European Instability
The emergence of this country as a power in central Europe upset the balance of power crafted after the fall of Napoleon.
What is Germany?
Edison's light bulb, Bell's telephone, and Marconi's radio all depended on this new form of energy.
What is electricity?
Superior European firepower allowed them to control Asian and African societies using this form of diplomacy, consisting of nothing more than the presence of a powerful navy.
What is gunboat diplomacy?
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine justified America interference in the affairs of these countries.
What is Latin America?
Her discovery of principles of radiation was a major scientific development.
Who is Marie Curie?
France's Dreyfus affair and Russian pogroms were evidence of this hatred, a destructive form of extreme nationalism.
What is anti-Semitism?
This process led to higher quality steel used to build smaller, faster, and lighter engines and machines.
What is the Bessemer process?
Unlike most European imperial powers, this country brought peace and stability while investing in roads, canals, universities, and railroads in India; its rule was nonetheless unpopular.
What is Britain?
The United States acquired Cuba and Guam (and other territories) through this.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This economic philosopher predicted that class warfare between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie would lead to revolution followed by a classless society in which government would wither away.
Who is Karl Marx?
German policies caused Britain to draw closer to this nation, its traditional enemy.
What is France?
Cities in industrialized nations grew tremendously and benefited from running water and effective sewer systems that were sanitation and public health improvements made in response to these events in the 1830's and 1840's.
What were deadly epidemics?
This small European country staked out a huge claim in the Congo River basin of Africa.
What is Belgium?
The United States received a ten mile wide strip of land to build this after supporting a rebellion against Colombia.
What is the Panama Canal?
His theory of relativity revolutionized physics.
Who is Einstein?
When Kaiser Wilhelm II fired Bismarck and dropped Germany's treaty with this country, it entered a treaty with France and gave Germany exactly what Bismarck worked to avoid, hostile powers on its eastern and western borders.
What is Russia?
While education was needed for industrial society, the chief motive for developing public education was this.
What is political, namely developing a better educated voter?
This nation sold opium in China to make up for the trade deficit it had developed, thus ensuring that silver would flow from China to its treasury.
What is Britain?
American control of the Philippines pursued the mixed motives of civilizing the islands and also preventing this nation from conquering the territory.
What is Japan?
His Rite of Spring featured sounds and rhythms that were so different that its first performance caused a near riot.
Who is Stravinsky?
Austria-Hungary's inability to unite the southern Slavs and particularly its trouble with this nationality led all of Europe to the brink of war.
What is Serbia?
These used work stoppages, or strikes, to push for higher wages and better working conditions.
What are trade unions?
The French territories of southeast Asia, including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Annam, and Tonkin, were called this.
What is French Indochina?
Americans who controlled the sugar industry here pushed to depose the queen so they could assert more political control.
What is Hawaii?
Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps built this to ease transportation between Europe and Asia; Great Britain took an immediate interest in it.
What is the Suez Canal?