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AP World History Chapter 21 Flashcards

The Emergence of Mass Society in the Western World

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319558855Start of the Second Revolution1870-19140
319558856New major resourcesSteel, electricity, and petroleum1
319558857Inventions: Thomas Edison/Alexander Grahm Bell/Thomas Fordlight bulb/telephone/assembly line2
319558858Wright BrothersFirst flight using a gasoline engine plane3
319558859Replaced Great Britain as the industrial leaderGermany4
319558860New female jobsClerks, typists, secretaries, file clerks, and salesclerks5
319560482Women suffragists lobbied toEarn the right to vote6
319558861The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx and Fredrich Engels7
319558862International Working Men's AssociationServed as an umbrella organization for working-class interests8
319558863May DayInternational labor day, caused by strikes and mass labor demonstrations9
319558864Mass society leisure activitiesTeam sports, newspapers, tourism, and amusement parks10
319558865Public Health Act of 1875Prohibited the construction of new buildings without running water and an internal drainage system11
319558866The "Women Question"Identifies the debate over the role of women in society12
319558867When women gain the right to own property in Britain/Germany/France1870/1900/190713
319558868Head of Austrian Peace SocietyBertha von Suttner14
319558869First woman to receive a medical degreeMaria Montessori15
319558870New mass newspapersEvening News and Daily Mail16
319558871Thomas CookBritish pioneer of mass tourism, was responsible for organizing temperance gatherings17
319558872Emiliano ZapatoLeader of the revolution for agrarian reform in Mexico between 1910-192018
319558873Porfirio DiazRuled Mexico from 1876-1910 and created a centralized government19
319558874Spanish-American WarIn 1898, Cuba became an American protectorate while Puerto Rico was annexed outright to the United. The United States became a world power with overseas possessions.20
319558875Thirteenth Amendment in 1865Abolished slavery21
319558876Fourteenth/Fifteenth AmendmentExtended citizenship to blacks/guaranteed them the right to vote22
319558877Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food Drug ActThis provided a food regulation of corrupt industrial practices23
319558878The National Insurance Act of 1911This provided benefits for workers in case of sickness and unemployment24
319558879ReichstagThis is the lower house of German Parliament25
319558880Emperor William IIHe made Germany the strongest military and industrial power on the Continent26
319558881Triple Alliance of 1882This included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy27
319558882Triple Entente of 1907This included Britain, France, and Russia28
319558883Treaty of Adrianople in 1829This gave Russia a protectorate over the principalities of Moldavia and Walachia29
319558884First Balkan WarThis is when Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Greece organized a Balkan League and defeated the Turks in 191230
319558885Second Balkan WarThis is when Greece, Serbia, Romania, and the Ottoman Empire attacked and defeated Bulgaria in 191331
319558886Marie and Pierre CurieThese 'two' people discovered that an element called radium gave off rays of radiation32
319558887Max PlanckThis person created the quantum theory33
319558888Albert EinsteinThis person published a paper called The Electro-dynamics of Moving Bodies that contained his special theory of relativity34
319558889Sigmund FreudThis person wrote and published Interpretation of Dreams35
319558890Herbert SpencerThis person was the most popular practitioner of Social Darwinism36
319558891ZionismThis is what the nationalist movement of the Jews is called37
319558892Theodor HerzlThis person wrote The Jewish State38
319558893ModernismThis is what the changes since the Renaissance have been called39
319558894NaturalismThis is who accepted the material world as real and felt that literature should be realistic40
319558895SymbolistsThis is the almost exact opposite of Naturalists, poets include WB Yeats and Rainet Maria Rilke41
319558896ImpressionismThis is when artists rejected studios and museums and went into the countryside to paint nature directly, Camille Pissarro is one of these painters, as well as Berthe Morisot who painted Young Girl by the Window42
319558897Post-ImpressionismThis is a more subjective look at reality, an artist is Vincent van Gogh who painted The Starry Night43

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