World History II Chapter 13
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- modernism
- a movement in which writers and artists between 1870 and 1914 rebelled against the traditional literary and artistic styles that had dominated European cultural life since the Renaissance
- Florence Nightingale
- famous British nurse, along with Clara Barton's work with nursing, nursing became a profession of trained middle-class women
- pogrom
- organized persecution or massacre of a minority group, especially Jews
- dictatorship
- a form of government in which a person or small group has absolute power
- feminism
- the movement for women's rights
- proletariat
- the working class
- psychoanalysis
- a method by which a therapist and patient probe deeply into the patient's memory; by making the patient's conscious mind aware of repressed thoughts, healing can take place
- revisionist
- a Marxist who rejected the revolutionary approach, believing instead in evolution by democratic means to achieve the goal of socialism
- Otto von Bismark
- begun the constitution of the new imperial Germany
- Thomas Edison
- created the light bulb
- Clara Barton
- famous nurse during the Civil War; her work helped nursing become a profession
- Duma
- the Russian legislative assembly
- bourgeoisie
- the middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people
- Sigmund Freud
- famous doctor; published his major theories in The Interpretation of Dreams
- Claude Monet
- an important Impressionist, famous for his art
- Karl Marx
- wrote the Communist Manifesto
- Amalie Sieveking
- a nursing pioneer who founded the Female Association for the Care of the Poor and Sick in Hamburg
- ministerial responsibility
- the idea that the prime minister is responsible to the popularly elected executive body and not to the executive officer
- Alexander Graham Bell
- invented the telephone in 1875
- symbolists
- a group of writers that caused a literary revolution
- Nicholas II
- believed that the absolute power of the czars should be preserved
- literacy
- the ability to read
- Guglielmo Marconi
- sent the first radio waves across the Atlantic in 1901
- Albert Einstein
- scientist that published his special theory of relativity
- Marie Curie
- French scientist that discovered that an element called radium gave off energy, or radition that came from the atom itself
- Queen Liliuokalani
- queen of Hawaii; tried to strengthen the monarcy, but was deposed
- Pablo Picasso
- very famous painter
- William II
- emperor of Germany from 1888 to 1918, helped Germany become the strongest military and industrial power in Europe
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903