French and American Revolution II Flashcards
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324735224 | American Civil war | civil war in the United States between the North and the South | 0 | |
324735225 | Transformismo | Italian political system of the 19th century that promoted the alliance of conservatives and liberals. Claimed parliamentary deputies should support the status quo of the country, not their own views. | 1 | |
324735226 | Social question | Social issues that fueled political partisanship | 2 | |
324735227 | Socialism | a political theory advocating state ownership of industry | 3 | |
324735228 | Karl Marx | German philosopher who later became the father of socialism. He also wrote the Communist Manifesto. | 4 | |
324735229 | Revisionism | an effort by moderate socialists to update Marxian doctrines to reflect the realities of the time | 5 | |
324735230 | Mass leisure culture | An aspect of the later Industrial Revolution; decreased time at work and offered opportunities for new forms of leisure time, such as vacation trips and team sports. | 6 | |
324735231 | Charles Darwin | English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882) | 7 | |
324735232 | Albert Einstein | German physicist who developed the theory of relativity, which states that time, space, and mass are relative to each other and not fixed. | 8 | |
324735233 | Sigmund Frued | Founder of Psychoanalysis, proposed that dream images are disguised and symbolic expressions of unconscious wishes and urges | 9 | |
324735234 | Monroe Doctrine | december 1823 president issued final message to congress. he said that the us would not tolerate european interference in the westerrn hemisphere. | 10 | |
324735235 | Romanticism | a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization | 11 | |
324735236 | Triple Alliance | Alliance between Germany, Italy, Austria Hungry | 12 | |
324735237 | Triple Entente | An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI. | 13 | |
324735238 | Balkan nationalism | Movements to create independent nations within the Balkan possessions of the Ottoman Empire; provoked a series of crises within the European alliance system by threatening Austria; eventually led to World War I. | 14 |