Latin America
This revolution in the Caribbean led to the French selling the Louisiana Purchase to America.
What was the Haitian Revolution?
The Greeks gained independence in 1830 from this Muslim Empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This was the practice of forcing Russian culture on all the ethnic groups of the Russian empire.
What is Russification?
This German state led the effort for German Unification.
What was Prussia?
This man invaded Spain and Portugal in 1807, leading the Portuguese Royal Family to flee to Brazil.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
Self-educated in the art of war, this man was the Haitian leader for the first phase of the Haitian Revolution
Who was Toussaint l'ouverture?
This Russian leader ended serfdom officially but still kept the serfs tied to the land with debt.
Who was Alexander II?
Italian nationalist looked to this Italian state for leadership, the largest and most powerful.
What was Piedmont-Sardinia?
This man is the Father of the Modern German Nation.
Who was Otto Von Bismarck?
This leader was elected President of France in 1848 and then declared himself Emperor in 1852.
Who was Louis-Napoleon?
Known as “El Liberator”, he would ultimately defeat the Spanish and free South America from Spanish rule.
Who was Simon Bolivar?
The Austrian Empire broke into what two nation-states while remaining one empire?
What are Austria and Hungary?
This Italian soldier led his Army of “Redshirts” in conquering Sicily and then Southern Italy.
Who was Garibaldi?
Tough, power politics with no room for idealism.
What is Realpolitik?
The forces of Northern Italy and Southern Italy agreed to unite under the leadership of this King.
Who was King Victor Emmanuel II?
Mexico’s moves towards independence in the 1800’s are a mess…who is the first revolutionary leader that rose up in 1810?
Father Miguel Hidalgo
Despite losing the Papal States to the new nation of Italy, the Pope got to keep this section of Rome, one of smallest independent nations in the world.
What is Vatican City?
This Italian leader manipulated the French to help him drive Austria out of Northern Italy
Who was Cavour?
Bismarck stated that the great issues of the day will be decided not by speeches but by what two things?
What are Blood and Iron?
This American proclamation in December of 1823 told European nations that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open for colonization.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
This was the site of the final major battle for independence for the Creole people of South America over the Spanish on December 9th, 1824.
What was the Battle of Ayacucho?
Russia invaded Ukraine in 1853 and by 1856 was defeated by the forces of France, England, Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire in this war.
What was the Crimean War?
This war brought the end of the Ottoman, German, Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires.
What was World War I?
Winning this war in 1870 allowed Prussia to to unify all the German states under their control and create the modern German nation-state.
What was the Franco-Prussian War?
The Ottoman Turks committed organized genocide against these Christian people in 1894 and again in 1915.
Who are the Armenians?