Chapter 22 Flashcards
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Piedmont
Northern Italian kingdom Sardenia kept liberal constitution adopted during 1848 revolution, welcomed political refugees from other Italian states
Risorgimento
Italian term beginning late 18th century for political and cultural renewal of Italy later associated with Italian unification
Camille Di Cavour
Main character in unification of Italy; aristocrat; had on Army - decided to send troops to fight for France
At peace conference asks Napoleon to kick Olistra out in exchange for land
Giuseppe Garibaldi
In chafe of south - Lead redshirts to secure yourself
Napoleon III
Favor the cause of Italian liberation from Austria’s rule destroying Austria’s power strengthened France
Papal States
Territories in Italian peninsula under sovereign direct rule of the pope
Realpolitik
Style of governing based on practical and material factors rather than on ethics or ideology and uses all means including war to expand influence and power of a state
Congress System
System of European international relations in the first half of the 19th century in which major European states cooperated to preserve the balance of power
Prussia
German kingdom inhabited early times by West Slavic tribes
long tradition of militarism and authoritarianism forged German unification
Otto Von Bismarck
19th-century German statesman
through series of aggressive wars united Germany
Germany became dominant power in Europe under his administration said have to do it by blood and iron
Minister Pres. of Prussia
Wilhelm I
King of Prussia who engineered the withdrawal of Bismarck’s candidacy for Spanish time removing the calls for war determined strengths and Prussia by expanding size and effectiveness of army
Junkers
Members of the landed nobility in Prussia (Prussian aristocrats)
Owned estates maintained and worked by Slavic peasants with few rights
Example: Bismarck was a junker
EMS Dispatch
Wilhelm telegraphed meetings with French to Bismarck; chancellor edited message which made exchange between King and ambassador seem more curt (rudely brief) than actually have been
French interpreted as a deliberate snub to their ambassador and overreacted, Napoleon declared war
Young Turks
Young intellectuals who wanted to transform the Ottoman Empire into a more modern westernized state
Expression came to designated any group activists pushing for political change
Sick Man of Empire
Ottoman Empire faced unrest within its borders and threats from expansionist designs of its neighbors
Crimean War
Fought Middle 19th Century
Senseless War
Crimea peninsula juts into Black Sea and sits bottom of Russia
Fought a between Russia and Ottoman Empire
Great Britain and France didn’t want Russia orthodox to do that because they would take over holy land
Poor leadership and supply linens
Major disaster, many casualties, disease rampant
First war photographed immediately reported because invention of telegraph
War ended in Treaty of Paris - nobody followed the treaty
Kept Russia from taking over holy land
Florence Nightingale
One of the few heroic figures to emerge from the Crimean War
English nurse organized nursing services to care for British sick and wounded
founded First Commercial nursing school
MIR
Russian peasant commune after Tsar Alexander II freed serfs, the Mir determined land use and paid the government mortgages and taxes
Magyars
Dominance in Hungary, Magyars insisted on self-rule claim based on age-old right and Vienna’s initial acceptance of autonomy
Magyar corporation crucial for well-being of Habsburgs Empire
Louis Thiers
Leader of the new French Republic who was an old prime minister
Paris Commune
Parisian workers uprising intended to establish a workers government under home rule, violently suppressed by the army and the conservative French government
Second Reform Bill
In Britain extended the vote and equalize voting districts giving significantly more representation urban areas lowering property qualifications and giving right to vote
Congress of Paris
Humiliated Russia and restricted its military access to Black Sea - postwar settlement dictated reforms and treatment of Christians and Ottoman empire, which, in turn in paired the Ottoman ability to repressed nationalist movements and the Balkans
Tsar Alexander II
After Russia’s defeat in Crimean War - he feared that if serfdom were not abolished from above it would be overthrown by a serf rebellion that would destroy the aristocracy itself issued a decree freeing serfs, he emancipated 22 million people from system allow them to be bought and sold