Exam 3 Flashcards
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Who were the Red Shirts in the nineteenth century?
Giuseppe Garibaldi’s guerrilla army involved in the invasion of Sicily in 1860
Count Arthur de Gobineau’s racial theory divided humanity into races based on geographical location and
claimed that the Aryan race was superior to the others.
Who was Theodor Herzl?
The founder of the Zionist Jewish national movement
Which reform was the first and most important of the Great Reforms in Russia?
Abolition of serfdom
Louis Napoleon’s great success with the economy included
encouraging new investment banks and railroad construction.
Unlike other political parties, Marxist socialists
organized themselves into an international organization
Which factor was crucial to the success of Count Camillo di Cavour’s plan to unify northern Italy in the nineteenth century?
A secret alliance with Napoleon III against Austria
Realpolitik is most associated with which statesman?
Otto von Bismarck
How did labor unions in Germany change in the early 1900s?
They increasingly concentrated on bread-and-butter issues rather than revolution.
The political goal of creating free, compulsory elementary education in late-nineteenth-century France was to
act as a nation-building tool in which all children would be taught secular, republican values.
In nineteenth-century Italy, Giuseppe Garibaldi was a
Romantic nationalist.
After the Franco-Prussian War, Prussia
imposed severe peace terms on France
Which name was given to the long-established customs union among the German states?
Zollverein
How did Louis Napoleon believe that the people should be represented in government?
By a strong national leader whose reforms would aid all the people
The political goal of creating free, compulsory elementary education in late-nineteenth-century France was to
act as a nation-building tool in which all children would be taught secular, republican values.
What did Louis Napoleon proclaim when he restored universal male suffrage and declared the Second French Empire?
He was above political bickering
Which effect did the Dreyfus affair have on late-nineteenth-century France?
It revived republican distrust of the Catholic Church
Which reform was the first and most important of the Great Reforms in Russia?
Abolition of serfdom
Otto von Bismarck’s Kulturkampf refers to his
attack on the Catholic Church in the German Empire
How did Bismarck structure the North German Confederation to secure the authority of the Prussian emperor?
The emperor controlled the army and foreign affairs, and universal male suffrage permitted him to go directly to the people if middle-class liberals resisted his bills in the legislature.
The national unification processes of Germany and Italy were similar in that they all
involved violence and warfare
In the 1890s, how did Sergei Witte seek to transform Russia?
He believed that Russia’s industrial backwardness was limiting its power and implemented industrial policies to catch up with the West.
Which event directly prompted the Great Reforms in Russia, including the emancipation of the serfs?
Russia’s defeat in the Crimean War of 1853-1856
Which of the following statements is true of the radical rhetoric of the socialist politicians?
The rhetoric created concern for the conservative upper classes