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Walker AP World History Ch 23 Reading Study Guide #3 P. 539 - 547
1. Who were the “white collar” workers? What values did they adopt? Pg. 539
2. What was the mass leisure culture? Is it still with us today? Pg. 540
3. What team sports and other athletic events became popular in the late 19th Century? Pg. 540
4. What were the main points of Charles Darwin’s writings? Why was this so controversial? Pg. 540
5. How did Albert Einstein add to Western scientific progress? Pg. 541
6. What area of human knowledge was pioneered by Sigmund Freud? Pg. 541
7. What was the basis of romanticism in art and literature? Pg. 541
8. How did artists veer away from the romantic esthetic after about 1850? Pg. 542
9. Where did Western powers use new technologies to further their empires? Pg. 542
10. Briefly describe the territorial expansion of the new United States. Pg. 542, 544
(Thinking Historically: Two Revolutions: Industrial and Atlantic, Pg. 543)
11. Which of the two revolutions mentioned in the article had the most impact and why? (Reading, Pg. 543)
12. Why have some societies found it easier to accept the implications of industrialization than those of the Atlantic
revolutions? (Reading, Pg. 543)
13. Why did the American Civil War accelerate America’s move toward industrialization? Pg. 544
14. What European country experienced massive industrialization & economic growth in the late 1800s? Pg. 544
15. What products did the United States begin to export? Pg. 544
16. How did Canada, Australia and New Zealand gain semi-Independence? Pg. 545
17. How did the rise of a united industrial(izing) Germany upset the European balance of power? Pg. 456
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18. What countries were members of the Triple Alliance? The Triple Entente? Pg. 546
19. Why did Europe enter into an ‘arms race’ after about 1900? Pg. 546
20. How did Balkan Nationalism lead (awkwardly) to the outbreak of World War I? Pg. 546
21. What social problems in Germany and Britain led leaders to believe war would aid national unity? Pg 547
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