Chapters 22,26 Flashcards
Causes of the Crimean War
Ottoman Empire gives land to Roman Catholic, Russia occupies Modovia and Wallachia
Uniqueness of Crimean War
First w/ war correspondents/photographers
Nations involved in Crimean War
France, Britain, Ottoman, Russia
Florence Nightingale
Founder of modern nursing “Lady with the Lamp”
Effects of the Crimean War
Erased Russian invincibility, discredit Concert of Europe at peacekeeping
Reforms of Ottoman Empire
1839–76-Tanzimat era-reorganization-administrative councils liberalized economy, end tax farming, corruption, Young Turks
Young Turks
Reformist officers in Ottoman Empire-entered WWI and led to Ottoman Empire’s end
Nationalist Leaders of Italy
Giuseppe Mazzini-Heart/soul
Giuseppe Girabaldi-Sword
Count Camillo Cavour
Head/mind of Italian unification, conservative–>moderate liberal (anti-republican) ~Machiavelli
Agreement of 1858 between Cavour and Napoleon III
Pact of Plombieres-France intervene militarily if Austria comes in Italy to start war
Venetia in Italy
Payment for allying with Prussia in Austro-Prussian Wawr
Sardina-Piedmont
Magnet to bring states together
Cavour’s keys to Italian Unification
Industrious, unify nationalists, foreign intervention (France)
Guisseppe Girabaldi
Expedition of the Thousand-Sicily–>Naples-concedes to Piedmont as nationalism>liberalism
Inspired by republicanism
Birth of Italy
1861
Most important political development 1848-1914
German unification
Otto von Bismarck
“Old Blood and Iron” “Iron Chancellor” Kleindeutch, Prussian noble (Junker) Liberal–>conservative, anti-republican, pragmatist/realist
Rival states of German confederation
Austria+Liberals, Prussia
Bismarck’s Pragmatism
“Germany is not looking to Prussia’s liberalism but to her power…The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and majority decisions=that was the mistake of 1848-but by blood and Iron
Reasons for Bismarck’s embrace of German Nationalism
Enable Prussian conservatives to outflank Prussian liberals/Parliament
Causes of Danish WaR OF 1864
Schleswig-Holstein Problem-Alliance between Austria and Prussia
Effects of Seven Weeks’ War
Defeat of Austria in Bohemia-1866. Left out of German affairs
Treaty of Prague-Austria cedes Venetia==>France–>Italy
aka Austro-Prussian War
Houses of North German Confederation gov
1867-Bundesrat-elected through people
Reichstag-elected through universal (notrly) male suffrage
Bad-Ems Telegram
Leopold offered Spanish crown-back Wilhelm’s telegram edited to provoke war w/ France by Bismarck to unify South
French Rulers since 1789
Louis XVIII, Charles X, Louis Philippe, Napoleon III
Paris COmmune
March 28 1871-National Assembly betraying Paris by staying in Versailles-Administer Paris separately from France–>socialist gov. Crushed by national assembly
Franco-Prussian War
Battle of Sedan-Napoleon III captured
Treaty of Frankfurt-1871-German empire-2nd Reich-Prussia wins-got Alsace and Lorraine
Impact of new German empire
Strong stable nation, Austria loses power, France weakened, Britain competes industrially
Dreyfus Affair
Jewish captain accused of being in cohorts with Germany 1898-Emile Zola “J’accuse” article-forged evidence
Army, church, conservatives, antisemitics v. Liberals, radicals, socialists
Leftists united
19th Century Hapsburg empire
Agrarian Dynastic, absolutist
Ausgleich of 1867
Compromise-dual monarchy-Austria-Hungary
Czech Trialism and opposition
“Triple Monarchy” Magyars say no >.<