VOCABULARY
POTPOURRI
NATIONALISM
ITALIA
GERMANY
WILD CARDS
100
A nation's warlike policy or practice, this usually involves building up armies and navies.
What is militarism?
100
Definition of nationalism.
What is loyalty and devotion to one's country?
100
These wars gave birth to nationalism in Italy.
What were the Napoleonic Wars?
100
In April 1849, representatives of the German states met in a Parliament and asked Frederick Wilhelm IV of Prussia to do this.
What is become king of all the German states?
100
Congress of Vienna's biggest influence, he opposed the rising nationalism in Europe.
Who is Prince Metternich?
200
A plan that helps a country make decisions, it can be foreign or domestic.
What is a policy?
200
People feel they are part of the same nation when they have these two things in common.
What are a common language and a common culture?
200
The "soul" of Italian unity, he led a failed rebellion in 1848.
Who is Giuseppe Mazzini?
200
Prime minister who wanted to unite all of the German states under Prussian leadership by "blood and iron."
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
200
Robspierre's liberal use of the "national razor" in France before the Directory and the Consulate.
What is the Reign of Terror?
300
Kaiser
Who is the emperor of Germany?
300
This often makes people feel a stronger sense of nationalism.
What is invasion by a foreign country?
300
Prime minister of Sardinia and the "brain" of Italian unity, he made a secret pact with France to declare war on Austria in 1859.
Who is Camillo Cavour?
300
At the end of the Franco-Prussian war, Germany took the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine from France because they contained France's richest source of these two things.
What are iron and coal?
300
His code made every man equal under the law but his Continental System turned European countries against him and the Russian winter destroyed his invading army.
Who is Napoleon?
400
The act of surrounding a city or fort with an army and cutting off its supplies.
What is a siege?
400
Each country has one of these to make laws for the entire nation.
What is a government?
400
The "sword" of Italian unity, after a successful invasion of Sicily, he led his red-shirts north to Rome where they joined Sardinian forces and united almost all of the country.
Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?
400
When William I agreed to become the first emperor of German in 1871, his empire was called this.
What is the Second Reich?
400
Iron, coal, a baby boom and the locomotive led to this revolution in England.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
500
The German word for empire.
What is a reich?
500
The traditions and customs that a nation passes down to its descendants.
What is a heritage?
500
The first king of a unified Italy.
Who is King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia?
500
Bismarck's program to shape the minds controlling civilization.
What was the Kulturkampf?
500
Father of free-market economics, he wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776.
Who is Adam Smith?
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