UNIT 7:19th CENTURY PERSEPECTIVE AND DEVELOPMENT Flashcards
Nationalism
A feeling of strong identification with ones own people and ones own cultural heritage, and those bonds are strengthened by a shared history and a shared language
Some changes?
emergence of Nation State-> demand of independence
causes of revolution
1.Romantic Idealism
2.Liberal Reforms
3.Political Unification
4.Racialism
Giuseppe Mazzini
the soul of the Italian unification
bc he staged uprising w/ his Young Italy
anti-semitism
racial stereotype against Jewish
Dreyfus Affair
showed that France was still somewhat racist/conservative
Zionism
to go against Anti-Semitism
Palestine is Jewish hometown
Napoleon the III
Napoleon’s nephew who introduced liberal reforms in France
Universal Suffrage of Men
Otto van Bismark of Prussia
Conservative
German Unification
realpolitik
Dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary
after revolutions of 1848, Hungarians wanted independence but resulted with the dual monarchy
stabilize the state
The Crimean War
Both France and Russia, wanted to weaken the Ottoman Empire, which was already growing weak bc of its nationalist movements
Russia lost this war-> Humiliation
The consequence of the Crimean War?
The Crimean War effectively broke up the Concert of Europe which had kept the peace and the balance of power since its inception
Italian Unification
Nationalist in Northern Italy joined Cavour and then Garibaldi joined Cavour and then Franco-Prussian war made napoleon withdrew troops in central italy= Unification
Count Cavour
Mind of the unification
Giuseppe Garibaldi
the sword
red shirt army
southern italy
Franco-Prussian War
final push for Italian unification and German unification
German Unification
Otto Van Bismark alliance
realpolik
wars
realpolitik
a way of political maneuvering that sought practical results
Wars of German Unification
1.Prussian-Danish War
2.Prussian-Austrian War
3.Franco-Prussian War
Bismarks alliances
Three Emperor League
-Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia
Reinsurance Treaty
-Russia and Germany
Triple Alliance
-.Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy
Otto van Biskmark’s goal?
Unify Germany and Isolate France
By the time Bismark was dismissed as chancellor in 1890, Europe was a collection of mutually antagonistic alliances, which is going to make negotiation and flexibility between these two sides almost impossible
Tensions in Balkan
National dissent
eventually leaded to WW1 bc of the alliances in this war
Darwinism
natural selection-survival of the fittest
evolution
Social Darwinism
strong societies were the ones that adapted and thrived while weak societies were destined to fade away under the principle of natural selection