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CHAPTER 13
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1.
What led the way to new industrial
frontiers in the Second Industrial
Revolution?
A.
Steel, chemicals, electricity, and
petroleum
2.
Who sent the first radio waves across
the Atlantic Ocean in 1901?
A.
Guglielmo Marconi
3.
What did the internal combustion engine
give rise to?
A.
Automobiles, airplanes, and improved
ocean liners
4.
According to Karl Marx, which class of
people were oppressed by the middle
class?
A.
The Proletariat
5.
Who were the revisionists?
A.
Marxists who rejected the revolutionary
approach in favor of a more political
approach
6.
What had trade unions done for the
working class by 1914?
A.
They bettered their living and working
conditions
7.
Define proletariat.
A.
The working class
8.
What class of people controlled 30 to 40
percent of the wealth in the early 1900s
but made up only 5 percent of the
population?
A.
The new elite
9.
Who founded the Female Association for
the Care of the Poor and the Sick in
Hamburg, Germany?
A.
Amalie Sieveking
10.
Who founded the Women’s Social and
Political Union?
A.
Emmaline Pankhurst and her daughters
11.
Define the principle of ministerial
responsibility.
A.
The prime minister is responsible to the
popularly elected legislative body and
not to the executive officer
12.
Define Duma
A.
The Russian legislative assembly created
by Nicholas II
13.
Identify the Triple Entente
A.
The alliance between Great Britain,
France, and Russia
14.
Identify the Triple Alliance
A.
The alliance between Germany, AustriaHungary, and Italy
15.
What did Albert Einstein’s special theory
of relativity state?
A.
if all material things disappear out of the
universe, time and space would
disappear with them
16.
Whose discovery of radium changed the
world’s view of the atom?
A.
Marie Curie’s
17.
What did symbolists believe about the
world?
A.
That it was a collection of symbols that
reflected the true reality, which was the
individual mind
18.
According to Sigmund Freud how was
human behavior determined?
A.
It is strongly determined by repressed
experiences
19.
Identify Vincent van Gogh
A.
He was a postimpressionist painter for
whom art was a spiritual experience
20.
Define functionalism
A.
the idea that buildings, like the products
of machines, should be useful and lack
unnecessary ornamentation
21. What
percentage of the European
population belonged to the working class
in the early 1900s?
A.
80%
22. What
was one form of Marxist socialism
eventually called?
A.
Communism
23. What
did Monet, Renoir, Morisot, and van
Gogh have in common?
A.
They were all impressionist or
postimpressionist painters
24. What
A.
was the Second International?
An association of socialist groups
25. Name
three (3) things that compulsory
elementary education eventually created
a demand for?
A.
Teachers, female colleges, and
newspapers
26. Russia
opposed Austria-Hungary over the
1908 annexation of what country?
A.
Bosnia
27. Great
Britain had a two party system by
1871. What were the two parties?
A.
Liberals and conservatives
28. Did
scientific discoveries in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries increase
uncertainty about the universe or lead to
a belief in a universe with certainty and
precision?
A.
It increased uncertainty about the
universe
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