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chapter 24
the key terms and people
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Giuseppe Mazzini | founder of Young Italy, a nationalist group that fought for unification |
| Camillo di Cavour | leader of the Italian unification movement |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | military leader who unified the southern states, joined them to the north, eventually forming the united Kingdom of Italy |
| Red Shirts | Garibaldi's small, loyal army of volunteer troops |
| Victor Emmanuel | the first king of the united Italy |
| Frederic Wilhelm IV | Prussian king during the revolution of 1848 |
| Zollverein | an economic alliance that allowed for free trade between the German states |
| Otto von Bismarck | Prussian prime minister, leading force behind German unification, later first chancellor of Germany |
| Wilhelm I | king of Prussia who appointed Bismarck prime minister |
| realpolitik | "politics of reality,” philosophy based on practical goals, used by Bismarck |
| Austro-Prussian War | war between Prussia and Austria from June to August 1866 |
| Franco-Prussian War | war between France and Prussia from 1870 to 1871, unification of Germany resulted |
| Franz Joseph I | emperor of Austria in 1848 |
| Magyars | an ethnic group that fought for independence in Hungary |
| Dual Monarchy | the joining of Austria and Hungary to create Austria-Hungary, two separate, equal states under one ruler, the Austrian emperor |
| Crimean War | war in which Britain, France, and Ottoman Turks fought Russia |
| Balkan Wars | war involving many European nations that began in 1912, resulted in the Ottoman empire losing most of its land in Europe |
| Young Turks | nationalist group that began a revolution in Turkey in 1908 |
| autocracy | government by one ruler with unlimited power |
| serfs | people who were considered part of the land they worked on |
| Alexander II | Russian czar who came to power in 1855, believed reform was necessary |
| pogroms | widespread violent attacks by ethnic Russians against Jews |
| Trans-Siberian Railroad | railroad linking western Russia to Siberia in the east |
| Russo-Japanese War | war that started in 1904 between Japan and Russia |
| socialist republic | a form of government in which the state owns and distributes all goods to the people and there is no private property |
| Vladimir Lenin | Marxist who published a work supporting the overthrow of the czar |
| Bloody Sunday | massacre of Russian protesters by their government on January 22, 1905 |
| Duma | a representative assembly for approving all laws |