One event that "opened" the East to European imperialism was the completion of this massive engineering project in 1859.
What is the Suez Canal?
100
This war resulted in the final unification of Germany in 1871.
What is the Franco-Prussian War?
100
This was the largest party in the German Reichstag by 1912.
What is the Social Democratic Party (SPD)?
100
This nurse became famous for her battlefield medical service during the Crimean War.
What is Florence Nightingale?
100
Theodore Herzl advocated this, a call for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
What is zionism?
200
This international meeting created the "rules" for the "scramble for Africa."
What is the Berlin Conference?
200
This Italian statesman from Piedmont-Sardinia was the architect of Italian unification after 1850.
Who is Camilo di.Cavour?
200
This chancellor initiated the first social welfare system in European history.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
200
This monarch became the first king of Italy in 1871.
What is Victor Emmanuel?
200
This new philosophy, development by Herbert Spencer, seemed to justify strong countries conquering weak ones.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
This somewhat racist term was used to refer to the inner regions of Africa, where few Europeans had been before the 1890s. It's also the name of a Joseph Conrad novel with imperialist themes.
What is the "Heart of Darkness"?
300
This romantic Italian leader and his Red Shirts unified the southern part of Italy before handing it over to King Victor Emmanuel.
Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?
300
This anti-Semitic scandal nearly tore the French Republic apart in the 1890s.
What is the Dreyfus Affair?
300
This leader of the "Liberal Empire" in France established the new model for the nation state in the 2nd half of the 19th century.
Who is Napoleon III?
300
This was Bismarck's attempt to politically suppress Catholics in newly unified Germany.
What is "kulturkampf"?
400
These two African countries were the only remaining free states by 1914.
What are Ethiopia and Liberia?
400
The "zollverein" was an economic union and free trade zone that caused friction between Prussia and this empire.
What is the Austrian Empire?
400
This militant British feminist led the fight for female suffrage in Britain in the late 19th and early 20th century.
What is Emmeline Pankhurst?
400
This poet wrote the "White Man's Burden," conveying a cynical view of imperialism.
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
400
This group took over the French government briefly after the end of the Franco-Prussian War and was brutally and violently defeated.
What is the Paris Commune?
500
This 1899-1901 colonial war in South Africa foreshadowed WWI with its use of trench warfare and also WWII with the coinage of the term "concentration camp."
What is the Boer War?
500
This conflict convinced Russia that it had fallen way behind the Western powers both militarily and industrially.
What is the Crimean War?
500
Edouard Bernstein advocated this "revised" political philosophy; he was viewed by purists as a real sellout!
What is socialist revisionism?
500
Pope Pius IX issued the "Syllabus of Errors" in 1864 while opposing the unification of this country.
What is Italy?
500
This political party oversaw the creation of a welfare system in Britain in the early 20th century.