Chapter 25 Flashcards
Which statement below best characterizes Napoleon III’s economic policies?
E) They used government action to stimulate railroad building and investment.
The first state to enact social welfare legislation was
B) Germany.
The first and most important of the Great Reforms in Russia was the
A) abolition of serfdom
The Russian Revolution of 1905 resulted from all of the following causes except
E) the assassination of Alexander III.
Which of the following events occurred first?
napoleon III claimed the throne in France.
The Russian zemstvo was the
C) institution for local government established by the Great Reform.
In the decades before 1848, ____________ pushed for a centralized democratic Italian republic.
A) Mazzini
Karl Lueger, the popular mayor of Vienna, espoused
E) anti-Semitism.
Bismarck’s Kulturkampf refers to
B) his attack on the Catholic church in the German Empire.
Which of the following events prompted liberals in the Prussian parliament to reconcile with Bismarck?
B) The 1866 defeat of Austria and formation of the North German Confederation.
In which episode in the unification of Italy did Guiseppe Garibaldi play a key role?
D) The conquest and annexation of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies.
Louis Napoleon’s election as a president of the Second Republic and then hereditary emperor was a product of all of the following except his
C) antiCatholic beliefs.
The event that directly prompted the Great Reforms in Russia, including the emancipation of the serfs, was
A) defeat in the Crimean War of 1853-1856.
The success of Napoleon III’s system was based on all of the following except
E) a successful foreign policy.
Garibaldi was the leader of the
B) Red Shirts.
Sardinia Piedmont became the leader of the Italian unification as a result of all of the following factores except
C) Austrian suport.
In order to force Austria to give up its territory in Italy, Cavour secured an alliance with
D) France.
All of the following were part of Prussia before 1866 except
A) Schleswig-Holstein.
The long-established customs union among the German states was known as the
B) Zollverein.
The cash crop that revitalized the slave economy of the southern United States in the nineteenth century was
cotton
Bismarck’s constitution for the North German Confederation featured all of the following except
an elected president.
Theodore Herzel was
the founder of the Zionist Jewish national movement.
After the Franco-Prussian War, Prussia
A) imposed a harsh peace on France.
All of the following are consequences of the FrancoPrussian War except
D) a wave of social reform in Germany
The Great Reforms in Russia included all of the following except
A) a national parliament.
Serge Witte was
A) the Minister of Finance who led Russian industrialization in the 1890s.
Witte’s approach to industrialization was inspired by
E) the German economist Friedrich List.
In 1881, __________ was assassinated by a small group of terrorists.
B) Alexander II
Bismarck’s social reforms were motivated primarily by
E) his fear and distrust of socialism.
According to the text, German Social Democrats recovered their losses of the 1907 election and became the largest party in the Reichstag in 1912 in part because
C) they took on a more patriotic tone and broadened their base.
The Dreyfus Affair
C) revived republican distrust of CAtholicism.
Between 1906 and 1914, the Liberal party in Britain was able to accomplish all of the following except
D) resolve the violent problems of Ireland.
In 1912, the ____________ party was the largest party in the Reichstag.
A) German Social Democratic
In 1846, Marx played a key role in establishing the
B) the First International of socialists.
The Second International declared ___________ an annual international one-day strike.
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In his Evolutionary Socialism, ____________ suggested that socialists should reform their doctrines and tactics.
E) Edward Bernstein
