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The Pan-German League advocated

Anti-liberal policies including the development of a global German colonial empire to unite all classes of citizens at home

The October Manifesto of Nicholas II

Led to the creation a representative assembly known as the Duma

According to relativity theory

Neither time nor space is absolute but relative to the observer

Among the notable achievements of the British Liberals under Lloyd George was

Passage of the national insurance act of 1911 providing sickness and unemployment benefits to workers

British rule brought all of the following to India in the late nineteenth except

Political democracy

The Meiji Restoration in Japan

Sent many Japanese abroad to be educated in the ways of the west and adopted many western reforms in political and military organization

The primary antagonists in the Balkans region were

Serbs and Austrians.

Maria Montessori exemplifies the "new woman" of modern times in that

She obtained a professional degree and applied her expertise to new fields of inquiry like early childhood development

The Boer War was fought by the British in

South Africa

The quantum theory of energy developed by Max Planck raised fundamental questions about the

Subatomic realm of the atom and the basic building blocks of the material world

Which of the following art movements was not prominent in the 3 decades prior to World War I

Surrealism

Germany entered the ranks of the imperialist powers by establishing African colonies including

The Cameroons

Social Darwinism was

The application of the principle of organic evolution to the social order

Which of the following was not an argument to justify imperialism at the turn of the century?

To lessen the burden of excess European population, especially criminals and other "undesirables"

Poor Leo III responded to modern ideas in all of the following ways except

Embracing Marxist socialism

Theodor Herzi, the leader of the Zionist moment,

Advocated the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine

The pioneer in nursing who founded the Female Association of the Care of the Poor and Sick was

Amalie Sieveking

The artist whose work garnered the highest price at the first Impressionist auction was

Berthe Morisot

At its premier, Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, now considers as a classic example of modernism in music and ballet

Caused a riot by the audience because of its sharp dissonance and blatant sensuality

The open door policy was to allow more freedom of trade in so-called spheres of influence in

China

In 1905, who published the "Electro-Dyamics of Moving Bodies"?

Einstein

The event which exemplified renewed anti-Semitism in France in the late 19th century was the

Dreyfus affair

In Freud's theory of psychoanalysis, the seat of reason is the

Ego

Britain's Fabian Socialists

Favored evolution toward a socialist state by democratic means

The author whose work emphasizes suffering and faith as the means for the human soul to be purified was

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Triple Alliance before 1914 included which of the following countries?

Germany, Austria, Italy

Which of the following Progressive-era laws went into effect during Woodrow Wilson's tenure as president in the United States?

Graduated federal income tax

The triple entente before 1914 included which of the following countries?

Great Britain, France, Russia

Using Darwin's terminology, Herbert Spencer argued that

Human societies were organisms evolving through time by struggling with their environments

The greatest difference between Naturalism and Realism in literature was

In general, naturalism was more pessimistic than realism

To advance the cause of women's suffrage, the Woman's Social and apolitical Union founded by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters

Took a radical, public, and well publicized approach to the movement, employing different media and provocative public actions, like pelting male politicians with eggs

During the 19th century, Jews

We're emancipated in most counties, but still faced restrictions

The basis of the Bismarckian System was

the isolation of France through a series of military alliances.