Vocab Flashcards
Crimean War?
A war fought in East Europe on the Black Sea and on Crimea (Ukraine) between Russia and the Allies: Britain, France, Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire.
Nominal Reason: over the control of the holy places in Palestine
Real Reason: Russia wanted to take advantage of the weakening Ottoman Empire
2nd French Republic?
The French Second Republic was the republican government of France between the 1848 Revolution and the 1851 coup by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte which initiated the Second Empire.
Second Empire?
The Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.
Louis Napoleon?
Emperor of the French (1852-1871). A nephew of Napoleon I, he led the Bonapartist opposition to Louis Philippe and became president of the Second Republic (1848). After proclaiming himself emperor (1852), he instituted reforms and rebuilt Paris. His successful imperialist ventures were overshadowed by a failed campaign in Mexico (1861-1867) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), which resulted in his deposition.
Credit Mobilier?
A french bank that funded industrial and infrastructure growth.
Nationalism?
Patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts
King Victor Emmanuel?
Was a member of the House of Savoy and King of Italy (29 July 1900 – 9 May 1946). In addition, he claimed the thrones of Ethiopia and Albania as Emperor of Ethiopia (1936–41) and King of the Albanians (1939–43), which were unrecognised by the great powers. During his long reign (46 years), which began after the assassination of his father Umberto I, the Kingdom of Italy became involved in two World Wars. His reign also encompassed the birth, rise, and fall of Italian Fascism.
Cavour?
A leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification. He was the founder of the original Liberal Party and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, a position he maintained (except for a six-month resignation) throughout the Second Italian War of Independence and Garibaldi’s campaigns to unite Italy. After the declaration of a united Kingdom of Italy, Cavour took office as Italy’s first Prime Minister; he died after only three months in office, and thus did not live to see Venetia or Rome as part of the new Italian nation
Jules Ferry?
Established secular education and reforms
Emancipation Act?
A rapid, social change in modernization
Falloux Laws?
Returned control to the church
Syllabus of Errors?
Warning catholics against liberalism, rationalism, socialism, separation of church and state, and religious liberty.
Garibaldi?
Liberated the southern Italy in Sicily. Exemplified the Romantic nationalism of Mazzini.
Plombieres?
Cavour gained a promise from Napoleon III that France would support a Sardinian War with Austria for the creation of a northern Italian kingdom. (Controlled by Sardinia)
Zollverein?
German customs unions 1734.
Biggest source of tension between Prussia & Austria. The excluded Austria and Austria tried unsuccessfully to destroy it.
Bismarck?
Served as a chancellor and was the mastermind behind the government.
Austro-Prussian War?
Prussia, Italy, and some minor German states opposed Austria, Saxony, Hanover, and the states of southern Germany.
Franco-Prussian War?
The war of 1870-71 between France and Prussia culminating in the fall of the French Second Empire and the founding of the German empire
EMS Dispatch?
Bismarck’s way of provoking France in order to further unify Germany and annex Alsace and Lorraine.
Ausgleich?
the agreement (1867) that established the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
Magyar?
Hungarians that were nullified as a primary opposition group.
Real Politick
The accomplish of one’s goals via practical means rather than having idealism drive political decisions.