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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| camillo di cavour | prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia who wanted Sardinia to drive Austria out of northern iTALY |
| things cavour did | he built railways, improfved agriculture, and developed industry |
| Sardinia became an ally of | Britain and France, joining them in war against Russia |
| Sardinia would give Nice and Savoy to France in return for | protection against a war with Austria |
| Cavour provoked Austria | into war |
| Even though Franc and Sardinia won | France signed a treaty with Austria that gave Lombrad but not Venetia to Sardinia |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | commander of the Red Shirts, who was determned to free the Kingdom of the Two Siciles from the Bourbon King |
| on March 1861 Victor | EMMANUAL WAS PROCLAIMED kING OF iTALY |
| Zollverein | an organization that reduced tariffs among its emmebers |
| Otto von Bismarck | Prussia's prime minister in 1862, known to be against parliament opposed democracy and wanted to stregthen the power of king |
| bismarck was the mater of realpolitik | politics in which success matters more than legality or idealism |
| Bismarck coined the phrase | blood and iron |
| blood and iron meant | no speeches, no idles, but war and technology would unite germany |
| Prussia and Austria went to war with Denmarck because | Denmarck claimed two coastal regions- Schleswig and Holstein-- quickly defeated |
| Bismarck went to war with Austria | over the dispute over the terroritories they gained together |
| Seven Weeks War of1866 | Prussia qucikyl defeated Austria |
| Bismarck was confidnet that if | Prussia went to war with France, the south Germanstates would slide with Prussia |
| The Spanish throne was ofered to a prince of Hohenzollern family, who ruled Prussia. France made the demand | King William I of Prussia should prmise that no memmeber of the Hohenzollern family would ever accept the Spanish throne |
| Bismarck chaged | the telergram to make it seem as if the Frednch ambassador and the German king insulted each other. Both countries demande war. |
| Franco-Prussian War | took 6 weeks and Prussi won |
| Bismarck became | chancellor |
| German government after unification was called | Second Reich |
| William II | dismissed Bismarck but believed in blood and iron |
| western influences on eastern empire | people became aware of ideals of liberalism, democracy, and nationalism. heard about rebellions in many parts of Westen Europe |
| Dual Monarchy of | Austria-Hungary |
| Russia invaded Ottoman territory in an attempt to gain | control of the Bosposus and the Dardanelles |
| Slavic people revolted because of | internal unrest |
| Balkn and Russian forces defeated | the Ottoman Turks |
| Russification | the attempt to force the Russian lagnauge and culture upon a subject nation, against the Poles |
| Czar Alexander II | belieed that Russia had to follow the moel of the Western countries, czar-liberator |
| Alexanders msot famous act | was abolishing serfdom in 1861 |
| Alexander also | gave people some control over their own affairs, set up local counsils, and opened mor schools, modernized the court system, ferformed russian army |
| return to repression | Alexander III became czar and ended revolutionary activity once and orall., persecuted Russian Jews |
| Dreyfus Affair | a controversy that beacme the abtterground for the opposing forces of monarchists, aritrocrats, nationalists, clergy and army leaders. |
| theodor herzl | an austro-hungarian jewish writer who called for a separate homeland where jews could be safe |
| realistic literature | wrote about socialism and everyday ordinary life, tried to be true to life |
| new developments in music | new harmonies that sounded strange to their listeners |
| impressionism | their impresisn of the subject rather than a realistic represtation. edouard manet, calaude monet, edgar degas, pierre-auguste renoir. |
| post impessionism | paul cezanne, a fresnch artist who began as an impressionist. showed obecjts as patterns of forms and flat surfaces, expreiment with vivid colors and distorted images. paul gauguin. |
| cubism | george braque pablo picasso began a movement. looked at natural shapes and tried to paint them as geometrical forms. |