French revolution(1789) and Yugoslav Wars (1990s)

Question 1

French Revolution is example of what

Answer 1

civic nationalism

Question 2

what was France like before the revolution

Answer 2

• no concept of “the people”
• king claimed he WAS France
• king shard political power with the catholic church
• people had to political power

Question 3

what was France like after the revolution

Answer 3

• concept of “the people” taking hold
• property owning middle class could vote
• working class, women, and poor had little representation
• jews and protestants were no longer treated as second class

Question 4

through what stages did the FR progress

Answer 4

1) moderate (political)
2) radical (economic/ terror/ utopian)
3) thermidor
4) Napoleon

Question 5

first stage of FR

Answer 5

Expansion of Liberal Political Rights

• Declaration of rights of man: all citizens are equal
• Civil constitution of the clergy: subordinated the church to the government. Priests would need to swear allegiance to the state
• Enlargement of suffrage: men with property gained the right to vote

Question 6

second stage of the revolution

Answer 6

New Economic Demands and Terror

• New demands for economic justice
• New threat of war for boarders
• Fear of counterrevolutionaries leads to terror or “purification by violence” (Saturns children)

Question 7

third stage of the revolution

Answer 7

Termidor

• arrest of Robespierre marked the ends of the reign of terror
• stage named after date of the coup

Question 8

fourth stage of the revolution

Answer 8

Napoleonic Era

-under Napoleon, France exported ideas of revolution across Europe via invasions and alliances

Question 9

negative legacies of the FR

Answer 9

• many poor/ urban people felt the revolution was unfulfilled
• tensions between freedom OF religion and freedom FROM religion
• robespierres terror left a bad rep for revolution

Question 10

accomplishments of the FR

Answer 10

• Absolut monarchy was replaced with liberal democracy
• Nobility lost power to middle class
• the ideas of enlightenment thinkers began to be in practice
• FR set example for other countries to have revolution

Question 11

the FR was a ____ of revolutions

Answer 11

series

Question 12

what rose from FR

Answer 12

• nationalism
• liberalism
• economic equality
• rationality
• terrorism

Question 13

why did the old regime collapse in the FR

Answer 13

• enlightenment ideas started to rise
• bad economics( heavy debt/ couldn’t tax nobles/ rising price of bread)
• unstable class hierarchy ( clergy, nobility, everyone else)

Question 14

Before the Yugoslav Wars

Answer 14

• all Yugoslavs, regardless of religion, linguistics, ethnicity, were theoretically equal as the government emphasized “unity and brotherhood”

Question 15

After the Yugoslav wars

Answer 15

• ethnic nationalist politicians stir up resentment among groups
• the country collapses into civil war between clashing ethnicities, languages, etc.
• eventually, half a dozen smaller nations are formed out of what once was Yugoslavia