Exam 23: Modern Industry and Mass Politics,1870–1914

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Published in 1903 and 1905,The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion:

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By 1914,the largest overseas buyer of food commodities was:

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Irish home rule was debated for many years in the British Parliament and had support from the Irish Parliamentary Party in the last decades of the nineteenth century,but by the end of the century,a more radical position calling for full independence was revived by the militant political organization called:

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Friedrich Nietzsche believed that human beings must become "supermen" and:

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The painting Self-Portrait,Study for Ermiten,is an example of the _________ school of painting.

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In the late nineteenth century,in the midst of the continued decline of the Ottoman empire,a nationalist movement emerged in Turkey under the guidance of a group calling themselves the "Young Turks," who successfully forced the sultan to establish a constitutional government in 1908.In the following year they deposed the sultan and placed him with his brother:

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The Third Republic in France was shaken in 1894 by the "Dreyfus Affair" that saw the rise of _________ in French society.

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Mass consumption was one of the greatest changes in the second industrial revolution as the traditional buying habits of the consumer both within and outside urban areas were quickly changed and society became much less stratified.

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How were the theories of Darwinism applied to political objectives?

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Which political party became the model Marxist party in the late nineteenth century?

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The revolution of 1905 in Russia was caused by:

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In spite of all legal hindrances,votes for the Social Democratic Party in Germany quadrupled by 1881,the year Bismarck resigned.

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The nineteenth-century political theory of liberalism looked to _________ to confirm its tenets.

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The expression "survival of the fittest" was first used by:

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The second industrial revolution created a strong demand for technical expertise,which meant that university degrees became more important than on-the-job apprenticeships.

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The most transformative event in French history in the second part of the nineteenth century was:

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The artistic movement known as futurism was introduced to Europe by:

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Zionism was based on the hierarchical principles of the Jewish faith and hoped to establish a homeland in which the caste-like system of the ancient twelve tribes could once again organize Jews into a single,organized people.

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Evolutionary theories had existed from the time of the ancient Greeks,but the first modern theory of evolution was developed by:

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Why was Marxism so appealing to both workers and intellectuals across the West?

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