Mass Society and Democracy Chapter 20
20.1 The Growth of Industrial Prosperity
Why was Steel important? Why was electricity important? How did Bell and Edison use electricity? How did electricity transform factories and towns?
Why was oil and gas important? Why could Europeans buy more products? Why department stores? Why the division of economic standards in Europe?
Why a world economy? Benefits? Drawbacks? Why was industrial capitalism ruthless? Moderates wanted what?
According to Marx, what was the history of class struggles? What did Marx predict would happen? What would the revolution produce?
What did the SPD work to do? Why did it fail? 2 divisions of Marxists = which worked? Importance of Trade Unions. Did they work?
The Emergence of Mass Society 20.2 The Emergence of Mass Society
Why were cities growing? What changed health in the cities? Why was this important?
Who was in the Social Elite? How much wealth did they hold? Who formed the Middle Class? What did they Believe in? How much of Europe was in the lowest class? What did Urban workers gain by 1870?
How and Why were women legally inferior? What should women do? How did this change? What government jobs did women fill?
What changed in family life? Problems with the working class? Why the changes?
Why did women want property rights? Good idea? What studies were open to women? Why do they want the right to vote? Was Pankhurst smart in her actions?
Why the need for Public Education? What resulted from Education? Good or bad?
New forms of leisure….why new? 3 changes…
The National State and Democracy 20.3 The National State and Democracy
How did political democracy expand to appeal to the people? Triple Entente…
How did the Conservatives try to adapt government to maintain control? Triple Alliance…
Cause of Alliances…. Both sides. Crisis in the Balkans…..why does this now become a powder keg? Why not war now??
Toward the Modern Consciousness 20.4 Toward the Modern Consciousness
Discovery and/or movements Field Individual(s) Discovery and/or movements Literature Art Architecture Music Science Physics Psychology
Why apply Social Darwinism to humans? What was Herbert Spencer’s view? Why apply SD to nations? Houston Stewart Chamberlain…
Why blame the Jews? Why anti-Semitism in Russia, Austria, and Germany? Why settle in Palestine? U.S?