The Big Five Powers/Eve of War Flashcards
1
Q
Russia
A
• Slowly Modernizing
2
Q
Austria-Hungary
A
- Dual Monarchy
* Ethnic Tensions
3
Q
Germany
A
• New nation
• Unification, 1870-1871
• Industrialization
- second largest industrial power
4
Q
France
A
• Alfred Dreyfus Affairs, 1894-1906
- convicted of passing military secrets to the Germans
- life sentence
- realized he was innocent
- Jewish - Anti-Semitism
5
Q
Great Britain
A
- Trade Union leading strikes
- Suffragettes
- Women activist