7.2 vocab Flashcards
a strong, emotional attachment to one’s ethnic or cultural group
nationalism
idealizing the past as a nobler time in which majestic heroes saved nations in battle
romantic idealism
Jacob and Wilhelm, 2 famous German scholars who made fairytales and folk stories
Grimm Bros
German composer wrote romantic and nationalistic operas
Richard Wagner
French writer, wrote of the struggles of individual in cruel societies
Victor Hugo
German philosopher and nationalist, expressed importance of German language and culture and felt that
German qualities had a duty to lead others
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
promoting a nation to appear to have great powers
National Aggrandizement
having excessive and aggressive beliefs in their nation’s superiority
chauvinistic
racism - idea that some races are better than others
racialism
nationalist movement where Slavic people strove to unite in furtherance of their mutual cultural and political aspirations
Pan-Slavism
racist beliefs and actions against Jews
Antisemitism
violent attacks of many scales that were condoned by government officials, used Jews as scapegoats
Pogrom
crowned himself king of France, but modernized his city, gave suffrage to all men, and lowered bread prices, making him a popular king
Napoleon III
ardent nationalist envisioned all of Italian peninsula united as 1 state
Giuseppe Mazzini
Parliament member y nationalist, became prime-minister of Piedmont-Sardinia
Camilo Cavour
served as Prussian foreign minister y then prime minister, led to unification movement
Otto von Bismarck
conservative political party drew much support from anti-semitic elements of German workers, shared nationalist antisemitic beliefs
Christian Social Party
founder of Austrian Christian Social Party y mayor of Vienna
Karl Lueger
an incident where a Jew named Alfred Dreyfus was used as scapegoat for being accused of passing secrets from French military to Germany
Dreyfus Affair
a dream home of the Jews
Zionism
most important early leader in Zionism, who at 1st accepted German culture, until he learned of Dreyfus Affair
Theodore Herzl