Extra Terms for Exam 2

Question 1

Klemens von Metternich & Balance of Power

Answer 1

foreigns prime minister that believed in that strong governments should protest society from wrong instincts, opposed nationalism and liberalism; said that the balance of power meant to an international equilibrium of political and military forces that would discourage aggression by any state or combination of state

Question 2

Karl Max and Bourgeoisie verus proletariat

Answer 2

wrote a book that called the communist manifesto; argued that the middle class interests and those of the industrial working class were opposed to each other. said society was split between the prosperous middle class and the modern working class the proletariat. said the proletariat would conquer the bourgeoisie in a new revolution

Question 3

Alexander II & Empanication of the Serfs

Answer 3

Alexander had the greatest reform of freeing the serfs. the emancipation manifesto freed more than 23 million serfs on private land, followed by another 30 million. the y received about half the land which was owned by pilgrim villages

Question 4

Sergei White

Answer 4

energetic minister of finance, under him the government doubled Russia’s railroad network y the end of the century and printed Russian industry with high protective tariffs

Question 5

October Manifesto & Duma

Answer 5

Granted full civil rights and promised a popularly elected duma (parliament) with real legislative power

Question 6

Janissary Corps

Answer 6

ottoman military that saw a decline in military weakness; boys and other slaves raised in turkey as muslims, trained to serve the ottoman infantry’s elite corps, became corrupt and privileged and did not want any military innovations; execute sultan Selim due to this way of “christian equipment”; would revolt against Mahmud but they were mowed down by the waiting artillery

Question 7

Young turks

Answer 7

seized power in 1908 revolution by overthrowing sultan adbuhlhamid ii; made his brother Mhmed V for implement reforms help prepare the way for the north of modern secular turkey after the defeat and collapse of the ottoman empire in World War I

Question 8

Ismail & Suez Canal

Answer 8

ismail had borrowed large sums and with support the Suez Canal was completed by a French company, shortening the voyage from Europe to asia by thousand of miles

Question 9

Qasim Amin, The Liberation of Women

Answer 9

represented those who found inspiration in the west in the late 19th century; in his book he attuned that superior education for European women and contributed in the islamic world falling far behind the west

Question 10

anti European riots in Alexandria, Egypt
British bombardment of Alexandria
British military presence in Egypt

Answer 10

Foreign financial control evoked a violent nationalistic reaction. Due to diplomatic pressure Ismail to had to abdicate in favor of his son Tefiq, this resulted in a body anti-riot in Alexandria. the British responded by bombard Alexandria and a British expeditionary force occupied all of Egypt. military forces would stay until 1956

Question 11

Sepoys & Great Mutiny

Answer 11

Sepoys especially around Deli revolted against the British called the great mutiny but what the Indians called the great revolt. sepoys’ had many grievances. native troops that manned defensive installations