Chapter 22: 1848-1871 Flashcards
Baron Houssmann
Helped with the reconstruction of Paris under Napoleon III’s reign
Napoleon III
Conservative leader that used liberal/nationalistic ideals to gain power
French Leader
Changed political & economic’s
Crimean War
A war between Russia, The Ottoman Empire, France and Britain
Poorly planned and poorly fought
Florence Nightingale
British woman who insisted on strict sanitary conditions for the British military which saved many lives and made nursing a profession
“The Charge of the Light Brigade”
England charged Russia to get their cannon back, only 1/2 the english made it
Count Camillo di Cavour
Prime minister under King Victor Emmanuel II
Moderate who favored a constitutional government
Helped expand economics to create the money to raise a large army to make Italy independent
Led the war to get Italy unified
Giuseppe Garibaldi
A south Italian patriot who raised an army of 1,000 volunteers to fight for unification
Zollverein
A German customs union that eliminated tolls for member states to stimulate trade and economic prosperity
Otto von Bismarck
New prime minister of Prussia
very conservative
Unintentionally led Germany to unification
Realpolitik
“Politics of reality”
“Iron and Blood”
A speech given by Bismarck in an attempt to win over the largely Austrian parliament
The Danish (and Prussian) War
Denmark attempted to take away two largely german states and went into war with Austria and Prussia and lost
Austro-Prussian War
A war to get Prussia sole control over the German confederation
Prussia won
Franco-Prussian War
War between France and Prussia egged on by an insulting apology edited by Bismarck the French lost
The Battle of Sedan
a whole troop force as well as Napoleon himself are captured leading to the fall of the second empire
Dual Monarchy
Two separate states retain individual domestic powers while still staying united under one monarchy