Modernism
This time period before World War One (1880s-1914) is known as a period of high modernism. Modernism is an artistic and architectural movement driven by an embrace of the new. Embrace of experimentation. (experimental art and paintings)
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means before the guard or ahead of the guard; it means to be ahead of whatever the latest trend is in society. Ahead of the times. Defining what is new in fashion or art. The 1880s-1914 is the period of Avant-guard artists, doing things that a
Cartels
Cartels were a new idea of the 2nd Industrial Revolution. A cartel is when a few really big companies in the same industry agree to work together to set prices. This can apply to labor prices. This includes agreeing as companies to get together and keep d
Second Industrial Revolution
The Second industrial revolution (1880s-1910s) differed from the first industrial revolution in that the first was focused on coal and making cotton, clothes/textiles, while the second focused more on steel, chemicals, petroleum, consumer goods. Another d
Suffragettes
The suffragettes are women fighting for women suffrage. A lot of them were very extreme in their politics; but they are not going to get in in most of europe until after WWI
revolutionary socialists vs. revisionists
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anarchists
Anarchists were those who believed that any kind of central government is going to be oppressive. They believed in using violence and terror to overthrow the state and capitalism. Anarchists were most popular in: Russia (where anarchists actually assassin
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Dreyfus affair
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zionism
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Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine
suez canal
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scramble for Africa
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Boer wars
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British East India Company
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sepoys
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Indian Rebellion/ Mutiny (1857)
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civilizing mission
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social darwinism
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human zoos
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Balkan wars
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central powers
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schlieffen plan
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total war
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home front
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armenian genocide
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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russian revolution
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bolsheviks
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german revolution
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national self-determination
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league of nations
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Treaty of Versailles
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Congress of Vienna
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clemens von metternich
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balance of power
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liberalism
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industrial revolution
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socialism
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communism
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proletariat
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1848 revolutions
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nationalism
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nation-state
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italian-unification
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german unification
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otto von bismark
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franco-prussian war
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austrian empire (aka Austria-hungary)
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Tsarist Russian empire
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Victorian age
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Charles Darwin
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Seurat
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Franz Ferdinand
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