Second Industrial Revolution

Affected France, Germany, Italy, Russia


 * better means of technology


 * electricity, transportation, location, and energy


 * more competition economically ---> conflict


 * resources ---> imperialism


 * markets for manufactured goods increased


 * redistribution of wealth between the classes


 * urbanism, more industrialized


 * aristocracies gained power


 * elite middle and working classes


 * nobility found in the cavalry


 * tied into a nation state


 * protection for the general Unions


 * cosmopolitan working class


 * socialism (common identity/opression)