New Imperialism

Question 1

What monarch became the first king of Italy in 1871?

Answer 1

Victor Emmanuel (Helpful Hint: Victor = Victorious right? And victorious usually means first place? …FIRST place FIRST king)

Question 2

What war resulted in the final unification of Germany in 1871?

Answer 2

Franco-Prussian War

Question 3

What nurse became famous for her battlefield medical work?

Answer 3

Florence Nightingale

Question 4

What were most deaths during the Crimean War results from? (Two causes of death)

Answer 4

Disease and Inadequate medical care

Question 5

What two African countries were only remaining free states in 1914?

Answer 5

Liberia and Ethiopia (TRICK: So these two countries were free. Liberia sounds like “library” in Spanish. Library books are FREE. Ethiopia reminds me of the work “utopia” which is a perfect world. A perfect world in Africa would include freedom!)

Question 6

Who was the conservative Italian statesman that was the “architect” of Italian unification?

Answer 6

Cavour

Question 7

What country was expelled from Germany and Italy after unification?

Answer 7

Austria (Poor Austria. Nobody liked him.)

Question 8

What chancellor started the first social welfare system?

Answer 8

Otto Von Bismarck!

Question 9

Local assemblies that were created in Russia under Tsar Alexander II?

Answer 9

Zemstvos

Question 10

Edward Bernstein advocated this political philosophy that purists thought was a “sellout”

Answer 10

Socialist revisionism

Question 11

What country united in 1871 but still faced problems with a very different north and south? (Unequal tax system and debt)

Answer 11

Italy

Question 12

What Jewish leader advocated Zionism, the call for creation of a jewish homeland in Palestine?

Answer 12

Theodore Herzl

Question 13

What pontiff opposed the unification of Italy and later claimed to keep his spiritual authority despite losing his temporal control of Rome?

Answer 13

Pope Pius IX

Question 14

What conflict convinced Russia that they had fallen way behind the western powers both militarily and industrially?

Answer 14

The Crimean War

Question 15

What scandal nearly tore the French Republic apart in the 1890s?

Answer 15

Dreyus Affair (Itty bitty trick: Reread the question! Then think of it in a teenage girl’s mindset. What scandal made the French Republic break up? The Dreyus AFFAIR)

Question 16

Who won the Russo-Japanese war?

Answer 16

Japan (Just think: Russia has fallen way behind, so they keep losing. Russia’s a loser.)

Question 17

What critic of imperialism claimed that Europe was abandoning its principles of human dignity while benefiting little economically?

Answer 17

J.A Hobson

Question 18

Who justified the social darwinism ideology that strong countries conquer weak ones? (survival of the fittest)

Answer 18

Herbert Spencer

Question 19

What country opened up to Europe’s spheres of influence after the Opium wars?

Answer 19

China

Question 20

What romantic Italian leader and his red shirts unified southern part of Italy before giving it to King Victor Emmanuel?

Answer 20

Garibaldi

Question 21

What international meeting created rules for the “Scramble of Africa”?

Answer 21

The Berlin Conference

Question 22

What leader of the “Liberal Empire” in France, established the new model for the nation state in the 2nd half of the 19th century?

Answer 22

Napoleon III.

Question 23

German economic union was a major friction between Prussia and Austria?

Answer 23

Zollverein

Question 24

What did Tsar Alexander II do exactly?

Answer 24

modernized Russia by building railroads, abolished serfdom, and reformed legal code

Question 25

What Belgian king had Congo taken away from him by the Belgian parliament because the people of the Congo had been treated poorly?

Answer 25

Leopald II.

Question 26

What leftest political thinker condemned imperialism as an extension of greedy capitalism?

Answer 26

Karl Marx or VI Lenin

Question 27

At what location did Napoleon promise Sardinia-Piedmont that he would support the Italian war against Austria?

Answer 27

Plombieres

Question 28

What type of suffrage was created by Bismarck in German Confederation?

Answer 28

Universal male suffrage

Question 29

What were the results of the Austro-Prussian war?

Answer 29

Prussia created the North German Confederation (1867) with most German states included.

Question 30

Who reduced the EMS Dispatch and created a diplomatic row with France which led to the Franco Prussian War?

Answer 30

Otto Von Bismarck

Question 31

In the later 19th century new industries such as those producing electric power and chemicals, advanced most rapidly in what country?

Answer 31

Germany

Question 32

What relationship did the Pope in Rome have with the newly established Italy?

Answer 32

He was against the establishment in Italy

Question 33

A turn toward conservative nation-building was a result of which revolutions throughout Europe?

Answer 33

The 1848 Revolutions in France

Question 34

What western European country was the most politically unstable with the revolts in 1830, 1848, fall of the 2nd republic, and war of 1870?

Answer 34

France

Question 35

TRUE OR FALSE: Britain supported reforms to Public Housing.

Answer 35

True

Question 36

Hausmann's rebuilding of Paris led to a greater impact on what social group in Paris in the 1850s and 1860s?

Answer 36

The working class

Question 37

Was Cavour considered an arch conservative or a moderate liberal?

Answer 37

Moderate liberal

Question 38

Tanzania, Southwest Africa and Cameroon were all part of which Europeans powers in the 19th century?

Answer 38

Germany

Question 39

What three European countries accounted for the majority of investments in Asia, Africa, South America and Russia?

Answer 39

Britain, France, and Germany

Question 40

What was an immediate effect on the Austro-Prussian war for Prussia?

Answer 40

Prussia became a "top dog" of the German states

Question 41

France from 1852 to 1871 was what type of government?

Answer 41

Constitutional Monarchy

Question 42

How did Germany and Italy unify their countries?

Answer 42

Germany used outside wars and Zollverein. Italy used internal struggles.

Question 43

What were the ways of ruling in imperialism?

Answer 43

Direct, Indirect, and spheres of influence

Question 44

What was the "Eastern Question"?

Answer 44

Great Powers' struggle over who would take over the Balkan territories from the Ottoman Empire

Question 45

What was the EMS dispatch?

Answer 45

The telegram that made the European leaders act like highschoolers because Prussia wanted to humiliate France.

Question 46

Who wrote the famous quote referencing "blood and iron"

Answer 46

Bismarck

Question 47

What war resulted in Britain taking control of South Africa from Dutch descendants?

Answer 47

Boer War

Question 48

What did the Treaty of Frankfurt do?

Answer 48

Ended the Franco-Prussian War and gave Alsace and Lorraine to Germany

Question 49

When Bismarck wanted to outlaw the Social Democratic party, what German king demanded his resignation in 1890?

Answer 49

Wilhelm II

Question 50

What was the Boxer Rebellion?

Answer 50

Violent 1900 conflict in China when Chinese nationalists wanted to expel westerners from China (and even killed a few diplomats)

Question 51

What social class did Bismarck come from?

Answer 51

Junkers

Question 52

What disappointing failure for King Fredrick William IV to unify Germany under the grossdeutch plan?

Answer 52

Humiliation of Olmutz

Question 53

What are the Magyars?

Answer 53

Dominant ethnic/cultural group in Hungary who demanded the establishment of Dual Monarchy

Question 54

What is the name of the united German parliament?

Answer 54

Reichstag

Question 55

Year that Germany and Italy were unified?

Answer 55

1871

Question 56

Years of the "Age of Mass Politics"?

Answer 56

1871-1914

Question 57

Years of the Realpolitik?

Answer 57

1848-1871