Exam 24: Modernity and the Road to War, 1890-1914

What was the name given to the growing number of women who challenged accepted views of women's dependence and seclusion in the home at the beginning of the twentieth century?

According to this map, Great Britain controlled which of the following territories during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? ​ ​

How would you characterize the imperialist policies of European nations and the United States in the early twentieth century? How did those being colonized react to these policies? Provide examples to support your answer. ​

Violent attacks against Jews in Russia were known as

Explain the ways in which technology, bureaucracies, economics, and ideologies shaped the military forces of European nations by the early twentieth century. How were armies changing? In what ways were they more powerful? How might these changes in themselves have increased the possibility of war?

Which of the following marriage reforms did Europeans propose in the late nineteenth century?

How did V. I. Lenin (1870-1924) come to prominence in Russian Marxist circles?

Why are denunciations of Jews and socialists by right-wing and nationalist groups in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century considered a departure from rational debate, and what consequences did such politics have?

Many educated Europeans at the turn of the twentieth century believed in a set of ideas called eugenics, which argued that

In France, anti-Semitism became a hotly contested political issue with the 1894 arrest of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer, for espionage, particularly after

Which of the following is an example of the power of European working classes at the turn of the century?

How did the Italian prime minister Giovanni Giolitti respond to the urban working classes and rural laborers who demanded political change in the years before World War I?

What reforms did the Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin introduce in order to end peasant unrest, and why did they fail to achieve their purpose?

Why did nationalist and anti-Semitic politics flourish in late-nineteenth-century Germany?

How and why did private life become a public affair in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did population pressures affect debates about Europeans' private lives? In what ways did governments intervene in the private lives of European men and women?

Which of the following did politicians and social theorists in the late nineteenth century blame for what they feared was a marked decline in fertility?

According to this map, which of the following nations was part of the Triple Alliance from 1882 through 1915? ​ ​

How did the relationship between science and society evolve in the late nineteenth century?

This map of Africa in 1914 justifies which of the following statements? ​ ​

How did audiences react to the Paris premiere of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring and to premieres of musical works by Arnold Schoenberg, and what caused this reaction? How were this style of dance and Schoenberg's music representative of the changes gripping modern music and dance?