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A ceremony celebrating the sixtieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria.
ch.13 pg.566 |
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Reinforced the belief of Darwinists with emotional and romantic images of whites bringing a better life to their poor, inferior "brown brothers."
ch. 13 pg.567 |
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Great Britain had seized the Cape of Good Hope from the Netherlands in 1806 and gained permanent control of the land in 1815 at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
ch.13 pg.573 |
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| Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1839-1897) |
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A Persian who spent most of his academic career in Eygpt, described how Islamic societies felt threatened writers who sought to synthesize Islamic and Western cultures.
ch.13 pg.574 |
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The Algerian leader who struggled against the French occupation of his country for a quarter of a century.
ch.13 pg.575 |
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| Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) |
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Appalled by the lack of even rudimentary hygienic practices, she instituted modern nursing techniques that drasticlly reduced the death rate and marked the beginning of the Red Cross.
ch.13 pg.576 |
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| U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean to 1934 |
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The United States secured firm control of the Caribbean region during the early twentieth century.
ch.13 pg.587 |
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Oposed European expansion into the Western Hemisphere.
ch.13 pg.587 |
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Whereby Latin American governments were pressured to support U.S. businessmen accordingly made extnsive investments in Latin American petroleum, copper, coffee, fruit, rubber, tin, sugar, and other products.
ch.13 pg.587 |
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In 1906 Great Btitain launched a new, superior class of battleships,Germany folloed suit.
cp.13 pg.589 |
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| Kaiser Willian II (reigned 1888-1918) |
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Dismissed Bismarck, changed the direction of Germany's forgien policy, and allowed the Reinsurance Treaty to lapse.
ch.13 pg.590 |
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| Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, have just left the Sarajevo City Hall and taken seats in the rear of a car minutes before their assassination. While on their way to visit a hospital, they were both shot by a young Bosnian who had veen stirred to fever pitch by Serbian propaganda. |
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| Ferdinand Foch(1851-1929) |
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The French general who Coordinated their operations.
ch.13 pg.600 |
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Where the loser (the French) had participated and w.ploited the division among the vistors, the Allies decided that they would meet tfirst without the germans present.
ch.13 pg.601 |
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| The Economic Sonsequences of the Peace (1919) |
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shaped puvlic opinion in the United States and Great Britain, asserted that the Verasilles Treaty was ruinous, immoral, and unworkable.
ch.13 pg.603 |
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which beg=an in the United States in 1929, soon spread around the world, creating a crisis for all and an opportune climate for the rise of totalitatian dictators in the 1930s.
ch.13 pg.608 |
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