| A | B |
| Day Trippers | People who day or weekend trips to resorts or amusement parks |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Inventor of the wireless |
| Gottlieb Daimler | Inventor of a "light" internal combustion machine that led to the automobile |
| August Bebel | One of the leaders of the German Socialist Democratic Party (SPD); Marxist who worked to improve the conditions of the working class |
| Eduard Berstein | Member of the SPD who challenged Marxist theory; said the lot of the worker was improving and that evolution through democratic means, not revolution, would bring about socialist goals |
| May Day | An international labor day to be marked by strikes and mass labor demonstrations; coordinated by Second International |
| Michael Bakunin | An anarchist who believed that small groups of well-trained fanatical revolutionaries could perpetrate so much violence that the state and all its institutions would disintegrate; this would mark start of an anarchist golden age |
| Solomon Neumann | Urban reformer in Germany; pointed to the filthy living conditions as the primary cause of epidemic disease and urged sanitary reform to solve the problem |
| V.A. Huber | Foremost early German housing reformer; suggested that good housing was a prerequisite for a stable family life |
| Port Sunlight | Model village constructed outside Liverpool by Lord Leverhulme who believed that good housing would ensure a healthy, happy workforce |
| Consuelo Vanderbilt | Daughter of wealthy American industrialist who married Lord Marlborough and acquired a title; acquired 10,000 million dollars |
| Aletta Jacob | Doctor who founded the first birth control clinic in Europe |
| Guides | Female version of the Boy Scouts founded by Agnes Baden-Powell |
| Robert Baden-Powell | Founder of the Boy Scouts |
| Barbara Bodichon | Pioneer in the development of female education who established her own school where girls were trained for economic independence, as well as, domesticity |
| "Family Herald" | One of many cheap specialty magazines published for the masses |
| Rugby Union | Organization for professional rugby players in Britain |
| Georges Boulanger | Popular French military officer; attracted the attention of all who were discontented with Third Republic; seen as savior of France but was discredited when on the eve of the revolution he fled France |
| Kulturkampf | "struggle for civilization"; Bismarck's attack on the Catholic Church which proved counterproductive |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | Successor to Wilhelm I; canned Bismarck; let Reinsurance Treaty lapse |
| Tsar Nicholas II | Weak successor to Alexander III who vowed to maintain the absolute rule of his father |
| Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Developer a lighter than air ship |
| Contagious Diseases Acts | Gave authorities the right to examine prostitutes and confine those with the disease to lock hospitals |
| La BonMarche | A famous Parisian department store |
| Thomas Cook | Secretary of British temporance society who pioneered mass tourism |
| Lord Leverhulme | Soap factory owner who constructed Port Sunlight |
| Josephine Butler | Leader of the shrieking sisters who opposed the Contagious Diseases Acts because men who suffered from veneral disease were not punished |
| Agnes Baden-Powell | Founder of the Guides |
| Cartels | Method of organizing business in order to limit competition; especially common in Germany |
| Jean Jaures | Leader of French socialists who looked to the French revolutionary tradition rather than Marxism to justify revolutionary socialism |