Chapter 24 Review: Important Events
| 1894–1895 | Japan defeats China in Sino-Japanese War |
| 1894–1899 | Dreyfus Affair exposes anti-Semitism in France |
| 1899–1902 | South African War fought between Dutch descendants and British in South African states |
| 1900 | Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams |
| 1901 | Irish National Theater is established by Maud Gonne and William Butler Yeats; death of Queen Victoria |
| 1903 | Emmeline Pankhurst founds Women’s Social and Political Union |
| 1904–1905 | Japan defeats Russia in Russo-Japanese War |
| 1905 | Nicholas II establishes the Duma after revolution erupts in Russia; Albert Einstein publishes his special theory of relativity |
| 1906 | Women receive vote in Finland |
| 1907 | Pablo Picasso launches cubist painting with Les Demoiselles d’Avignon |
| 1908 | Young Turks revolt against rule by sultan in Ottoman Empire |
| 1911–1912 | Revolutionaries overthrow Qing dynasty and declare China a republic |
| 1914 | Assassination of Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife by Serbian nationalist precipitates World War I |
Consider three events: Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), Emmeline Pankhurst founds Women’s Social and Political Union (1903), and Pablo Picasso launches cubist painting with Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907). How did these events help to bring about modernity?