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Fisher Global Era 1B
Global Era 1 B: Nationalism and Unification
Question | Answer |
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Congress of Vienna 1814-1815 | Meeting between European nations to create peace plan after collapse of French Empire |
Prince Metternich | Led effort to restore European borders and monarchs to restore balance of power after collapse of French Empire |
Balance of power | Countries have equal power to prevent one nations from being a threat to others |
Nationalism | Love of country, belief in right to sovereignty and autonomy for people with a common culture |
Sovereignty | Right to independent nation with self-government |
Ethnocentrism | Extreme nationalism, belief in superiority of one's culture over others |
Italian unification | Attempt to unite the several independent states in the area that is now the country of Italy |
Leaders of Italian unification | Camillo di Cavour, Guiseppe Mazzini, Guiseppe Garibaldi, King Victor Emmanuel |
Prussia | Largest of the 39 independent nations that existed in the area that is now Germany before unification in 1815 |
Otto von Bismarck | Leader of German unification. Practiced Blood and Iron Policy |
Blood and Iron Policy | Support for the use of military power to unite Germany. Policy of Otto von Bismarck |
Wars fought to unite Germany | Austro-Prussian War (aka Seven Weeks War), Franco-Prussian War |