AP World History Chapter 26 Review Flashcards
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| 5992268700 | "Iron and Blood" | Title of a speech by Minister President of Prussia Otto von Bismarck. | 0 | |
| 5992268701 | "Bessemer Converter" | Steel-making process in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort. | 1 | |
| 5992268702 | "Mauve Decade" | Considered as a social and cultural period characterized by prosperity and complacency. | 2 | |
| 5992268703 | Suez Canal | Sea-level canal in Northeast Egypt. | 3 | |
| 5992268704 | Submarine Telegraph Cables | Cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean. | 4 | |
| 5992268705 | Business Cycle | Series of cycles of economic expansion and contraction. | 5 | |
| 5992268706 | Socialism | Political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. | 6 | |
| 5992268707 | Labor Union | Organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests. | 7 | |
| 5992268708 | International Working Men's Association (the First International) | International organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing socialist, communist and anarchist political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle. | 8 | |
| 5992268709 | Universal Male Suffrage | Form of voting rights in which all adult males within a political system are allowed to vote, regardless of income, property, religion, race, or any other qualification. | 9 | |
| 5992268710 | Social Democratic Party of Germany | Social-democratic political party in Germany. | 10 | |
| 5992268711 | Reichstag | Parliament. | 11 | |
| 5992268712 | "Separate Spheres" | Ideology that defines and prescribes separate spheres for women and men. | 12 | |
| 5992268713 | Nationalism | Patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts. | 13 | |
| 5992268714 | Liberalism | Holding of liberal views. | 14 | |
| 5992268715 | "Russify" | Make Russian in character. | 15 | |
| 5992268716 | "Splendid Isolation" | Used to emphasize the isolation of a person or thing. | 16 | |
| 5992268717 | "Tinderbox of Europe" | Box for holding tinder, usually fitted with a flint and steel. | 17 | |
| 5992268718 | Pogroms | Organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe. | 18 | |
| 5992268719 | "Jim Crow Laws" | State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. | 19 | |
| 5992268720 | Charter Oath | Promulgated at the enthronement of Emperor Meiji of Japan. | 20 | |
| 5992268721 | Zaibatsu | Large Japanese business conglomerate. | 21 | |
| 5992268722 | King Wilhelm I | Grandson of Queen Victoria and Kaiser of Germany. | 22 | |
| 5992268723 | Otto von Bismarck | Conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs. | 23 | |
| 5992268724 | Alfred Nobel | Scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author and pacifist. | 24 | |
| 5992268725 | Michael Faraday | English physicist and chemist. | 25 | |
| 5992268726 | Thomas Edison | United States inventor. | 26 | |
| 5992268727 | Karl Marx | Philosopher and economist famous for his ideas about capitalism and communism. | 27 | |
| 5992268728 | Giuseppe Mazzini | Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy and spearheaded the Italian revolutionary movement. | 28 | |
| 5992268729 | Charles Darwin | British naturalist of the nineteenth century. | 29 | |
| 5992268730 | Herbert Spencer | English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era. | 30 | |
| 5992268731 | Tsar Alexander II | Son of Nicholas I. | 31 | |
| 5992268732 | Empress Dowager Cixi | Effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty for 47 years. | 32 | |
| 5992268733 | Yamagata Aritomo | Field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army and twice Prime Minister of Japan. | 33 | |
| 5992268734 | Commodore Matthew C. Perry | United States admiral who led a naval expedition to Japan and signed a treaty in 1854 opening up trade relations between United States and Japan. | 34 | |
| 5992268735 | Mutsuhito | Emperor of Japan who presided over the transformation of feudal Japan into a modern constitutional state. | 35 | |
| 5992268736 | The Victorian Age | Long period of peace, prosperity, "refined sensibilities" and national self-confidence for the United Kingdom. | 36 | |
| 5992268737 | The Meiji Restoration | Chain of events that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. | 37 | |
| 5992268738 | Russo-Japanese War | War fought between Russia and Japan over rival territorial claims. | 38 | |
| 5992268739 | Revolution of 1905 | Uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy. | 39 | |
| 5992268740 | Boxer Rebellion | Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. | 40 | |
| 5992268741 | Treaty of Kanagawa | Agreement between the United States of America and the government of Japan. | 41 | |
| 5992268742 | The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital | Done with Friedrich Engels. | 42 | |
| 5992268743 | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection | Considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. | 43 | |
| 5992268744 | Which countries surpassed Great Britain as the world's most industrial nation? | The United States and Germany. | 44 | |
| 5992268750 | Summarize the basic beliefs of Karl Marx. | Karl Marx's basic beliefs are labor theory of value, class struggle, alienation and communism. | 45 |