World War I

Question 1

Nationalism

Answer 1

spirit or aspirations common to the whole of a nation.

Question 2

Risorgimento

Answer 2

Italian unification, or the Risorgimento, was the political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century.

Question 3

Young Italy movement

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Young Italy (Italian: La Giovane Italia) was a political movement for Italian youth (under age 40) founded in 1831 by Giuseppe Mazzini. Its goal was to create a united Italian republic through promoting a general insurrection in the Italian reactionary states and in the lands occupied by the Austrian Empire.

Question 4

Giuseppe Mazzini

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Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy and spearheaded the Italian revolutionary movement.

Question 5

Giuseppe Garibaldi

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Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy.

Question 6

Liberal

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open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.

Question 7

Unification

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the process of being united or made into a whole.

Question 8

Otto von Bismarck

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Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, known as Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890.

Question 9

Kaiser

Answer 9

the German emperor, the emperor of Austria, or the head of the Holy Roman Empire.

Question 10

The Zollverein

Answer 10

the customs union of German states in the 19th century.

Question 11

The junkers

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a German nobleman or aristocrat, especially a member of the Prussian aristocracy.

Question 12

Franco-Prussian war

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The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon III and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.

Question 13

Realpolitik

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a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations.

Question 14

Czar Alexander

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Alexander was the first Russian King of Poland, reigning from 1815 to 1825, as well as the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland. He was sometimes called Alexander the Blessed. He was born in Saint Petersburg to Grand Duke Paul Petrovich, later Emperor Paul I, and succeeded to the throne after his father was murdered.

Question 15

Emancipation

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the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.

Question 16

Serfs

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an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord’s estate.

Question 17

Social Democratic Party

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The Social Democratic Party of Germany (German: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) is a social-democratic political party in Germany.

Question 18

Autocrat

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a ruler who has absolute power.

Question 19

Pogroms

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an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe.

Question 20

Nihilists

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a person who believes that life is meaningless and rejects all religious and moral principles.

Question 21

Duma

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a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics of the former Soviet Union.

Question 22

Tanzimat reforms

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The Tanzimât, literally meaning reorganization of the Ottoman Empire, was a period of reformation that began in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876.

Question 23

Dual monarchy

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Dual monarchy occurs when two separate kingdoms are ruled by the same monarch, follow the same foreign policy, exist in a customs union with each other and have a combined military but are otherwise self-governing. Wikipedia

Question 24

Crimean war

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The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to March 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia.

Question 25

Treaty of sanstefano

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San Stefano, Treaty of. Treaty of San Stefano (săn stĕf´ənō), 1878, peace treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, at the conclusion of the last of the Russo-Turkish Wars; it was signed at San Stefano (now Yeşilköy), a village W of İstanbul, Turkey.

Question 26

Militarism

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the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests.

Question 27

Alliance system

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The alliance system was one of the main causes of World War One.The alliance system was made up of two groups, the Central powers (Germany, Austria- Hungary, Italy(1914), and Turkey).The second group was the Allied powers (Russia, France, Great Britain, and United states).The alliance system is when countries join

Question 28

Triple alliance

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The Triple Alliance, also known as the Triplice, was a secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed on 20 May 1882 and renewed periodically until World War I. Germany and Austria-Hungary had been closely allied since 1879.

Question 29

Triple entente

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The Triple Entente was the understanding linking the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente on 31 August 1907.

Question 30

Kuiturkampf

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Kulturkampf is a German term referring to a set of policies enacted from 1871 to 1878 by the Prime Minister of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck, in relation to secularity and the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Prussia.

Question 31

Reichstag

Answer 31

The Reichstag building is a historical edifice in Berlin, Germany, constructed to house the Imperial Diet, of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Diet until 1933, when it was severely damaged after it was set on fire.

Question 32

Treaty of Prague

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The Peace of Prague was a peace treaty signed between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire at Prague on 23 August 1866, ending the Austro-Prussian War.

Question 33

Francis Joseph I

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Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, and many others from 2 December 1848 until his death on 21 November 1916. From 1 May 1850 to 24 August 1866 he was also President of the German Confederation.

Question 34

Revolution of 1905

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The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which was directed at the government. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies.

Question 35

Mobilization

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the action of a country or its government preparing and organizing troops for active service.