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WHMT - Chapter 13
World History Modern Times - Chapter 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Albert Einstein | German-born scientist and mathematician working in Switzerland who provided a new view of the universe and his special theory of relativity. He emigrated to the U.S. when he felt threatened by Nazis (1879- 1955). (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 419) |
| Alexander Graham Bell | American inventor of the telephone in 1876. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 398) |
| Annually | occurring or happening every year or once a year (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 421) |
| Bourgeoisie | the middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 401) |
| Clara Barton | U.S. nurse whose efforts during the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), combined with those of Florence Nightingale (England), transformed nursing into a profession for women. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 407) |
| Claude Monet | French impressionist painter (1840-1926) who became world renowned. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 422) |
| Compensation | a payment to unemployed or injured workers or their dependents (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 412) |
| Consist | to be formed or composed of something (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 405) |
| Create | to make or found something (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 404) |
| Crucial | important or essential (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 413) |
| Dictatorship | a form of government in which a person or small group has absolute power (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 401) |
| Discrimination | prejudice, usually based on race, religion, class, sex, or age (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 420) |
| Duma | the Russian legislative assembly (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 414) |
| Emerge | to rise from an obscure or inferior position (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 400) |
| Emmeline Pankhurst | Founded the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903 to promote women's rights to full citizenship and to vote. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 407) |
| Feminism | the movement for women's rights (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 407) |
| Florence Nightingale | British nurse whose efforts during the Crimean War (1853-1856), combined with those of Clara Barton (U.S.), transformed nursing into a profession for women. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 407) |
| Generator | a machine that changes mechanical energy into electrical energy (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 398) |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Italian engineer who discovered radio waves and designed the first radio (1901). (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 398) |
| Karl Marx | Founder of Communism; author of The Communist Manifesto in 1848 which blamed capitalism for poor working conditions and a class struggle. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 400) |
| Literacy | the ability to read (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 409) |
| Marie Curie | French scientist who discovered that radium emitted energy or radiation (1867-1934). (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 419) |
| Ministerial Responsibility | the idea that the prime minister is responsible to the popularly elected executive body and not to the executive officer (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 413) |
| Modernism | a movement in which writers and artists between 1870 and 1914 rebelled against the traditional literary and artistic styles that had dominated European cultural life since the Renaissance (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 421) |
| Nicholas II | The last czar of Russia (1868-1918) who tried to repress people's uprising which led to a revolution; he and his family were executed by the revolutionaries (the Bolsheviks). (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 414) |
| Pablo Picasso | Spanish artist and sculptor who lived in France and became very influential to modern art. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 422) |
| Pogrom | organized persecution or massacre of a minority group, especially Jews (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 421) |
| Proletariat | the working class (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 401) |
| Psychoanalysis | a method by which a therapist and patient probe deeply into the patient's memory; by making the patient's conscious mind aware of repressed thoughts, healing can take place (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 419) |
| Queen Liliuokalani | Hawaiian Queen who tried to strengthen her monarchy by keeping the islands under her peoples' control but the U.S. government sent in military forces, deposed the queen, and annexed Hawaii in 1898. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 415) |
| Reinforce | to strengthen by additional assistance, material, or support; make stronger (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 423) |
| Revisionist | a Marxist who rejected the revolutionary approach, believing instead in evolution by democratic means to achieve the goal of socialism (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 401) |
| Sigmund Freud | Austrian psychiatrist who devised psychoanalysis (1856-1939) (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 419) |
| Thomas Edison | American inventor of the light bulb, the phonograph, and other devices using electricity (1847-1931) (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 398) |
| Transform | to change in composition or structure (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 398) |
| William II | German emperor from 1888-1918 when Germany had become the strongest military and industrial power in Europe; he was forced to abdicate at the end of WWI. (Spielvogel WHMT 2e p. 413) |
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