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Back to Iraq: The Search for Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction Bush's New National Security Strategy of the United States Contemporary Terrorist Organizations Eisenhower
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WH 300 E World War I Handout One Topic: World Before the War OUTLINE: I. The World Before the War. A. Introduction. B. The World Economy. C. The Age of Empires. D. The Uncertainties of the Middle Class. E. Nations and Nationalism. F. The New Woman. QUESTIONS: 1. Eric Hobsbawn argues that the old world of the nineteenth century was dying well before the outbreak of World War I. What was the economic and political situation like in Europe and the developed world on the eve of World War I? 2. What role did women now play in the waning decades of the nineteenth century? How did roles of women change at that time? 3. What was the status of workers in the late-nineteenth century? How did worker unrest contribute to the death of liberalism? 4. It took a long time for liberalism to make headway in Europe; however, by the end of the century, liberalism clearly was under attack. How did nationalism and liberalism contribute to the fall of the liberal ideal before the war, at least in Europe? TERMS: William McKinley Rosa Luxemburg Protective Tariffs Madame Currie Cecil Rhodes Beatrice Webb Otto Von Bismarck Alexandra Kollontai Kulterkampf Emma GoldmanQueen Victoria Oscar Wilde Theodore Roosevelt Revolution of 1905 Marxism Sergei Witte Victor Adler Russo-Japanese War Juan Jaures Franco-Prussian War British Labour Party Committee of Union and Progress Home Rule J. P. Morgan J. D. Rockefelle
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