History 242 Final
What did Emmeline Pankhurst write?
A speech entitled "Why We Are Militant"
How did cubism and expressionism differ significantly from art nouveau?
Cubism and expressionism stressed the unpleasant aspects of industrial society, while art nouveau strove to offset the harshness of industrial society by emphasizing beauty.
"I should not sink to the level of the natives"
David Livingstone- Cambridge Speech of 1857
"My desire is to open a path to this district that civilization, commerce, and Christianity might find their way there"
David Livingstone- Cambridge Speech of 1857
"Those two pioneers of civilization—Christianity and commerce—should ever be inseparable"
David Livingstone- Cambridge Speech of 1857
"natives of Central Africa are very desirous of trading, but their only traffic is at present in slaves, of which the poorer people have an unmitigated horror"
David Livingstone- Cambridge Speech of 1857
Painting with buffalo and people that look to be yelling
Guernica by Pablo Picasso
What was one way in which Max Weber opposed positivism?
He claimed that an intuitive leader might deal with a crisis more ably than a leader who relied on laws or bureaucracies based on rational or scientific approaches.
Why was David Livingstone's speech significant?
He inspired the 19th century British generation to acknowledge the moral center of it's imperialistic policies in Africa.
What aspect of the Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud's theory of the Human psyche alarmed many in Europe?
His claim that humans were motivated by irrational drives toward death and destruction and not just by logical thought.
"Heavy artillery had turned a peaceful little billeting town into a scene of desolation in the course of a day or two."
Ernst Junger- The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front
When and where did Emmeline Pankhurst give her speech?
In New York in 1913
"I heard a monotonous tale of crouching all day in shell holes with no one on either flank and no trenches communicating with the rear, of unceasing attacks, of dead bodies littering the ground, of maddening thirst, of wounded and dying, and of a lot besides. The face of the half-framed by the steel rim of the hlmet was unmoved."
Ernst Junger- The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front
"Nothing was left but supreme and superhuman indifference."
Ernst Junger- The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front
"One could see that the man had been through horror to the limit of despair and there had learned to despise it."
Ernst Junger- The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front
Why is the term modernity often applied to the period around the turn of the twentieth century?
It captures the accelerated pace of life, urbanization, mass politics, and artistic responses to all these changes.
Why did Russia's provisional government lose popular support?
It failed to win any military victories.
How did Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) break with his war communism policy?
It reversed the policy of absolute nationalization and allowed some free-market activity.
What ethnicity was David Livingstone and what did he do?
Scottish missionary and explorer of Africa who opposed slave trade and was a part of the new imperialism movement.
The Russian civil war pitted which two groups against each other?
The pro-Bolshevik "reds" against the "whites", who were made up of an array of forces that wanted to turn back the revolution, including the tsarist military leadership.
"All those with whom I had really been intimate were gone; not one remained to share with me the heights and the depths of my memories"
Vera Brittain- Testament of Youth
"The War was over; a new age was beginning; but the dead were dead and would never return."
Vera Brittain- Testament of Youth
"Towards the men I came to feel an almost adoring gratitude for their simple and natural acceptance of my ministrations. Short of actually going to bed with them, there was hardly an intimate service that I did not perform for one or another"
Vera Brittain- Testament of Youth
The abdication of tsar nicholas II in march 1917 and the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in Russia led to....
the creation of the Provisional government, made up of aristocratic and middle class politicians from the old Duma.
What ethnicity was Emmeline Pankurst?
British political activist
What did David Livingstone write?
Cambridge Speech of 1857
Where was David Livingstone's speech given?
Cambridge University in England
"the African is really helpless against the material gods of the white man, as embodied in the trinity of imperialism, capitalistic-exploitation, and militarism"
Edmund Morel- The Black Man's Burden
In France, anti-semitism became a hotly contested political issue with the 1894 arrest of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer, for espionage, particularly after....
Emile Zola published an article titled "J'accuse" on the front of a popular paris newspaper.
"We are neither superhuman nor are we subhuman. We are just human beings like yourselves."
Emmeline Pankhurst- Why We Are Militant
"You cannot make omelettes without breaking eggs"
Emmeline Pankhurst- Why We Are Militant
"did not get it because they were constitutional and law-abiding"
Emmeline Pankhurst- Why We Are Militant
"that to men women are not human beings like themselves."
Emmeline Pankhurst- Why We Are Militant
"the idea of change, the idea of unsettling the established order of things was repugnant"
Emmeline Pankhurst- Why We Are Militant
"the only justification for violence... is the fact that you have tried all other available means and have failed to secure justice."
Emmeline Pankhurst- Why We Are Militant
"A little girl lay dead in a pool of blood on the threshold of one of the doorways."
Ernst Junger- The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front
"age of rule of brute force"
Mahatma Gandhi- The Essential Writings
"I believe nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence"
Mahatma Gandhi- The Essential Writings
"It may fail because of poverty of response"
Mahatma Gandhi- The Essential Writings
"She [India] is not to copy Europe blindly."
Mahatma Gandhi- The Essential Writings
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
Mahatma Gandhi- The Essential Writings
"The economic war is no better than an armed conflict"
Mahatma Gandhi- The Essential Writings
"The spirit lies dormant in the brute and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law-- to the strength of the spirit"
Mahatma Gandhi- The Essential Writings
"We cannot love one another, if we hate Englishmen"
Mahatma Gandhi- The Essential Writings
"CPSU Central Committee and the leadership of the country failed..."
Mikhail Gorbachev- "On Restructuring the Party's Personnel Policy"
"Efforts to control unearned income were indecisive"
Mikhail Gorbachev- "On Restructuring the Party's Personnel Policy"
"No accomplishments, not even the most impressive, should obscure either contradictions in societal development or our mistakes and failings."
Mikhail Gorbachev- "On Restructuring the Party's Personnel Policy"
"Socialism is a system serving man, working for his benefit, in his social and economic interests, for his spiritual elevation."
Mikhail Gorbachev- "On Restructuring the Party's Personnel Policy"
"Socialism's most powerful creative force—free labour and free thought in a free country"
Mikhail Gorbachev- "On Restructuring the Party's Personnel Policy"
"The main purport of our strategy is to combine the achievements of the scientific and technological revolution with a plan-based economy and set the entire potential of Socialism going again."
Mikhail Gorbachev- "On Restructuring the Party's Personnel Policy"
"The violation of the organic relationship between the measure of work and measure of consumption not only perverts the attitude to work, holding back growth of productivity, but leads to distortion of the principle of social justice."
Mikhail Gorbachev- "On Restructuring the Party's Personnel Policy"
"ideological dedication, labour enthusiasm, and Soviet patriotism."
Mikhail Gorbachev- "On Restructuring the Party's Personnel Policy"
"principle of equality between Communists was often violated" senior members are untouchable"
Mikhail Gorbachev- "On Restructuring the Party's Personnel Policy"
"Fit or unfit"
Primo Levi- Survival in Auschwitz
"Those who by chanced climbed down on one side of the convoy entered the camp; the others went to the gas chamber"
Primo Levi- Survival in Auschwitz
"What happened to the others, to the women, to the children, to the old men, we could establish neither then nor later: the night swallowed them up, purely and simply."
Primo Levi- Survival in Auschwitz
"that the only conclusion to be drawn is that in the face of driving necessity and physical disability many social habits and instincts are reduced to silence."
Primo Levi- Survival in Auschwitz
"while the habits of freedom still led me to look for the time on my wristwatch, my new name ironically appeared instead, a number tattooed in bluish characters under the skin"
Primo Levi- Survival in Auschwitz
What was the purpose of David Livingstone's speech?
Served as a call to action for people of all backgrounds, especially educated, to go do missionary work in Africa. His goal was to open Africa up to commerce and Christianity.
What did Emmeline Pankhurst explain in her speech?
She explains why violence is necessary to bring women's suffrage instead of trusting education by describing constitutional, unsuccessful attempts for female suffrage.
What did Emmeline Pankhurst do?
She founded the Women's Social and Political Union and used her speech to justify the tactics of her organization. Her organization used direct action and militancy to promote the cause of female suffrage. The British Political establishment did not react so she organized hunger strikes and assault on private property.
"the incompatibility of the wish in question with the patient's ego was the motive for the repression; the subject's ethical and other standards were the repressing forces."
Sigmund Freud- Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis
"Humanity is male and man defines woman not in and of herself but relative to him; she is not considered an autonomous being" "He is the Subject, he is the Absolute: she is the Other."
Simone De Beauvoir- The Second Sex
"One of the benefits that oppression guarantees to the oppressors is that humblest among them feels himself superior... the most mediocre of males believes himself a demigod compared with women."
Simone De Beauvoir- The Second Sex
"Something that happened over time can be undone at another time. The Blacks of Haiti, among others, have proved this."
Simone De Beauvoir- The Second Sex
"Yes, as a whole women today are inferior to men... The problem is determining whether or not this state of affairs should continue."
Simone De Beauvoir- The Second Sex
In his last will and testament, Lenin asked his comrades to find a way to remove which communist party leader from power?
Stalin
What was the name given to the growing number of women who challenged accepted views of women's dependence and seclusion in the home at the beginning of the twentieth century?
The New Woman
"I do not intend to arouse sympathetic emotions on our behalf"
Theodor Herzl- The Jewish State
"I think that this external pressure makes itself felt everywhere. In our economically upper classes it causes discomfort, in our middle classes continual and grave anxieties, in our lower classes absolute despair."
Theodor Herzl- The Jewish State
What changes did the Bolshevik government and Lenin institute in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution in the fall of 1917?
They used troops to take over the government, limited elected candidates to members of the communist party, abolished private property and nationalized factories.
What was the primary goal of Sinn Fein, which was founded in 1905?
To obtain complete Irish independence from Great Britain.
"From what I have seen of our Russian friends and Allies during the war, I am convinced there is nothing they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military weakness."
Winston Churchill- "The Sinews of Peace"
"now war can find any nation"
Winston Churchill- "The Sinews of Peace"
Many educated Europeans at the turn of the twentieth century believed in a set of ideas called eugenics, which argued that....
humans could produce "superior" people through selective breeding and that it was their national duty to prevent the disabled and other "inferior" degenerates from reproducing.
The treaty of Brest-Litovsk, signed by Germany and Russia early in 1918....
pulled russia out of the war and changed the balance of WWI.