11-09-05

                          Europe in the Late 19th Century Review

1. What factors contributed to a rapid increase in European population during the late 1800's
and early 1900's?

2. In what European industries was growth most rapid in the late 19th century?

3. How was Britain's position as the leading industrial nation being challenged in the second

half of the 19th century?

4. What population changes were taking place in Europe during the late 19th century?

5. How did the lives of working class people improve during the 19th century?  What serious
problems remained?

6. What developments reflected the increased political power of European workers?

7. Why do historians say that science lay at the bottom of the whole movement of
industrialization?

8. What was John Dalton's Atomic Theory?

9. How did Madam Curie's work give evidence to the proposition that there were particles
smaller than atoms?

10. What was Niels Bohr's model of the atom?

11. How did Einstein's theories challenge the traditional Newtonian model of the universe?

12. According to Darwin, what part did natural selection play in the evolution of a species?

13. Why do some religious leaders oppose the theory of natural selection?

14. What are the social sciences?

15. How did the application of scientific methods and outlook affect the study of history?
the study of human behavior?

16. What approach did Ivan Pavlov take to psychology?

17. What was the chief aim of Sigmund Freud's work?

18. What accounts for the change in artistic expression between 1870-1914?

19. In what ways did the aims and subject matter of the impressionists and post-impressionists
differ from those of earlier painters?

20. How did Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and George Braque differ from the earlier impressionists?

21. What did Picasso mean when he said, "I paint forms as I think them - not as I see them"?

22. How did developments in music of the late nineteenth century differ from those in painting
during the same period?

23. What type of literature was written before the First World War?

24. What type of music was written before the First World War?

25. How did extreme nationalists view individual freedoms and rights?

26. Why were some extreme nationalists attracted by Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas?

27. What was Social Darwinism?  How did Social Darwinism tie in with racist thinking?

28. How was anti-semitism expressed in Europe in the  late 19th century?

29. how did the Dreyfus Affair reveal deep-rooted anti-semitism in France and elsewhere in Europe?

30. What was Zionism?

31. What was Pan-Slavism?  Pan-Germanism?

Imperialism Review

1. What is imperialism?

2. Why did Europeans begin a new period of imperialism in the late 19th century?

3. What does the period of the "Old Imperialism" refer to?

4. What did Rudyard Kipling mean by the expression, "Take up the White Man's Burden"?

5. In what different ways did the United States gain territory in the 1800's?

6. What cultural conflict caused problems for Canada?

7. How did Australia's early history differ from that of other British colonies?

8. What caused conflict between the British and the Irish in Ireland?

9. Compare the American idea of Manifest Destiny with the ideas that encouraged European
imperialism in the late 1800's?