German and Italian Unification

Question 1

Chancellor

Answer 1

the highest official, of a united Germany

Question 2

Otto Von Bismarck

Answer 2

• Succeeded in uniting Germany
• Came from Junker Class (made up of conservative landowning nobles)
• First served Prussia as diplomat in Russia and France, and than Prime minister to William I
• In 1871 became chancellor of Germany

Question 3

Realpolitik

Answer 3

realistic politics based on the needs of the states

Question 4

Annexed

Answer 4

to take control

Question 5

Kaiser

Answer 5

emperor

Question 6

Reich

Answer 6

empire

Question 7

Kulturkampf

Answer 7

“battle for civilization”

Question 8

William II

Answer 8

• Succeeded his grandfather in 1888 as Kaiser
• He wished to put his own stamp on Germany
• In 1890 he asked the dominating Bismarck to resign

Question 9

Social Welfare

Answer 9

programs provided by the state for the benefit of its citizens

Question 10

Camillo Cavour

Answer 10

• Prime minister of Italy
• He came from a noble family but favored liberal goals
• He was flexible, practical, crafty politician willing to use almost any means to achieve his goals

Question 11

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Answer 11

• A longtime nationalist and an ally of Mazzini, who was ready for action
• wanted to create an Italian Republic
• In 1860 he recruited a force of 1,000 red-shirted volunteers, who were given weapons and two boats to travel to Sicily and take control.
• they defeated Sicily and then marched North to Naples

Question 12

Anarchist

Answer 12

People who want to abolish all government, turned to sabotage and violence

Question 13

Emigration

Answer 13

Movement away from their homeland

Question 14

Francis Joseph

Answer 14

• Inherited the Hapsburg throne

- Hungarians wanted a self-rule government since he was so bad

Question 15

Dual Monarchy

Answer 15

Hungarian leader helped work out a compromise that created a new political power

Question 16

Colossus

Answer 16

Giant

Question 17

Alexander II

Answer 17

Moved to a reform but was killed, which led to the return to repression

Question 18

Emancipation

Answer 18

The freeing of serfs

Question 19

Zemstvos

Answer 19

A system of local governments, with elected assemblies

Question 20

Pogrom

Answer 20

Violent mob attacks on Jewish people

Question 21

Duma

Answer 21

elected legislature

Question 22

Russification

Answer 22

Aimed at suppressing the cultures of non-Russian people within the empire

Question 23

Zollverein

Answer 23

An economic union Prussia created

Question 24

Iron Chancellor

Answer 24

Bismarck sought to erase local loyalties and crush all opposition to the imperial state.

Question 25

Risorgimento

Answer 25

Italian nationalist movement

Question 26

Victor Emmanuel II

Answer 26

The symbol of risorgimento

Question 27

Decembrist Revolt

Answer 27

Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed himself from the line of succession.

Question 28

Bloody Sunday

Answer 28

British soldiers opened fire on a peaceful protest in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 14 people.