| Term | Definition |
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Reform Act |
stabilized British politics |
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Reform act |
1884, expanded British franchise |
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Redistribution act |
redistributed British boroughs |
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Liberal |
established party in britan |
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Fabianists and Labor Unions |
what formed the Labour Party? |
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Land Reform |
what did Gladstone do to appease the Irish? |
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Irish question |
what divided the Liberal party? |
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Irish Home rule bill |
what was made as a result of the Irish problem, but was never enacted b/c of WWI? |
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David Lloyd George |
transformed, broke away from classical liberalism in britan |
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National Insurance act |
what did D. L. George get passed? |
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National Insurance act |
from a conservative view, what caused GB's economy to splat? |
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Paris Commune |
very like utopian socialism in France, but get massacred by rest of France |
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Louis Michel |
woman, paris commune leader |
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monarchist |
major party in National Assembly |
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unpopular |
the Const. or 1875, 3rd French Republic was... |
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Boulanger Affair |
event that discredited Monarchists |
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Dreyfus Affair |
monarchists try to discredit republicans; France on verg of rev (again), politics become emotional, polorized; |
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J'Accuse |
Zola's letter involved w/ Dreyfus affair |
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Romantic Liberals |
the Italian Republic was led by... |
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loss of Ethiopia |
damaged Italian pride, Italia Irredenta |
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Transformisio |
corruption of Italian politics |
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Giolitti |
guy who 'invented' Transformisio |
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Giolitti stops revolt in rome w/ army |
what happened in italy in 1914? |
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Prussian Autocracy |
even though Germany had un. manhd. sfrge., it was really a... |
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Kulturekampf |
Bismarck's attack on Catholics |
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Liberals |
who did Bismarck join to get rid of the Catholics? |
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SPDs |
what did Bismarck attack when he was done w/ the cath.s? |
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not nationalistic |
why did Bismarck view socialists & cath.s as bad? |
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Libya |
what did italy conquer in 1912? |
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ministerial power |
what didn't the Reichstag have? |
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traditionalism (conservative, junkers, nationalism) vs. urban values (SPDs, welfare, gov. provide) |
what was the cultural division of germany? |
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1890 |
when was Bismarck fired? |
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begins unclear direction |
what happens to germany when Bismarck gets fired? |
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hooks up w/ SPDs |
what does William II do to get Urban stability? |
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hooks up w/ Junkers |
what does William also do to get a bigger Military (b/c he's jelous of GB) |
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von Taffe |
austrian dude who just "muddled through" |
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magyarization |
what did the magyars start to unify hungary? |
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alexander II assasinated |
what happened in Russia, 1881? |
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reactionary |
what was the new tzar, alexander III? |
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Nicholas II |
who was tzar after alexander III, in the 1890s? |
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Witte |
who was nicholas II's first 'prime minister'? |
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industrialist |
what was Witte? |
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Russo-Japanese war |
what happened in Russia, 1904? |
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Social Darwinism |
what ideology was the Russo-Japanese war an example of? |
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Manchuia |
what did Russia hope to gain by attacking Japan? |
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humiliating |
what was the Russo-Japanese war like for the Russians? |
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popular revolution (everyone involved) |
what was the Russian Rev of 1905? |
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bloody sunday |
day when Russian Rev of 1905 peeps go to petition to tzar, troops fire, looks suspiciously like tzar involved |
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October Manifesto |
Nicholas II's reaction to the Rev of 1905 |
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Duma |
what did the october manifesto create? |
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Stolypin |
who was the second 'prime minister' to nicholas II? |
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land reform |
what was Stolypin into instead of industrialization? |
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Duma Crisis |
Nicholas didn't like any of the Dumas, too liberal, had them reelected twice |
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Stolypin assasinated |
Russia, 1911 |
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rule alone |
what does Nicholas II decide to do after 1907? |
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autocracy without a ruler |
what does russia become b/c of Nicholas II's disicion after 1907? |
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not united |
what was the problem w/ the Revolutionary movement in russia? |
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mir |
town, peasant based local governments, not national govs! |
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mir |
Social Revolutionaries wanted what to be the new governments of russia? |
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no IR, proletariat |
why was russia the worst place for a marxist rev? |
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divided into 2 parties |
what happened to the marxist party in 1903? |
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marxist social democratic party |
marxist party in russia |
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moscow and pacific (vladivostok) |
the trans-siberian railroad connected --- |
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Trans-Siberian railroad |
what was one of Witte's only successful attempts at industrialization? |