Unit 14 Flashcards
Elected President of second French republic after abdication of Louis Philippe; took title of Napoleon III
Louis Napoleon
term to describe France from 1848-1851
Second French Republic
term to describe France from 1851 to 1870 under Napoleon III
Second French Empire
re-built many sections of Paris under Napoleon III
Baron Georges Haussmann
completed with French capital ($) in 1869; connected Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
Suez Canal
A socialist govt that took control of Paris in the aftermath of defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870)
Paris Commune
term to describe France from 1870 to 1940
Third French Republic
controversy in which a Jewish French army officer was falsely accused of selling military secrets to the Germans
Dreyfus Affair
French realist writer who wrote J’Accuse, helping to exonerate Alfred Dreyfus
Emile Zola
war caused by a religious dispute between Catholics and Orthodox Christians over Holy Land; exposed Russia’s military and economic backwardness
Crimean War
term for crumbling Ottoman Empire
Sick Man of Europe
Russian tsar who emancipated Russia’s serfs
Alexander II
Russian Finance Minister that oversaw Russian economic development in 1890s; railroads and tariffs
Sergei Witte
Alexander III’s attempt to repress local customs and languages
Russification
organized attacks on Jewish settlements
pogroms