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Maria Montessori exemplifies the "new woman" of modern times in that


A) she became a leading advocate of the vote for women.
B) she entered Italian politics as a liberal.
C) she created the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom.
D) she obtained a professional degree and applied her expertise to new fields of inquiry like early childhood development.
E) she was the first professional woman who received equal pay for equal work.

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How did Modernism in literature and the arts represent a break with the styles of past? How did Modernism represent the attempt of writers and artists to seek new means of expression to comment upon and reflect their changing world?

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define the following term: -Pablo Picasso and Cubism

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The Meiji Restoration in Japan


A) successfully accomplished the expulsion of all foreigners from the country.
B) created a political system rigidly authoritarian in both form and practice.
C) concentrated on the reestablishment of feudal principles of decentralized government and native Japanese values.
D) sent many Japanese abroad to be educated in the ways of the west and adopted many western reforms in political and military organization.
E) forcefully rejected westernization and looked instead to China as its model.

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define the following term: -The 1905 Revolution and "Bloody Sunday"

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define the following term: -the ego, the id, and the superego

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The Triple Entente before 1914 included which of the following countries?


A) Great Britain, France, Russia.
B) Austria, Germany, the Ottoman Empire.
C) Turkey, Russia, Germany.
D) France, Spain, Great Britain.
E) Great Britain, France, and Italy.

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British rule brought all of the following to India in the late nineteenth century except


A) political democracy.
B) western-style secondary schools.
C) western technology, such as railroads and medical knowledge.
D) great security and order.
E) relatively honest and efficient government.

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define the following term: -volkish thought

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Using Darwin's terminology, Herbert Spencer argued that


A) no progress in human society was now possible and decadence had set in everywhere.
B) no rational justification could be given to "natural selection."
C) peaceful progress was inevitable.
D) evolution could never be reversed.
E) human societies were organisms evolving through time by struggling with their environments.

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The October Manifesto of Nicholas II


A) immediately led to the storming of the Winter Palace.
B) prompted the event known as "Bloody Sunday".
C) the creation a representative assembly known as the Duma.
D) incensed the middle-class moderates.
E) the murder of his advisor Peter Stolypin by the secret police.

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define the following term: -Maria Montessori

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Which of the following Progressive-era laws went into effect during Woodrow Wilson's tenure as president in the United States?


A) graduated federal income tax.
B) Pure Food and Drug Act.
C) Interstate Commerce Act.
D) Meat Inspection Act.
E) Social Security Act.

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define the following term: -anticlericalism

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define the following term: -Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors

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define the following term: -Commodore Matthew Perry

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The Triple Alliance before 1914 included which of the following countries?


A) England, Germany, Italy.
B) Russia, England, France.
C) Italy, Turkey, England.
D) Germany, Austria, Ottoman Empire.
E) Germany, Austria, Italy.

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The "open door" policy was to allow more freedom of trade in so-called spheres of influence in


A) India.
B) China.
C) Japan.
D) the Philippines.
E) the Congo.

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define the following term: -Houston Stewart Chamberlain

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What were the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution of 1905?

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