wes ap euro ch. 10
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295652890 | cartels | firms involved in the making of a product combined to form these, which dominated an entire sector of industry, from raw material to finished product | |
295652891 | tariffs | taxes on imported goods which hurt the consumer, put up in w. europe to encourage the purchase of local grain | |
295652892 | demographic transition | declining birthrate and a more rapidly falling mortality | |
295652893 | Darwin | wrote On the Origins of Spheres, argued for a slow evolutionary process for all creatures, Christians didn't agree with him | |
295652894 | Pasteur | discovered the techniques for destroying germs and developed the vaccine for rabies | |
295652895 | Koch | discovered that different germs cause different diseases and identified the organism that caused tuberculosis | |
295652896 | Mendeleev | author of the periodic law and the periodic table | |
295652897 | Faraday | made discoveries leading to the creation of the electric generator | |
295652898 | Comte | develops positivism with three phases: theological (gods animate nature), metaphysical (Christianity, more abstract forms of God), and positive (science). All crowned by sociology | |
295652899 | Hegel | has trouble understanding discrepancy between science and faith, between ideals and real world. Thesis, antithesis, and synthesis | |
295652900 | Marx | writes the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, sees the dialect as material in the economy, class conflict causes progression, proletariat will take over and make a classless stateless society | |
295652901 | Engels | wrote the Communist Manifesto with Marx | |
295652902 | Marxism | deeply affected modern thought and shaped gov policies, class conflict causes progression, proletariat will take over and make a classless stateless society | |
295652903 | Social Darwinism | people apply biological ideas to non-science things, survival of the fittest | |
295652904 | Huxley | leading proponent of Darwin's theories | |
295652905 | Spencer | writes Synthetic Philosophy, believed that the marketplace was the true test of the fittest | |
298616637 | Belle Epoque | (1880s-1914) people became increasingly hopeful for progress, people buy more, emphasis on sports and entertainment | |
298616638 | Impressionism | focused on the uses of light and color. Artists: Seurat, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Cassatt | |
298616639 | Womens movement | critical of liberalism, 3 groups | |
298616640 | middle class women | focuses on charity (want lower classes to look like them) | |
298616641 | radical women | want social and political equality | |
298616642 | working class women | want better working conditions | |
298616643 | 1st and 2nd International | group of labor leaders led by Marx, socialist political parties became popular | |
298616644 | Anarchism | reject the state and see the gov as the enemy, very violent | |
299565575 | Sorel | argued that the gov should force people to use reason, ends justify means, led syndicalist movement: calling workers' organizations to bring down the middle class (bourgeois) | |
299565576 | Bergson | people act because of emotions, not reason | |
299565577 | Nietzsche | humans are unreasonable, but supermen can rise above, unfairly grouped with anti-Semitism | |
299565578 | Herzl | leader of Zionism (Jews have their own homeland) | |
299565579 | Dreyfus Affair | Jewish captain in the French army was falsely accused of treason, public (led by Zola) called for a new trial and he was re-convicted, pres pardoned him | |
300764317 | Russo-Japanese War | Russia hadn't kept its promises concerning expansion and Japan led a surprise attack on them and defeated them | |
300764318 | Russian Revolution of 1805 | workers strike in St. Petersburg, gov calls out troops and kills a few people (Bloody Sunday) | |
300764319 | October Manifesto | new constitution formed by Tsar Nicholas II in response to revolutions, gave Russia a prime minister w/ parliament and political parties | |
300764320 | Pankhurst | Leader of the WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union), which fought for women's suffrage in Britain. |