Stufflet Euro U7P1 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Dreyfus Affair | controversy in which a Jewish French army officer was falsely accused of selling military secrets to the Germans |
Emile Zola | French realist writer who wrote J'Accuse, helping to exonerate Alfred Dreyfus |
Crimean War | war caused by a religious dispute between Catholics and Orthodox Christians over Holy Land; exposed Russia's military and economic backwardness |
Sick Man of Europe | term for crumbling Ottoman Empire |
Alexander II | Russian tsar who emancipated Russia's serfs |
Sergei Witte | Russian Finance Minister that oversaw Russian economic development in 1890s; railroads and tariffs |
Russification | Alexander III's attempt to repress local customs and languages |
Pale of Settlement | the only area of the Russian Empire in which Jews were permitted to live |
Giuseppe Mazzini | leader of Young Italy nationalist movement |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | leader of radical Red Shirts; he was heir to Mazzini's radical nationalist movement; gave in to liberals from north |
Count Camillo di Cavour | liberal prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia; led Italian unification |
Otto von Bismarck | Prussian Chancellor that led German unification |
Franco-Prussian War of 1870 | war that resulted in unification of Germany at Versailles |
Kulturkampf | Bismarck's attempt to subdue and take power from the Catholic Church |
Dual Monarchy | term for Austria-Hungary after 1867 |
anti-semitism | hatred of Jews |
Karl Lueger | anti-semitic mayor of Vienna; used anti-semitism to get elected |
Zionism | movement to form a Jewish homeland |
Theodor Herzl | Austrian Jewish journalist who started Zionist movement |
Grimm Brothers | they promoted cultural German nationalism by collecting German folk tales |
Houston Stewart Chamberlain | he believed belonging to a national group was based on "race" |
Balfour Declaration | the British promise in 1917 to give the Jews a homeland in the Middle East |
Realpolitik | a practical approach to politics, not based on strict ideology |
Austro-Prussian War | in 1866, this resulted in Austria being removed from the process of German unification |
Triple Alliance | agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
Weltpolitik | refers to Germany's attempt to become a world power through the expansion of its navy |
Bosnia-Herzegovina Annexation Crisis | resulted when Bosnia-Herzegovina was taken over by Austria-Hungary instead of Serbia in 1908 |
First Balkan War | forced the Ottomans off the European continent. |
Second Balkan War | between the Balkan states; was over how big their countries would be |
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