WWI Flashcards
Nationalism
patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts.
Risorgimento
Italian unification (Italian: Unificazione italiana), or theRisorgimento([risordʒiˈmento], meaning resurgence or revival), 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.
Young Italy Movement
Young Italy(Italian: La GiovaneItalia) was a politicalmovementforItalianyouth (under age 40) founded in 1831 by Giuseppe Mazzini. Its goal was to create a unitedItalianrepublic through promoting a general insurrection in theItalianreactionary states and in the lands occupied by the Austrian Empire.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy and spearheaded the Italian revolutionary movement.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy.
Liberal
open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.
Unification
the process of being united or made into a whole.
Otto Von Bismarck
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.
Kaiser
the German emperor, the emperor of Austria, or the head of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Zollverein
The Zollverein([ˈtsɔlfɛɐ̯ˌʔaɪn]) or German Customs Union was a coalition of German states formed to manage tariffs and economic policies within their territories. Organized by the 1833Zollvereintreaties,the Zollvereinformally came into existence on 1 January 1834.
The Junkers
a German nobleman or aristocrat, especially a member of the Prussian aristocracy.
Franco-Prussian War
Thewarof 1870–71 between France (under Napoleon III) and Prussia, in whichPrussiantroops advanced into France and decisively defeated the French at Sedan. The defeat marked the end of the French Second Empire.
RealPolitik
a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations.
Czar Alexander
n theczarof Russia whose plans to liberalize the government of Russia were unrealized because of the wars with Napoleon (1777-1825) Synonyms: Aleksandr Pavlovich,AlexanderI Example of:czar,tsar, tzar. a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
Emancipation
the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
Serfs
an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord’s estate.
Social democratic party
politicalpartyin Germany advocating a form ofsocialorganization based on the economic and political ideology of Karl Marx. any of several European politicalpartiesadvocating a gradual transition to socialism or a modified form of socialism by and underdemocraticprocesses.
Autocrat
ruler who has absolute power.
Pogroms
an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe.
Nihilists
a person who believes that life is meaningless and rejects all religious and moral principles.
Duma
a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics of the former Soviet Union.
Tanzimat Reforms
included education based on western math and science, postal service, telegraphs, railroads, constitution (improved position of religious minority groups), treaty with the British that improved trade by removed taxes
Dual Monarchy
Dual monarchyoccurs when two separate kingdoms are ruled by the samemonarch, follow the same foreign policy, exist in a customs union with each other and have a combined military but are otherwise self-governing. The term is typically used to refer to Austria–Hungary, adual monarchythat existed from 1867 to 1918.
Crimean War
TheCrimean War(French: Guerre de Crimée; Russian: Крымская война, Krymskaya voina; Turkish: Kırım Savaşı, Sardinian: Gherra diCrimea) 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.
Treaty of Sanstefano
The Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano (Russian: Сан-Стефанский мир; Peace of San-Stefano, Сан-Стефанский мирный договор;Peace treatyof San-Stefano, Turkish: Ayastefanos Muahedesi or Ayastefanos Antlaşması) was a treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed at San Stefano, then a village west of Constantinople, …
Militarism
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.
Alliance system
Thealliance systemwas one of the main causes of World War One.Thealliance systemwas 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).Thealliance systemis when countries join …
Triple Alliance
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.
Triple entente
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
Kuiturkamp
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.
Reichstag
Reichstagis a German word generallymeaningparliament, more directly translated as Diet of the Realm or National Diet or Imperial Diet.
Treaty of Praque
ThePeace of Praguewas apeace treatysigned between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire atPragueon 23 August 1866, ending the Austro-Prussian War.
Francis Joseph 1
ThePeace of Praguewas apeace treatysigned between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire atPragueon 23 August 1866, ending the Austro-Prussian War.
Revolution of 1905
ThePeace of Praguewas apeace treatysigned between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire atPragueon 23 August 1866, ending the Austro-Prussian War.
