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Lesson 7 Nationalism
Term | Definition |
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Nation | a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. |
Nationalism | patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts. |
Ethnic Group | a community or population made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent. |
Ethnicity | the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition. |
Nation State | a sovereign state whose citizens or subjects are relatively homogeneous in factors such as language or common descent. |
Realpolitik | a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations. |
Multinational States | is a sovereign state which is viewed as comprising two or more nations. |
Multi-state Nation | a group of people with a shared ethnic or linguistic culture that resides in multiple states. |
Balance of Power | a situation in which nations of the world have roughly equal power. |
Kaiser | the German emperor, the emperor of Austria, or the head of the Holy Roman Empire. |
Otto von Bismarck | was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890. |
Congress of Vienna | was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from November 1814 to June 1815, though the delegates had arrived and were already negotiating by late September 1814. |
Seven Weeks' War | also called Austro-Prussian War, (1866), war between Prussia on the one side and Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, and certain minor German states on the other. It ended in a Prussian victory, which meant the exclusion of Austria from Germany |
Red Shirts | is the name given to the volunteers who followed Giuseppe Garibaldi in southern Italy during his Mille expedition to southern Italy, but sometimes extended to other campaigns of his. |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | was an Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy. He is considered, with Camillo Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II and Giuseppe Mazzini, as one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland". |
Camillo di Cavour | generally known as Count Cavour was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification. |
Lord Castlereagh | Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCH, PC, PC, usually known as Lord Castlereagh, was an Irish/British statesman. |
Magyars | are a nation and ethnic group who speak Hungarian and are primarily associated with Hungary. |