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- Suffragists
- Those (mostly female) who were active in seeking voting rights for women as an inherent right for all individuals in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- pograms
- an organized, often officially encouraged massacre or persecution of a minority group, especially one conducted against Jews, often used to redirect public anger from the government
- Post-Impressionist Artists
- Cezanne, Van Gogh, Munch, Klimt, Picasso
- Max Planck
- German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947)
- Zionism
- a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine
- Charles Darwin
- English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882), Wrote "The Origin of Species" and "The Descent of Man"
- Realist Artists
- Courbet, Millet, Daumier
- Kaiser Wilhelm II
- the last German Emperor and King of Prussia (German: Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen), ruling both the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918.
- Goethe
- Greatest German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)
- Realist Authors
- Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Zola
- Wordsworth
- a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)
- Albert Einstein
- German-born physicist whose work undermines Newtonian physics, Theory of special relativity postulated that time and space are relative to the viewpoint of the observer and only the speed of light is constant. States that matter and energy are interchangeable and particle of matter contains enormous energy.
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- English feminist-militant in her demands-heckled politicians and held public demonstrations
- Indian Mutiny
- discontent with British administration in India led to numerous mutinies in 1857 and 1858 the revolt was put down after several battles and sieges (notably the siege at Lucknow)
- Romantic Musicians
- Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Chopin, Liszt, Verdi, Stravinsky
- Sigmund Freud
- Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939); Said that human behavior is irrational; behavior is the outcome of conflict between the id (irrational unconscious driven by sexual, aggressive, and pleasure-seeking desires) and ego (rationalizing conscious, what one can do) and superego (ingrained moral values, what one should do).
- Edward Bernstein
- Founder of revisionist socialism, believed that socialists should work for reform within capitalist framework instead of violent revolution
- Proudhon
- French socialist who argued that property is theft (1809-1865)
- Impressionist Artists
- Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas
- anarchism
- opposition to any form of government; the theory that all governments should be abolished
- George Sand
- French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876)
- King Leopold II
- King of Belgium (r. 1865-1909). He was active in encouraging the exploration of Central Africa and became the ruler of the Congo Free State (to 1908).
- cult of domesticity
- the ideal woman was seen as a tender, self-sacrificing caregiver who provided a nest for her children and a peaceful refuge for her husband, social customs that restricted women to caring for the house
- natural selection
- the process by which favorable traits that are heritable propagate throughout a reproductive population: individual organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce than those with unfavorable traits.
- Ernest Rutherford
- British physicist (born in New Zealand) who discovered the atomic nucleus and proposed a nuclear model of the atom (1871-1937)
- Boer War
- Lasting from 1899 to 1902, Dutch colonists and the British competed for control of territory in South Africa.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- A German philosopher who believed that the strength that produces heroes and great artists springs from something beyond reason. He criticized Christianity and democracy for empowering the mediocrity of the sheeplike masses.
- Percy Shelley
- English Romantic Poet (Prometheus Unbound)
- Marie Curie
- French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel Prizes one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
- Dreyfus Affair
- A Jewish captain was falsely accused and convicted of comitting treason, really done by Catholic. Family and leading intellectual individuals and republicans like Zola wanted to reopen the case. Split in two, first army who are antisemetic and Catholic, and other side the civil libertarians and more radical republicans. Result is government severed all ties with church, no longer priests in state schools, catholicism loses a lot of power of indoctrination.
- Motivations for New Imperialism
- Profits, Economics, Social imperialism (solution to overpopulation), Nationalism, Religion and missionaries, Social Darwinism, Balance of Power Politics
- Herbert Spencer
- "Survival of the fittest"; Social Darwinism between societies and cultures
- Romanticism
- a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization "valued imagination and emotion over rationality"
- Cecil Rhodes
- British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; helped colonize the territory now known as Zimbabwe
- Alfred Nobel
- Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896)
- Bessemer
- English inventor who found a way of making steel stronger
- papal infallibility
- belief of the Roman Catholic Church that God protects the Pope from error when he speaks about faith or morality
- Victor Hugo
- Writes Hunchback of Notre Dame, equated freedom in literature with liberty in politics and society. Starts out Conservative, renounces ways, opposite of Wordsworth. Also Lai Miserabs-Miserable Ones, France from Napoleanic Wars to 1848. Romantic author
- Sir Walter Scott
- wrote "Ivanhoe" which idealized the Middle Ages
- Suez Canal
- Ship canal dug across the isthmus of Suez in Egypt, designed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the British conquest of Egypt in 1882. (p. 726)
- New Imperialism
- Historians' term for the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century wave of conquests by European powers, the United States, and Japan, which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories. Highly driven by technological advances.
- Berlin Conference
- A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa
- Louis Pasteur
- French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895)