1. Extreme Nationalism

2. Quick Write
Take a few moments and answer the following questions on a sheet of paper:
- What does the word Nationalism mean?
- Can you think of a time when you felt Nationalism for America?
- Can Nationalism be a bad thing? If yes, then how so?

3. Extreme Nationalism grows through Social Darwinism
During the time of 1870 – 1914 extreme Nationalism grows
Herbert Spencer took Darwin’s ideas of Natural Selection and applied it to human activities
- He believed social progress came from “the survival of the fittest.”
- The strong in society advance while the weak decline.
This notion became know as Social Darwinism
- the radical theory used by Western nations in the late nineteenth century to justify their dominance; it was based on Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, and applied to modern human activities

4. Social Darwinism Social Darwinism Leads to:
- people believing they shouldn’t take care of the less fortunate
- the belief nations were also engaged in a struggle for existence, and only the fittest nations would survive
Provided justification for racism, oppression, and superiority toward and over other people and nations.

5. Rise of Anti- Semitism
Due to Social Darwinism Anti- Semitism, or discrimination against Jews, grew
Dreyfus Affair in France
- In Russia there were organized massacres, or pogroms, of Jews
- led to hundreds of thousands of Jews emigrating to other countries

6. Zionism Some Jews immigrated to Palestine
- It was here that Zionism began to form.
Zionism was an international movement originally for the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine, where ancient Israel was located, and later for the support of modern Israel.

7. Terms you need to know
Racism- a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race Anti- Semitism- discrimination against the Jewish people. Social Darwinism- the radical theory used by Western nations in the late nineteenth century to justify their dominance; it was based on Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, and applied to modern human activities Zionism- an international movement originally for the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine, where ancient Israel was located, and later for the support of modern Israel.