World War I Flashcards

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Nationalism

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spirit or aspirations common to the whole of a nation.

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Risorgimento

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Italian unification, or the Risorgimento, was the political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century.

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Young Italy movement

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Young Italy (Italian: La Giovane Italia) was a political movement for Italian youth (under age 40) founded in 1831 by Giuseppe Mazzini. Its goal was to create a united Italian republic through promoting a general insurrection in the Italian reactionary states and in the lands occupied by the Austrian Empire.

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Giuseppe Mazzini

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Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy and spearheaded the Italian revolutionary movement.

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

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Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy.

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Liberal

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open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.

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Unification

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the process of being united or made into a whole.

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Otto von Bismarck

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Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, known as Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890.

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Kaiser

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the German emperor, the emperor of Austria, or the head of the Holy Roman Empire.

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The Zollverein

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the customs union of German states in the 19th century.

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The junkers

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a German nobleman or aristocrat, especially a member of the Prussian aristocracy.

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Franco-Prussian war

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The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire of Napoleon III and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Realpolitik

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a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations.

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Czar Alexander

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Alexander was the first Russian King of Poland, reigning from 1815 to 1825, as well as the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland. He was sometimes called Alexander the Blessed. He was born in Saint Petersburg to Grand Duke Paul Petrovich, later Emperor Paul I, and succeeded to the throne after his father was murdered.

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Emancipation

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the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.

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Serfs

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an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord’s estate.

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Social Democratic Party

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The Social Democratic Party of Germany (German: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) is a social-democratic political party in Germany.

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Autocrat

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a ruler who has absolute power.

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Pogroms

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an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe.

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Nihilists

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a person who believes that life is meaningless and rejects all religious and moral principles.

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Duma

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a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics of the former Soviet Union.

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Tanzimat reforms

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The Tanzimât, literally meaning reorganization of the Ottoman Empire, was a period of reformation that began in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876.

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Dual monarchy

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Dual monarchy occurs when two separate kingdoms are ruled by the same monarch, follow the same foreign policy, exist in a customs union with each other and have a combined military but are otherwise self-governing. Wikipedia

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Crimean war

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The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to March 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia.

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Treaty of sanstefano

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San Stefano, Treaty of. Treaty of San Stefano (săn stĕf´ənō), 1878, peace treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, at the conclusion of the last of the Russo-Turkish Wars; it was signed at San Stefano (now Yeşilköy), a village W of İstanbul, Turkey.

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Militarism

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the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests.

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Alliance system

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The alliance system was one of the main causes of World War One.The alliance system was made up of two groups, the Central powers (Germany, Austria- Hungary, Italy(1914), and Turkey).The second group was the Allied powers (Russia, France, Great Britain, and United states).The alliance system is when countries join

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Triple alliance

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The Triple Alliance, also known as the Triplice, was a secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed on 20 May 1882 and renewed periodically until World War I. Germany and Austria-Hungary had been closely allied since 1879.

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Triple entente

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The Triple Entente was the understanding linking the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente on 31 August 1907.

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Kuiturkampf

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Kulturkampf is a German term referring to a set of policies enacted from 1871 to 1878 by the Prime Minister of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck, in relation to secularity and the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Reichstag

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The Reichstag building is a historical edifice in Berlin, Germany, constructed to house the Imperial Diet, of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Diet until 1933, when it was severely damaged after it was set on fire.

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Treaty of Prague

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The Peace of Prague was a peace treaty signed between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire at Prague on 23 August 1866, ending the Austro-Prussian War.

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Francis Joseph I

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Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I was Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, and many others from 2 December 1848 until his death on 21 November 1916. From 1 May 1850 to 24 August 1866 he was also President of the German Confederation.

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Revolution of 1905

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The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire, some of which was directed at the government. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies.

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Mobilization

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the action of a country or its government preparing and organizing troops for active service.