1. Belle Époque

2. La Belle Epoque (1896-1914) Economic Recovery and optimism
North America and Western Europe
Urban industrial society and its tensions
Workers,
Women
Middle East, China, Russia
Constitutional Monarchies (Iran ,1906; Ottoman Empire, 1908)
Anti-foreign and anti-colonial movements (China 1900)
Social revolutions (Russia 1905, 1917)

3. St. Petersburg, Russia
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire

5. Industrial Workers of the World

7. Japan
Luzon, Philippines
India

9. La Belle Epoque (1896-1914) Economic Recovery and optimism
North America and Western Europe
Modern society and its tensions
Workers,
Women
Middle East, China, Russia
Constitutional Monarchies (Iran ,1906; Ottoman Empire, 1908)
Anti-foreign and anti-colonial movements (China 1900)
Social revolutions (Russia 1905, 1917)

10. Iran Ottoman Empire 1906 Constitutional revolution 1876 Constitution
1908 Young Turk Revolution
, Balkan Wars
World War One

11. Decline of the Ottoman Empire

12. Jerusalem, 1899

13. Going to war
Istanbul, 1911
Belgrade 1911

14. Ottoman retreat

15. China Anti foreign sentiment Boxer rebellion (1900) Treaty
Qing weakened and overthrown (1911)

16. Righteous and Harmonious Fists (Boxers)

17. Boxer Rebellion: Allied expedition entering Beijing

18. Russia Industrialization War with Japan (1904-05) 1905 Revolution
War and Revolution

19. Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, (1896)
Russian peasants

20. St. Petersburg Canteen for the poor)

21. Russo-Japanese War,

23. Tsarist troops ready to open fire, Jan 9, 1905