Wake up

wake (sb) up:  to start to react to a situation after a period in which you have done very little, or to make someone start to react to a situation

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• For 100 years the Western world had been at peace, technology had steadily improved and the benefits of peace and industry seemed to be filtering satisfactorily through society. The Titanic woke them up.

wake (sb) up: reaccionar ante una situación

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