Chapter 24 (AP World History) Flashcards

9283288738	Abstract painting	a painting that avoids concrete shapes and instead focuses on lines and colors	0
9283292249	Anti-Semitism	A mindset that people of Jewish heritage were inferior to other races	1
9283295480	Anticlericalism	Opposition to church leaders for their alleged influence in political and social affairs	2
9283295481	Cubism	A style of art in which the subject matter is portrayed by geometric forms, especially cubes	3
9283297435	Economic imperialism	One country controls key aspects of another country's economy	4
9283300065	Impressionism	a style of art where painters try to catch visual impressions made by color, light, and shadows	5
9283302196	Modernism	A trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion	6
9283304234	New imperialism	The late-nineteenth-century drive by European countries to create vast political empires abroad.	7
9283307176	Pogroms	Organized acts of persecution or massacre of a specific group of people, particularly the Jews	8
9283312353	Psychoanalysis	A method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders; developed by Sigmund Freud	9
9283314258	Relativity theory	According to relativity theory, neither time nor space is absolute but relative to the observer.	10
9283318236	Samurai	Class of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land.	11
9283320043	Shogun	A general who ruled Japan in the emperor's name	12
9283322661	Social Darwinism	The belief that only the fittest survive in human political and economic struggle.	13
9283331834	Transformism	The theory that societies evolve gradually	14
9283335232	Volkish thought	A combination of folklore, occultism, romanticism, and ethnic nationalism; could be considered the cornerstone of the ideological foundation of the National Socialist German Workers' Party under Adolf Hitler	15
9283347737	Zionism	A policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine.	16