history test 4

Three Emperors’ League

Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary

Era of monopolies in many markets

Gilded Era

Indirect causes of WWI

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

Most famous impressionist painter

Claude Monet

Last large-scale WWI battle where Germans were defeated

Second Battle of the Marne

General who ordered final victory over Germans

Ferdinand Foch

Lost Generation occurred

After World War I

Most famous Lost Generation writer

Ernest Hemingway

Who was part of the Lost Generation

Men ages 18–50

Failed German WWI strategy at start

The Schlieffen Plan

French-British commander at First Battle of the Marne

General Joseph Joffre

Most identifiable warfare in WWI

Trench warfare

Battle with most WWI casualties

Verdun

WWI naval battle where British lost under Churchill

Gallipoli

Triple Entente

Great Britain, France, and Russia

New 20th-century war idea

Militarism

Assassinated archduke that sparked WWI

Francis Ferdinand

Eastern European region causing WWI tension

Balkans

Russian legislative body after 1905 Revolution

Duma

Era breaking up U.S. monopolies at 20th century turn

Progressive Era

Kaiser who followed Bismarck into WWI

Wilhelm II

Triple Alliance

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

Inventor of mass-produced Kodak camera

George Eastman

Areas Jews were forced to live in

Organized Russian massacres of Jews

Pogroms

Jewish nationalist movement to Palestine

Zionism

Modernist poetry writing style

Symbolism

Modernist artist who developed cubism

Pablo Picasso

Most famous post-impressionist artist

Vincent van Gogh

Longest-reigning British monarch of the 1800s

Queen Victoria

Authors of the Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Author of On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

Working class in Marxist theory

Proletariat

Composer of realism; Ride of the Valkyries

Richard Wagner

Famous Crimean War nurse

Florence Nightingale

Unifier of Germany; created Second German Empire

Otto von Bismarck

Lower house of German Parliament elected by men

The Reichstag

Russian tzar who abolished serfdom

Alexander II

What happened to Alexander II

Assassinated by the People's Will

Crowned emperor of France in 1852

Napoleon III

Crimean War battle with British Light Brigade charge

Battle of Balaclava