wrote the Communist Manifesto9
144620418Communist Manifestoa socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1842) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views10
144620419bourgeois and proletarian stages of developmentThe middle class ; and the stages in which the proletariat fight for control over the working class/wealth11
144620420Second Industrial Revolution(1871-1914) Involved development of chemical, electrical, oil, and steel industries. Mass production of consumer goods also developed at this time through the mechanization of the manufacture of food and clothing. It saw the popularization of cinema and radio. Provided widespread employment and increased production.12
144620421The first and second internationalsCommunist-based meetings, the first of which was organized by Marx and held in 1864, were meant to afford a central medium of communication and cooperation for the working class13
144620422SPD(Social Democratic Party of Germany) Founded during the latter part of the 19th century, it was Germany's largest party until 1932. Its strength was based in the growing industrial working class.14
144620423public health movementSought to remedy the high disease and mortality rate that occurred in cities. People sought to sanitize cities by creating sewage systems and cleaning up the environment15
144620424Trades unionsAn association of workers in the same trade, formed to help members secure better wages, benefits, and working conditions.16
144620425V.A. Huberhe was one of the first German housing reformer who beleived that good housing necessary for a stable society and stable family life17
144620426Octavia HillBritish housing reformer who rehabilitated old dwellings and built new dewllings for 3500 tenants.18
144620427Amalie Sievekinga nursing pioneer who founded the Female Association for the Care of the Poor and Sick in Hamburg19
144620428Florence NightingaleEstablished sanitary nursing care units. Founder of modern nursing. began professional education of nursing.20
144620429Clara BartonNurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross21
144620430The pankhursts Woman's Social and Political Unionearly 20th century women who founded the Women's Social and Political Union ; The union formed by the pankhursts22
144620431Maria montessoriItalian physician who gained international fame for her philosophy of teaching, which allowed students to learn in a noncompetitive and relaxed atmosphere.23
144620432Bertha von Suttner's Lay Down Your Armswritten by Bertha von Suttner, this book called for an elimination or at least a reduction of the arms during the arms race of the 1890's24
144620433Porfirio Diaza dictator who dominated Mexico, permitted foriegn companies to develop natural resources and had allowed landowners to buy much of the countries land from poor peasants25
144620434Francesco MaderoLiberal landowner that forced Porfirio Diaz from power26
144620435Latin America ExportsIncluded foodstuffs and raw materials.27
144620436Emiliano ZapataMexican revolutionary who led a revolt for agrarian reforms28
144620437Thirteenth , Fourteenth and Fifteenth AmendmentsThe constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude; a constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians; The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.29
144620438Progressive Eratime at the turn of the 20th century in which groups sought to reform America economically, socially, and politically30
144620439Spanish-American WarIn 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence31
144620440Wilfred LaurierFrist French-Canadian prime minister. Resolved the issue of separate schools for French Canadians32
144620441British Reform acts of 1867 and 1884Greatly expanded the number of male adults who could vote33
144620442The Reichstag and The DumaThe lower house of the German parliament; , The elected legislative body in Russia took place of czar34
144620443BismarckThis new German emperor opposed Bismarck, fired him, and ended up being less successful than Bismarck anyway ; German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898)35
144620444Emperor Francis JosephHe lead the Austrian Empire after revolutions of 1848 and relied on military force to subdue all forms of liberalism and nationalism.36
144620445Russo-Japanese WarA conflict that grew out of the rival imperialist ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea.37
144620446Russian Revolution of 1905A historical term describing a wave of political terrorism, strikes, peasant unrests, mutinies, both anti-government and undirected, that swept through vast areas of the Russian Empire.38
144620447The Triple Alliance and The Triple EntenteThis alliance consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. Italy later left, and was replaced with The Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and Bulgaria. Also known as the Central Powers. ; An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI.39
144620448The Balkan Warsoccured on the Balkan peninsula; cost the Ottoman Empire its land; huge war between Romania, Serbia, and Albania40
144620449Max Planck and Albert EinsteinGerman physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918. ; , physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity41
144620450Sigmund FreudAustrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis42
144620451Social DarwinismThe belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle.43
144620452Friedrich von Bernhardi / Houston Stewart ChamberlainGerman, claimed war was a biological necessity;, This man was the writer of The Foundations of the Ninteenth Century and believed in Aryan Superiority.44
144620454Symbolisman artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images45
144620456Impressionism and Post-ImpressionismAn artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel, or impression, of the piece they were drawing; The following movement in followed the same concept until later challenged over the true concept of reality.46
144620458Camille PissaroFather of impressionism, sought to put into his paintings the changing effects of light on nature47
144620460Berthe MerisotFemale Impressionist artist that drew "Young Girl By The Window"48
144620462Pablo Picasso and Cubisma Spanish artist, founder of Cubism; style that focused on geometric shapes and overlapping planes49
144620464Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd WrightUnited States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase 'form follows function' ; Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.50
144620466Vasily Kandinsky and Abstract ExpressionismRussian painter, and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first modern abstract works ;, An artistic movement that focused on expressing emotion and feelings through abstract images and colors, lines and shapes.51
144620468Sergei DiaghilevA modern composer who composed the ballet The Rite of spring ;, Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West52

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