French Revolution
This social group walked out of the Estates-General and formed the National Assembly in 1789.
What is the Third State?
His defeat in this country marked the beginning of the decline of the French Empire.
What is Russia?
The rejection of this type of rule helped nationalist ideas spread across Europe after 1815.
What is Napoleonic rule?
This term describes the Italian national unification movement.
What is Risorgimento?
This northern state led the unification of Germany.
What is Prussia?
This event on 14 July 1789 symbolised the fall of absolutism and popular support for the National Assembly.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
This 1815 meeting restored absolutism and rejected national sovereignty in Europe.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
This country gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s with support from European liberals.
What is Greece?
This kingdom and its king, Victor Emmanuel II, led the main unification process after 1859.
What is Piedmont-Sardinia?
This customs union, created in 1834, facilitated economic unity among German states.
This declaration, approved in August 1789, proclaimed natural rights, equality, and freedoms for citizens.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This alliance of Russia, Austria and Prussia promised mutual support against liberal revolutions.
What is the Holy Alliance?
This European region broke away from the Netherlands.
What is Belgium?
This prime minister modernised Piedmont-Sardinia and negotiated alliances to unify Italy.
Who is Cavour?
This Prussian prime minister masterminded the German unification
Who is Bismarck?
This radical leader controlled the Committee of Public Safety and established the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
This 1815 battle marked Napoleon’s final defeat by Britain and Prussia.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
This empire, with many nationalities (Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Croats…), faced many nationalist revolts in 1848.
What is the Austrian Empire?
This revolutionary leader and his volunteers conquered the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1860).
Who is Garibaldi?
Prussia defeated this country in 1866, forcing it to give up its claims in Germany.
This 1799 event ended the Directory and brought a young general to power.
What is Napoleon Bonaparte’s coup d’état?
These four countries defeat Napoleon.
What are the UK, Prussia, Russia and Austria?
This concept argues each nation should have its own state, a key idea strengthened by anti-French feeling.
What is nationalism?
This city became the capital of Italy in 1870 after being occupied by the new Italian state.
He became kaiser in 1871, marking the birth of the German Second Reich.
Who is William I of Prussia?