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Modern Era
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History
10th Grade
06/02/2011

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Impressionism
Definition

focus on light

capture particular impression of the moment

not rigid, very fluid, free flowing

Monet (water lily)

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Post Impressionism
Definition
more defined, rigid, clear shapes, circular
akward perspective and angles
geometric, puzzle put together in weird order
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Cubism
Definition

abstract

parts of the body come together in mis match way

challenging the idea of the subject

deconstruction

non-traditional, definte shapes

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Abstract Expressionism
Definition

primitive, near complete deconstruction

express emotions - crude, grestque, sexuality

emphasis on human body

no particular agenda - own interpretation

"art for the sake of art" 

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Pop Art
Definition

take known image - reduce it to three colors - more known and relatable to ppl, recognizable

taking the known and making an icon

average people life = art

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Contemporary
Definition

abstract, metaphorical

"return to the masters"

interaction with the art

photo-like

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Pan-Slavism
Definition

desire for united Serbia

Princip calls for own nation (lives in A-H empire)

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Banovinas
Definition

 nines provinces/ states

Modeled after  USSR

Serbian Banovina = central state

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King Alexander I
Definition

created the Banovinas

wanted to end "separatist tendencies"

assassinated in 1934 by extreme revolutionary parties in Croatia and Macedonia

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Orangemen
Definition
Irish Protestants - scattered about causing religious tensions
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Titosim
Definition

communism - reject Stalinist ties

1948 Resolution of the Coninform - reject Warsaw Pact

"self-management"

Non-Alignment Movement 1961

ethinic minority work together = strength

profit sharing amoug gov't and nationalized employees - strong economy (bonus)

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Balfour Declaration
Definition

1917 (WWI) - England declares that Palestines should become a Jewish State - future support

England leaves ME Mandates in 1947 - opportunity

 

Term
Palestinians
Definition
Arabs displaced by creation of Isreal (700,000)
Term
Corpus Separatum
Definition

separate city/place

Jerusalem - UN protected city (1947-8)

significant to many religions

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Wars of Independence
Definition

Isreal declares independence = immediately attacked by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq

- wanted land, refused to recognize state

Isreal wins but loses 1% of pop.

Term
Uslter
Definition
another name for North Ireland used by British Nationalist mad @ Ireland
Term
Sinn Fein
Definition
freedom party, military branch of IRA
Term
Good Friday Agreements
Definition

IRA must reduce the violence

England allow for popular referendum (vote amoung population for English occupation)

Term
Bloody Sunday
Definition

1972 Northern Ireland

UK military attack unarmend Irish Catholic protesters (14 killed)

Term
Special Powers Act
Definition

1967-72

- "military rule" in Northern Ireland

-secret police, jail no trial, curfew for adults

Term
Collapse of Yugoslavia
Definition
  1. Death of Tito
  2. Religious and Ethnic division
  3. Militarism in Serbia
  4. Civil War
  5. Secession of Croatia and Slovenia
  6. NATO bombing

 

Term
Milosevic
Definition
1987-2000, build Serbian military to keep small countires from leaving Yugoslavia, wasnt mature like Gorbachev
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Serbian Massacre
Definition
1992 - Bosnia of Muslims, killed 8,000 men/boys, ethnic cleansing
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Capital
Definition
Nation = Belgrade
Cultural = Sarajevo 1984 - olympic host city, mass grave
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Yom Kippur War
Definition
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