Chapter 14 Flashcards
He instituted the most extensive restructuring of Russian society and administration since Peter the Great and was ultimately assasinated
Alexander II
Cavour believed that only ____ intervention would defeat Austria and unite Italy
French
The Crimean War was rooted in the
long-standing desire of Russia to extend its influence over the Ottoman Empire
The German Empire was proclaimed in 1871 at the Palace of
Versailles
Bismarck embraces the cause of German nationalism as a
strategy to enable Prussian conservatives to outflank Prussian liberals
German unification was completed as a result of the 1870-71
Franco-Prussian War
The National Assembly backed into a ________ form of government against its will
Republican
The two houses of the North German Confederation were the
Bundestrat and Reichstag
After siding with this country against Denmark in 1864, in 1866 Prussia went to war with
Austria
Issued a decree from the sultan, the Hatt-i-Sharif of Gülhane, attempted to
reorganize the empire’s administration and military along European lines
The Paris Commune was dominated by
radicals and socialist Parisians
This was the most important political development in Europe between 1848 and 1914
German Unification
Bismarck is best described as a
conservative
On March 28, 1854, France and Britain declared war on ______ Russia in alliance with the Ottoman Empire
Russia
The state of ______, the most independent state on the Italian peninsula, led the country’s unification effort
Piedmont
A formal treaty in Dec. 1858 confirmed an agreement between Cavour and Napoleon III which would
provoke a war in Italy that would permit them (Italy and France) to defeat Austria
The war of 1870 against _______ had been the French government’s last and most disastrous attempt to shore up its foreign policy and secure domestic popularity
Prussia
In 1871 the North German confederation was a
military monarchy
The Italian peninsula was transformed into a nation-state under a constitutional monarchy by
1860
Austria-Hungary’s formation of a dual monarchy in 1867 meant that
Austria and Hungary became virtually separate states
The period of reform in the Ottoman Empire that lasted from 1839 to 1876 is known as the
Tanzimat
The events of the Crimean War shattered all of the following except
the Ottoman Empire
Victor Emmanuel II was proclaimed king of unified Italy in
1871
One of the principle reasons unified Italy had trouble from the beginning was
incompatibility between northern and southern economies
_________ declared, “Germany is not looking to Prussia’s liberalism but to her power.”
Bismarck
The peace settlement concluding the German annexation of Alsace and Lorraine also compelled the French to
pay an indemnity
The Ausgleich of 1867 refers to the Austrian
dual monarchy
Camilo Cavour played an instrumental role in
the unification of Italy
What German speaking country did Bismarck intend to exclude from united Germany?
Austria
The newly elected French National Assembly of 1871 was dominated by
monarchists
In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was found guilty of
passing secrets to the Germans
Gladstone’s ministry of 1868-74 witnessed the
culmination of classical British liberalism
The Russian student’s group devoted to communal life and peasant uplift was
Land and Freedom
Disraeli’s efforts at social reform focused on
paternalistic legislation
The Paris Commune was dominated by the
petty bourgeosie
The emancipation of serfs in Russia in 1861 was only fully realized in
1906
The correct chronological order of Bismarck’s victories that lead to the unification of Germany were
Denmark, Austria, France
The Hatti-i-Humayun
spelled out more righs of non-muslims in the Ottoman Empire
Garribaldi led the campaign for control of
Sicily and southern Italy
In the 1860’s Napoleon III did all of the following except
form an alliance with Prussia
