144620408 | Coney Island and Blackpool | created 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 | |
144620409 | Thomas Edison | American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures. | 1 | |
144620410 | Joseph Swan | developed a primitive electric lightbulb that gave off dim light by passing heat through a small strip of paper | 2 | |
144620411 | Alexander Graham Bell | inventor of the telephone | 3 | |
144620412 | Guglielmo Marconi | sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic in 1901. | 4 | |
144620413 | Henry Ford | American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents. | 5 | |
144620414 | Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | site of first flight on December 17, 1903 | 6 | |
144620415 | Serge White | finance minister to nicholas, made economic development a key goal, secured foreign capitol, encouraged rail road building | 7 | |
144620416 | Karl Marx | founder of modern communism | 8 | |
144620417 | Engels | developed communist theory with Karl Marx. Co-wrote the Communist Manifesto | 9 | |
144620418 | Communist Manifesto | a socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1842) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views | 10 | |
144620419 | bourgeois and proletarian stages of development | The middle class ; and the stages in which the proletariat fight for control over the working class/wealth | 11 | |
144620420 | Second 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 | |
144620421 | The first and second internationals | Communist-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 class | 13 | |
144620422 | SPD | (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 | |
144620423 | public health movement | Sought 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 environment | 15 | |
144620424 | Trades unions | An association of workers in the same trade, formed to help members secure better wages, benefits, and working conditions. | 16 | |
144620425 | V.A. Huber | he was one of the first German housing reformer who beleived that good housing necessary for a stable society and stable family life | 17 | |
144620426 | Octavia Hill | British housing reformer who rehabilitated old dwellings and built new dewllings for 3500 tenants. | 18 | |
144620427 | Amalie Sieveking | a nursing pioneer who founded the Female Association for the Care of the Poor and Sick in Hamburg | 19 | |
144620428 | Florence Nightingale | Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of modern nursing. began professional education of nursing. | 20 | |
144620429 | Clara Barton | Nurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross | 21 | |
144620430 | The pankhursts Woman's Social and Political Union | early 20th century women who founded the Women's Social and Political Union ; The union formed by the pankhursts | 22 | |
144620431 | Maria montessori | Italian physician who gained international fame for her philosophy of teaching, which allowed students to learn in a noncompetitive and relaxed atmosphere. | 23 | |
144620432 | Bertha von Suttner's Lay Down Your Arms | written 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's | 24 | |
144620433 | Porfirio Diaz | a dictator who dominated Mexico, permitted foriegn companies to develop natural resources and had allowed landowners to buy much of the countries land from poor peasants | 25 | |
144620434 | Francesco Madero | Liberal landowner that forced Porfirio Diaz from power | 26 | |
144620435 | Latin America Exports | Included foodstuffs and raw materials. | 27 | |
144620436 | Emiliano Zapata | Mexican revolutionary who led a revolt for agrarian reforms | 28 | |
144620437 | Thirteenth , Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments | The 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 | |
144620438 | Progressive Era | time at the turn of the 20th century in which groups sought to reform America economically, socially, and politically | 30 | |
144620439 | Spanish-American War | In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence | 31 | |
144620440 | Wilfred Laurier | Frist French-Canadian prime minister. Resolved the issue of separate schools for French Canadians | 32 | |
144620441 | British Reform acts of 1867 and 1884 | Greatly expanded the number of male adults who could vote | 33 | |
144620442 | The Reichstag and The Duma | The lower house of the German parliament; , The elected legislative body in Russia took place of czar | 34 | |
144620443 | Bismarck | This 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 | |
144620444 | Emperor Francis Joseph | He lead the Austrian Empire after revolutions of 1848 and relied on military force to subdue all forms of liberalism and nationalism. | 36 | |
144620445 | Russo-Japanese War | A conflict that grew out of the rival imperialist ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea. | 37 | |
144620446 | Russian Revolution of 1905 | A 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 | |
144620447 | The Triple Alliance and The Triple Entente | This 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 | |
144620448 | The Balkan Wars | occured on the Balkan peninsula; cost the Ottoman Empire its land; huge war between Romania, Serbia, and Albania | 40 | |
144620449 | Max Planck and Albert Einstein | German 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 relativity | 41 | |
144620450 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis | 42 | |
144620451 | Social Darwinism | The belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle. | 43 | |
144620452 | Friedrich von Bernhardi / Houston Stewart Chamberlain | German, claimed war was a biological necessity;, This man was the writer of The Foundations of the Ninteenth Century and believed in Aryan Superiority. | 44 | |
144620454 | Symbolism | an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images | 45 | |
144620456 | Impressionism and Post-Impressionism | An 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 | |
144620458 | Camille Pissaro | Father of impressionism, sought to put into his paintings the changing effects of light on nature | 47 | |
144620460 | Berthe Merisot | Female Impressionist artist that drew "Young Girl By The Window" | 48 | |
144620462 | Pablo Picasso and Cubism | a Spanish artist, founder of Cubism; style that focused on geometric shapes and overlapping planes | 49 | |
144620464 | Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright | United 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 | |
144620466 | Vasily Kandinsky and Abstract Expressionism | Russian 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 | |
144620468 | Sergei Diaghilev | A modern composer who composed the ballet The Rite of spring ;, Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West | 52 |
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