Test 1

Here is the information for the first test.

Note: Make sure to relate each answer back to these main points:
 * Social turmoil
 * Competition

Exam guidelines
​On this exam you will be asked to compose a paragraph on 3-4 terms provided in the list below. These paragraphs should include the following:


 * Situate the term/object chronological and geographically


 * Define the term by discussing its main elements (use factual reference and appropriate vocabulary).


 * Explain the relevance of the terms in terms of the narrative presented in class or cause andeffect (consequences of a certain event, for example).

The introductory sentence should state what the object is in as precise and dense a manner as possible while mobilizing as many relevant terms and/or facts as possible (example: Friedrich Nietszsche was a 19th-century German philosopher whose writings challenged conventional liberal thought by emphasizing the innate drive of humans to acquire power instead of their capacity to reason). The next sentences will go on to describe the object in greater detail while always trying to mobilize as many factual references or vocabulary terms as possible to demonstrate your mastery of the course content. Lastly, each paragraph should conclude with an explanation of the term’s/object’s significance to show that you understand how the specific details in the response tie into the broader themes of the class. In sum, each paragraph should have this basic structure:
 * 1) Define and situate (context).
 * 2) Describe and embellish with factual details.
 * 3) Explain significance.

Please note that you can bring a 3x5 index card with notes to exam (index cards only, please, no ripped pieces of paper). Below is the list of key terms which might appear on the exam. Please note that a few have been added to the list that was presented earlier in class.

List of terms

 * Liberalism
 * Social Darwinism
 * Second Industrial Revolution
 * Labour Party
 * Fabians
 * Fashoda Crisis
 * Boer War
 * British Feminism/Women’s Rights Movement
 * Irish Question
 * French Third Republic
 * Syndicalism
 * Dreyfus Affair
 * First Italo-Ethiopian War
 * Transformismo
 * German Empire
 * Wilhelm (William) II
 * Alfred von Tripitz
 * Austro-Hungarian Empire
 * Tsar Nicholas II
 * Russo-Japanese War
 * Russian Revolution of 1905
 * Anti-Semitism
 * Irrationalism
 * Imperialsim

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