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Chapter 20
Mass Society and Democracy
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History
9th Grade
05/27/2012

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Term
bourgeoisie
Definition
they were the oppresive upper/middle class according to Karl Marx. They
control the govt, and means of production
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Cubism
Definition
Pablo Picasso created it, it uses geometric shapes to recreate reality
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Dreyfus Affair
Definition
Jewish captain in Fr. Army, convicted for treason, later was pardoned
and served in Fr. army
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Duma
Definition
legislative assembly Nicholas II still controlled Russia through the military and
gov’t bureaucracy
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Definition
Led British suffragists. Made women’s social and political union
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Gugliemo Marconi
Definition
Transmitted radio waves in 1901 (inventor)
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Karl Marx
Definition
German pol. philosopher. Published Communist Manifesto
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Marie Curie
Definition
Polish-French physicist and chemist, famous for her research on
radioactivity she discovered the elements of polonium and radium. First female to win
nobel prize
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pogrom
Definition
an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, especially to the Jews in
Russia in the 1800’
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proletariat
Definition
oppressed workers/working class people according to Karl Marx.

believed they would rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie
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Sigmund Freud
Definition
Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis
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Social Darwinism
Definition
belief that social progress comes from the struggle for survival:
“survival of the fittest
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theory of relativity
Definition
created by einstein in 1905. It states that space and time are not
absolute but are relative to the observer
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Triple Alliance
Definition
united the powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in a
defensive alliance against France
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Triple Entente
Definition
an alliance of GB, France, and Russia that stood opposed to the triple
Alliance
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Vincent Van Gogh
Definition
a post impressionist painter who used color and structure to express
a mood. art was a spiritual experience
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Amalie Sievking
Definition
She was a German nurse who founded the female Association for the
care of the poor or sick
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