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What creations brought in the modern industrial economy?
transportation and communication infrastructure
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What became the dominant form of business organization?
the corporation
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What transformed business organization in 1890?
managerial revolution
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The Sherman Antitrust Act is the source of what?
all American anti-monopoly laws.
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What was he Standard Oil Group determined to be by the courts?
an "unreasonable" monopoly
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When did modern physics arise?
early 20th century
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What is the old Quantum theory?
a collection of results which predate modern quantum mechanics, but were never complete or self-consistent.
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The "fifth element" was disproved by what?
Michelson-Morley experiment
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What is the Michelson-Morley experiment?
an attempt to detect the motion of earth through the aether
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What does Darwinism promote?
the theory of natural selection.
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Why did Chinese philosophy begin to mix with western concepts?
as steps toward modernization
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When did the Xinhai Revolution begin?
1911
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What is the May Forth Movement?
to completely abolish the old imperial institutions and practices of China
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What did Marxist-Leninst add to Chinese philosophy?
Marxist-Leninist thought
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During what event was Legalism abolished?
the Cultural Revolution
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When was the enlightenment of spiritual philosophy challenged?
in various quarters around the 1900s.
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What were Humanist ethical philosophy's developed from?
earlier secular traditions
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Why did Kari Marx criticize Humanist Philosophy's?
it to be symptomatic of the very dehumanization it was supposed to oppose
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What did Friedrinch Netzsche consider Humanism to be?
a secular version of theism
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Why does Friedrinch Netzsche believe human rights exist?
as a means for the weak to collectively constrain the strong.
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What is Albert Einstein known for?
his theories of special relativity and general relativity
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What did Einstein add to the Brownman Motion?
mathematical treatment
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What did Einstein discover a resolution to?
the paradox of specific heats
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What theory did Einstein have reservations about?
quantum field theory
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What is the federation of Australia?
six separate British self-governing colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed one nation.
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What was the federal Government responsible for?
matters concerning the whole nation.
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When did the colonies collectively become a part of the Commonwealth of Australia?
When the Constitution of Australia came into force
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What were the last days of the Qing dynasty marked by?
civil unrest and foreign invasions.
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What did the Qing dynasty attempt to do n the face of civil unrest?
attempt to reform the government in various
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What happened to The reformers in the Qing dynasty?
either imprisoned or executed outright.
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What caused the revolution against the Qing dynasty?
failures of the Imperial Court to enact such reforming measures of political liberalization and modernization
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When was the Republic of China established?
1912
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Who was Inaugurated in Nanjing as the first provisional president?
Sun Yat-sen
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Who had control of the Beiyang army?
Yuan Shikai
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What did China agree to avoid the undermining of the Republic?
agreed to Army's demand that China be united under a Beijing government.
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Who was sworn in as the second provisional president of the republic of China?
Beijing, Shikai
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What happened to China after the 20th century revolutions?
shifting alliances of China's regional warlords waged war for control of the Beijing government.
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Who ultimately gained control of the Beijing government?
various warlords
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Why was there not a new era of governance in Beijing?
because other warlords did not acknowledge the transitory governments in this period and were a law unto themselves.
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What were the military dominated governments known as?
the Beiyang government
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When did the warlord era end?
around 1927
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When dd the Russo-Japanese war take place?
Four years into the 20th century
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What did the battle of Port Arthur establish?
the Empire of Japan as a world power.
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What were the Russians hoping to find in the pacific ocean?
warm water port
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Why did the Manchurian Campaign fight the Russians.
over Manchuria and Korea.
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How were the Japanese victories over the Russians views around the world?
unexpected
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What is the Edwardian era?
the period spanning the reign of King Edward VII up to the end of the First World War,
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What event split the United Kingdom into two groups?
Second Boer War
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In what year did the Liberals win huge in the general election?
1906
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What led to a reduction in the power of the peers?
Conflict between the two Houses of Parliament over the People's Budget
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Who held the balance of power in the 1910 election?
Labour and Irish Nationalist members.
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What is The Triple Entente?
the name given to the loose alignment between the United Kingdom, France, and Russia after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907.
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When was the Anglo -Russia Entente signed?
1907.
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The Triple Entente served as a counter to what agreement?
Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy,
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What was the origin of the war?
the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the July Crisis of 1914
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Who was murdered in Austria?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Where was the Baghdad Railway Suppose to connect?
Ottoman Empire cities of Konya and Baghdad with a line through modern-day Turkey, Syria and Iraq
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What fundamental cause started the war in 1914?
tensions over territory in the Balkans.
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Who did Austria-Hungary war with over territory?
Serbia and Russia
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Where did the Balkan wars take place?
South-eastern Europe
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Why did Albania fall out with Thessaly, Macedonia and Epirus?
over the division of the spoils
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When did the first World War begin?
1914
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Who led the Allied powers?
British Empire, France, Russia
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Who defeated the Central Powers led by the German Empire Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire??
Japan and the United States
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What were the Allied powers referred to before 1917?
Triple Entente
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How many Empires did the war cause destruction to?
four empires
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Where did most of the fighting in World War I take place?
along the Western Front
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What is the Western Front?
a system of opposing manned trenches and fortifications (separated by a "No man's land") running from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland.
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What prevented a trench warfare stalemate?
On the Eastern Front, the vast eastern plains and limited rail network
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How many soldiers died? in World War I?
More than 9 million
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Where did hostiles appear for the first time during the war?
from the air.
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In what century did the Nationalistic revolutions occur?
mid-19th century's
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How many years after world war I did world war II start?
20 years later.
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What withdrew the political boundaries of West Asia?
partitioning of the Ottoman Empire
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What did the partitioning of the Otto Empire bring about?
the modern Arab world and the Republic of Turkey.
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Who did The League of Nations grant France mandates over?
Syria and Lebanon
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What is the Russian Revolution?
the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union.
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What happened when Nicholas II was removed from power?
the Russian Provisional Government was established.
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What event happened in October of 1917?
a red faction revolution
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What happened during the red faction revolution?
armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg
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When was the armistice signed between Russia and Central powers?
1917
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What did Central powers concede in exchange for peace?
huge portions of the former Russian Empire to Imperial Germany and the Ottoman Empire
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Who did the Bolsheviks make peace with?
the German Empire
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What were Vladimir Lenin's decisions caused by?
his sponsorship by the foreign office of Wilhelm II
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Who did the German sponsorship of Lenin's Petrograd upset?
Western Allies
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Where did Soviets under the rule of the Bolshevik first assume power during the Russian Civil War?
Petrograd (St. Petersburg)
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In the wake of the October resolution, what happened to the Russian Imperial Army?
demobilized
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What was Bolshevik's main military force?
volunteer-based Red Guard
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How did the Red red Army overcome their foes?
by taking hostages and shooting them when necessary in order to force compliance.
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How were former Tsarist Officers utilized?
as "military specialists"
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Who was the principal fighting between?
Bolshevik Red Army and the forces of the White Army.
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In what time period did the most brutal battles occur?
1918 to 1920
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When did the major military operation end?
25 October 1922
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What general was defeated in 1920?
General Pyotr Wrangel
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Where did the last Resistance from the White movement occur?
Far East
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What did the May Fourth movement help do?
rekindle the then-fading cause of republican revolution.
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Sun Yat-Sen became the leader of what military group.
a rival military government in Guangzhou
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What did Sun Yat-Sen hope to get from western democracies?
aid
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Who did Sun Yet-Sen turn in 1930 for help?
the Soviet Union
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How did the Soviets try to befriend the Chinese Revolutionist?
by offering scathing attacks on Western imperialism.
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