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.