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History Ch. 17
Bold terms from 17.3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| realpolitik | "politics of reality"; using whatever political means necessary - including force - to advance national goals |
| Risorgimento | Italian nationalist movement |
| Giuseppe Mazzini | he started a patriotic society called Young Italy, determining to fight, for Italian unification |
| Camillo di Cavour | he was responsible for unifying Italy; prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | he was strongly patriotic and determined to unify Italy; gathered a band of loyal followers called "Red Shirts" |
| Victor Emmanuel II | he was the first king of Italy |
| Zollverein | nineteenth-century German trade union under the leadership of Prussia |
| Otto von Bismarck | he was an architect of political unification in Germany; he was crafty and opportunistic |
| Austro-Prussian War | war that was also called Seven Weeks' War; 1886 war in which Prussia defeated Austria |
| Franco-Prussian War | war between France and Prussia immediately caused by the Ems dispatch; won by Prussia, ended the Second French Empire |
| Dual Monarchy | Austro-Hungarian Empire under one crown |
| Alexander II | recognized his father's policy of "Autocracy, Orthodoxy, and Nationalism" had caused widespread discontent |