yeah if you say so
Realistic politics based on the needs of the state.
Realpolitik
Famine that ended up killing over 1 million people in Ireland
Potato Famine
Describe manifest destiny
cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
The Statue of Liberty was from what country?
France
Why did the Pope and Nobles oppose the spread of democracy and unification?
Fear of power/authority being taken away
Define Russification
Non Russian communities giving up their culture for Russian culture.
The two most important leaders in the unification of Italy.
Cavour and Garibaldi
Venetia and Lombardy were cities of...
trade
What were some things women did as protest during the suffrage movements?
planted bombs, broke windows, handcuffing themselves to railroads
What was Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's main goal?
to increase the power of Prussia
Ruled over the Hapsburg throne at age 18 and enacted a constitution that set up a legislature
Francis Joseph
Name 3 countries that Emigrants from Ireland went to, to escape the Potato Famine.
England, New Zealand, North America, and Australia.
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Who created the land act?
William Gladstone
Named the first King of Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Who made the statement, "When Frances sneezes, Europe catches cold"?
Metternich
Name of the ships people from Ireland used to escape Ireland.
coffin ships
What did the second reform act in Britain allow?
allowed many working-class men to vote for the first time
Before the USA gained control of Florida, this country had control...
Spain
The last area to be added to Italy
Rome (Papal States)
DAILY DOUBLE!!
What did Bismarck do when William II inherited the thrown?
He resigned after disagreeing about where authority came from.
believed that people’s first loyalty should be to Germany, not to the Catholic Church.
Otto Von Bismarck
What tsar said "Better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait until it will be abolished by a movement from below." ?
Tsar Alexander II
Britain’s Corn Laws imposed high tariffs on imported grains. Wealthy landowners wanted to protect their profitable cash crops from the cheaper foreign imports., so they imposed...
Tariffs
How did Bismarck use realpolitik? (give me 2 examples)
(1) his strengthening the army using money collected for other purposes in order to pursue an aggressive foreign policy,
(2) invented an excuse to attack Austria, and
(3) tricking Napoleon III into war with Prussia.
The Balkans was known as the “powder keg of Europe” because
they had a long history of nationalists uprising and ethic clashes