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Chapter 24-The Crisis of European Culture

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Futurists

Artists and intellectuals of the late 19th and early 20th century who wished to create a new culture free from radical Western civilization; they lionized technology, the masses, violence, and upheaval (1879-1966) United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood A political movement based on rejection of extant political systems; most prominent in less industrialized Western nations (1867-1934) A physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and French citizenship; she was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity; the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes; she was the first woman to serve as professor at the University of Paris (1842-1924) An English economist and one of the most influential economists of his time, being one of the founders of neoclassical economics; his book, Principles of Economics (1890), brings the ideas of supply and demand, of marginal utility and of the costs of production into a coherent whole; it became the dominant economic textbook in England for a long period Those who believe in the importance of gender equality and invalidating the idea of gender hierarchy as a socially
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Margaret Sanger

Anarchism

Marie Curie

Alfred Marshall

Feminists

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constructed concept; they seek to establish equal rights for women in social, legal, political, and economic affairs Anti-Semitism Consortium Hostility toward and discrimination toward the Jewish people A partnership among banks in which interest rates and the movement of capital were regulated by mutual agreement State-organized massacres of Jews Founded on 10 October 1903 by Pankhurst and several colleagues; it was an organization open only to women and focused on direct action to win the vote (1863-1945) A British statesman who was the first Welsh Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he was a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state (1856-1939) A Jewish-Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry; he is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression; he is also famous for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis (1814-1876) A well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism; spoke against Russia's oppression of Poland (1879-1955) A German-born SwissAmerican theoretical physicist; a philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time; he is often

Pogroms Women's Social and Political Union

David Lloyd George

Sigmund Freud

Mikhail Bakunin

Albert Einstein

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regarded as the father of modern physics; he received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) A French positivist sociologist; he formally established the academic discipline and, with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science (1858-1928) An English political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement, which helped women win right to vote A program initiated by Theodor Herzl to establish an independent Jewish state in Palestine (1856-1915) A Scottish socialist and labour leader; he was the first Independent Labour Member of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom; he is regarded as one of the primary founders of the Independent Labour Party as well as the Labour Party of which it later was a part A German socialist school that favored gradual reform through the parliamentary system; led by Edouard Berstein An ersatz scientific theory that promoted the improvement of the human race through selective breeding "Struggle for civilization;" legislation of German Empire against the Catholic Church in the 1870s (1857-1929) A Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a primary

Emmeline Pankhurst

Zionism

James Keir Hardie

Revisionism

Eugenics

Kulturkampf

Thorstein Veblen

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mentor, along with John R. Commons, of the institutional economics movement; he was an impassioned critic of the performance of the American economy, and is most famous for his book The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) A Scottish theoretical physicist and mathematician; his most important achievement was classical electromagnetic theory; his set of equations-Maxwell's equationsdemonstrated that electricity, magnetism and even light are all manifestations of the same phenomenon: the electromagnetic field A political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s; it involved the conviction for treason in November 1894 of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent; sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly having communicated French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris; in 1896, evidence identified a French Army major named Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy as the real culprit; word of the military court's framing of Dreyfus and of an attendant cover-up began to spread largely; the case had to be re-opened and Dreyfus was brought back from Guiana in 1899 to be tried again; Dreyfus was exonerated and reinstated as a major in the French Army in 1906 (1889) An illustration of the polarization of France; strenghtened the hand of the Third French Republic; the General gathered the support of those who opposed the republic; after failing to carry out a coup with the support, the General fled the country; this affair

Dreyfus Affair

Boulanger Affair

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discredited the monarchists Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) An Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism Combinations of of firms in a given indusrty to fix prices and establish product quotas A centre-left political party in the United Kingdom; founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales; Labour first surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s A 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s; The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet's work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari Members of a late 19th century socialist movement in Britain who advocated gradual reform rather than revolution and supported the Labour Party

Cartels

Labour Party

Impressionism

Fabians

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