AP Euro Ch. 14 & 15

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The hardships produced by a free economy in the period of 1871-1914 had what effect?

Nations began to adopt protective tariffs and we start to see a revival of the arguments of Friedrich List.

Pope Leo XIII proclaimed this in Rerum Novarum

Private property is a natural right. And socialism and capitalism are bad.

The radical Socialists of France in the post 1850 period were actually what politically?

Radical Republicans.

In order to weaken the republicanism and socialism in Germany, Bismarck:

Repressed socialism and persuaded workers to join his side.

Elections following the Franco-Prussian War showerd that the french people were with regard to their political preference

Against Republicanism and for Monarchism.

In Austria-Hungary, the most serious problem at the end of the 19th century remained what?

Agitation by the various subject nationalities.

A doctrine promoted by both Spencer and Haeckel which deals with the acknowledgment of ignorance is:

Agnosticism.

The Paris Commune of 1871 was

-A social revolution that was patriotic and republican. -Opposed Germans, Bourgeois, Aristocats, and clergy. -Favored govt controls of prices, wages and working conditions.

By evolution Charles Darwin meant that:

-All species are mutable -That no species is created to remain unchanged once and for all -That all species have developed by successive small changes from other species that went before them.

The Dreyfus Affair was significant for all of the following reasons except that it

-All ties between church and state were severed. -Priests and bishops were no longer paid by the state. -Church property was taken over by the government. -Catholic laymen were to administer each parish.

Beginning in the 18th century, the birth rate in France declined for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

-Contraceptives. -Children expensive. -Smaller families.

The ideas of Freud include all of the following EXCEPT

-Emotional disturbances could be traced to earlier forgotten episodes of patients lives. -The unconscious played a major role in human behavior. -Dreams were important in identifying the unconscious.

By 1914, the Europe of Stream i.e. the most industrialized and developed section of Europe, included all of the following EXCEPT

-Great Britain. -Belgium. -Germany. -France. -Northern Italy. -Western Austrian Empire.

In 1890, Kaiser William II embarked on a "new course" which did NOT include:

-More aggressive foreign affairs. -More conciliatory attitude towards the laboring class. -Dropping anti-socialist laws. -Enlarging the social security legislation.

After 1870, the New Industrial Revolution

-New sources of power were tapped. -The already mechanized industries expanded. -New industries appeared. -Industries spread geographically.

The rapid rise in European population after 1650 was probably due to all of the following EXCEPT

-No civil wars. -Stopping the chronic violence and marauding. -Stopped the insecurity of agriculture and family life.

The new liberalism of David George Lloyd in England and Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson in the US did all of the following EXCEPT

-Reestablished economic competition. -Improved the workers lot. -Government had more control of welfare.

The hub of the global economic and financial system was London, which became all of the following EXCEPT:

-The apex of a financial pyramid. -It was the main center for the exchange of currencies. -The clearing house of the world's debt. -The depository from which all of the world borrowed -The banker's bank and world shipping center. -The headquarters of many international corporations.

In "Reflections on Violence" by Georges Sorel, he says all of the following EXCEPT

-Violence was good. -Believe in the "myth" of a future general strike. -The purpose of thought is to keep people ready for action.

After 1870, the Irish demanded that British authorities do what

...

All of the following are known for their contributions with regard to new knowledge of atomic theory EXCEPT

...

All of the following persons were proponents of "scientific racism" except

...

By the end of the 19th century , the Roman Catholic Church had begun to adapt to the trends of the modern age by doing all of the following EXCEPT

...

Known primarily as an advocate of Zionism

...

The dramatic rise of the population of Europe in the 19th century was accompanied by

...

The limited liability corporation was an attractive development in the 19th century because it did what?

...

By 1914, the world's largest steel producers were what countries:

America, France, Great Britain, Germany.

On the European continent, except for Russia, as Marxist or Social Democratic parties became larger and larger, they generally:

Became less revolutionary.

Georges Seurat's painting, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte is notable for

Being painted without the use of lines.

The progress of representative and democratic institutions changed the framework of European politics in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

DIDN'T end monarchies. It increased freedom of voters, women, etc.

All continents except Africa gained in population in the three centuries following 1650. Which grew the most?

Europe.

Which of the following had a republican form of government in 1900

France

The famous Irishman who while demanding home rule for Ireland was disgraced by having an extra-marital affair:

Gladstone.

Einstein's theories had what effect?

It replaced the Newtonian world with a four-dimensional one. A space-time continuum.

The almost universal acceptance of the gold standard after 1870 had what effect?

It was hard on countries who lacked gold and produced a gradual fall of prices.

What new political party was organized in Britain about 1900 to represent working people?

Labour Party.

The labor unions of Britain, in contrast to the unions on the continent were what:

Less socialist.

Nietzsche argued that

People were more driven by their instincts and not by rational thought.

The Interpretation of Dreams published in 1900, was one of the most important books written by whom

Sigmund Freud

Generally, religion in Europe in the mid to late 19th century was

Some of religion's sacred practices were found in pre-modern societies.

Prime minster Gladstone's solution for the Irish Question, Home Rule, entailed:

Split his Liberal party in order to give Ireland a Parliament of their own.

Among the Marxists who opposed "revisionism" or compromise with governments and capitalists to obtain reforms and continued to demand violent class conflicts were:

Syndicalists.

Social Darwinists believed/advocated what?

That the struggle for existence and survival of the fittest could be applied to human society.

In 1854 the Roman Catholic Church announces this as the dogmatic truth:

The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.

Feminists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries attracted the most attention with

The United States and Britain.

Karl Marx's sharpest struggle in the First International was with Bakunin, who argued that

The state was the cause of all the workers problems and that the states should be abolished.

Fabian socialists argued that:

There is no class conflict. Reasonable measures would bring a socialist state. They believed in an improvement of local government.

Toward the end of the 19th Century, European Jews

They began to move toward emancipation and assimilation.

After 1870, Italian political life was characterized by:

Unstable majorities and by opportunistic maneuvering and manipulation by moderate liberal political leaders.

The working-class movement before 1914 was unable to resolve which of the following contradictions:

Wanted to abolish capitalism and bargain with them.


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