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1
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What monarch became the first king of Italy in 1871?

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

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

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Franco-Prussian War

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What nurse became famous for her battlefield medical work?

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Florence Nightingale

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

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Disease and Inadequate medical care

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

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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!)

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

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Cavour

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What country was expelled from Germany and Italy after unification?

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Austria (Poor Austria. Nobody liked him.)

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What chancellor started the first social welfare system?

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Otto Von Bismarck!

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

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Zemstvos

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

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Socialist revisionism

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11
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What country united in 1871 but still faced problems with a very different north and south? (Unequal tax system and debt)

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Italy

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

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Theodore Herzl

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

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Pope Pius IX

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

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The Crimean War

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

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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)

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Who won the Russo-Japanese war?

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

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

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J.A Hobson

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

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Herbert Spencer

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

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China

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

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Garibaldi

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

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The Berlin Conference

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

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Napoleon III.

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

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Zollverein

24
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What did Tsar Alexander II do exactly?

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

25
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What Belgian king had Congo taken away from him by the Belgian parliament because the people of the Congo had been treated poorly?

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Leopald II.

26
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What leftest political thinker condemned imperialism as an extension of greedy capitalism?

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Karl Marx or VI Lenin

27
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At what location did Napoleon promise Sardinia-Piedmont that he would support the Italian war against Austria?

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Plombieres

28
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What type of suffrage was created by Bismarck in German Confederation?

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Universal male suffrage

29
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What were the results of the Austro-Prussian war?

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

30
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Who reduced the EMS Dispatch and created a diplomatic row with France which led to the Franco Prussian War?

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Otto Von Bismarck

31
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In the later 19th century new industries such as those producing electric power and chemicals, advanced most rapidly in what country?

A

Germany

32
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What relationship did the Pope in Rome have with the newly established Italy?

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He was against the establishment in Italy

33
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A turn toward conservative nation-building was a result of which revolutions throughout Europe?

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The 1848 Revolutions in France

34
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What western European country was the most politically unstable with the revolts in 1830, 1848, fall of the 2nd republic, and war of 1870?

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France

35
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TRUE OR FALSE: Britain supported reforms to Public Housing.

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True

36
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Hausmann’s rebuilding of Paris led to a greater impact on what social group in Paris in the 1850s and 1860s?

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The working class

37
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Was Cavour considered an arch conservative or a moderate liberal?

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Moderate liberal

38
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Tanzania, Southwest Africa and Cameroon were all part of which Europeans powers in the 19th century?

A

Germany

39
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What three European countries accounted for the majority of investments in Asia, Africa, South America and Russia?

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Britain, France, and Germany

40
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What was an immediate effect on the Austro-Prussian war for Prussia?

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Prussia became a “top dog” of the German states

41
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France from 1852 to 1871 was what type of government?

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Constitutional Monarchy

42
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How did Germany and Italy unify their countries?

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

43
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What were the ways of ruling in imperialism?

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Direct, Indirect, and spheres of influence

44
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What was the “Eastern Question”?

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

45
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What was the EMS dispatch?

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

46
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Who wrote the famous quote referencing “blood and iron”

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Bismarck

47
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What war resulted in Britain taking control of South Africa from Dutch descendants?

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Boer War

48
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What did the Treaty of Frankfurt do?

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

49
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When Bismarck wanted to outlaw the Social Democratic party, what German king demanded his resignation in 1890?

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Wilhelm II

50
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What was the Boxer Rebellion?

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

51
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What social class did Bismarck come from?

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Junkers

52
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What disappointing failure for King Fredrick William IV to unify Germany under the grossdeutch plan?

A

Humiliation of Olmutz

53
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What are the Magyars?

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

54
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What is the name of the united German parliament?

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Reichstag

55
Q

Year that Germany and Italy were unified?

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1871

56
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Years of the “Age of Mass Politics”?

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1871-1914

57
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Years of the Realpolitik?

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1848-1871

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