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Ch 25
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Modernization | the changes that enable a country to compete effectively with the leading countries at a given time. |
| Bloody Sunday | massacre of peaceful protesters at Winters Square in St. Petersburg in 1905 that turned ordinary workers against the tsar and produced a wave of general indignation. |
| Dreyfus affair | Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army was falsely accused and convicted of treason. The Catholic Church sided with the anti-Semites against Dreyfus; because of this, the French government severed all ties between the state and church. |
| Duma | Russian parliament opened in 1906, elected indirectly by universal male suffrage but with absolute veto power from the tsar. |
| Homestead Act | result of the American Civil War that gave western land to settlers, reinforcing the concept of free labor in a market economy. |
| Janissary corps | the sultan’s “slave army.” |
| Kulturkampf | truggle for civilization, Bismarck’s attack on the Catholic church resulting from Pius IX’s declaration of papal infallibility in 1870. |
| October Manifesto | the result of a great general strike in October 1905, it granted full civil rights and promised a popularly elected duma (parliament) with real legislative power. |
| People’s Budget | proposed after the liberal party came to power in England in 1906 and vetoed by the lords, it was designed to increase spending on social welfare issues. |
| Red Shirts | guerrilla army of Guiseppe Girabaldi who invaded Sicily in 1860 in an attempt to liberate it and won the hearts of the Sicilian peasantry. |
| Reichstag | the popularly elected lower house of government of the new German Empire after 1871. |
| Revisionism | an effort by various socialists to update Marxian doctrines to reflect the realities of the time. |
| Revolution of 1905 | result of discontent from Russian factory workers and peasants as well as an emerging nationalist sentiment among the empires minorities. |
| Tanzimat | regulations or orders. |
| Young Turks | fervent patriots who seized power in the revolution of 1908. |
| Zemstvo | a new institution of local government in reformed Russia , whose members were elected by a three-class system of towns, peasant villages, and noble landowners. |
| Zionism | movement toward Jewish political nationhood, started by Theodor Herzl. |
| Zollverein | German customs union founded in 1834 to stimulate trade and increase the revenues of member states. |
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