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Inquiry into the disintegrative processes within atoms became a central theme in the new physics in part due to the experimental work of

Marie and Pierre Curie on radium and radiation

The experimental work of early 20TH physicists challenged and ultimately invalidated

Newton's rational, mechanical conception of the universe.

Who said, "All this colonial business is a sham, but we need it for the elections."

Otto von Bismarck

The primary antagonists in the Balkans region were

Serbs and Austrians.

The Boer War was fought by the British in

South Africa

Which of the following art movements was NOT prominent in the three decades prior to World War I?

Surrealism

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.

Social Darwinism was

applying the ideas of Darwin to society

In his encyclical De Rerum Novarum (1891), Pope Leo XIII

asserted that much in socialism was Christian in principle.

The Meiji Restoration in Japan

b and d

At its premier, Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, now considered 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 Bismarckian System had the ultimate result of

dividing Europe into two opposing groups of nations making war more likely.

Britain's Fabian Socialists

favored evolution toward a socialist state by democratic means.

Which of the following can be attributed to William Booth?

founding the Salvation Army

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

British rule brought all of the following to India in the late 19TH century EXCEPT

political democracy.

The higher criticism of the Bible championed by the French Catholic scholar Ernst Renan

questioned the historical accuracy of the Bible and denied the divinity of Jesus.

In Freud's theory of psychoanalysis, the process that drives unwanted thoughts into the unconscious is known a

repression

Russia's disastrous defeat in the Russo-Japanese War indirectly led to the

the Revolution of 1905.

Growing tensions in modern German society were exemplified by

the proliferation of ultra-nationalist right-wing political groups with anti-Semitic, racist, and imperialist beliefs.

​In 1905, who published "The Electro-Dynamics of Moving Bodies

Einstein

The best example of naturalistic literature can be found in the novels of

Emile Zola

Which of the following was NOT a pioneer in the field of nursing?

Emmeline Pankhurst

Explaining his use of naturalism in his novels and his depiction of characters, Emile Zola said

"I have simply done on living bodies the work of analysis which surgeons perform on corpses."

Which revolutionary leader helped overthrow the Manchu dynasty of China in 1912?

Chiang Kai-shek.

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

China

Nietzsche worried that

Christianity had enfeebled Western society.

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

Dreyfus affair.

In general, by the late nineteenth century, the worst treatment of the Jews occurred in

Eastern Europe.

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

Germany, Austria, Italy

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

Great Britain, France, Russia

In order to implement the Liberal Party's social reform program, David Lloyd George radically curtailed the power of the

House of Lords.

Camille Pissarro should be associated with

Impressionism

Theodor Herzl, the leader of the Zionist movement

advocated the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.

Using Darwin's terminology, Herbert Spencer argued that

human societies were organism 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

In Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899),Houston Stewart Chamberlain predicted that Germany was destined to

lead the Aryan race to the conquest of Europe

In Freud's theory of psychoanalysis, the superego is the center of our

moral conscience

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.

Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes for her achievements in

physics and chemistry.

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 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

The first professional occupation to be opened up to women was

teaching.

By the late nineteenth century, which of the following groups had emerged as labor's dominant voice in the United States?

the American Federation of Labor.

Modernism in music included all of the following elements EXCEPT

the exclusive use of extremely regular rhythms

Ernst Renan questioned

the historical accuracy of the Bible.

The basis of the Bismarckian System was

the isolation of France through a series of military alliances.

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"

To advance the cause of women's suffrage, the Women's Social and Political 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

were emancipated in most countries, but still faced restrictions