The Austro-Hungarian Empire had at least 17 different __________________ within their empire which led to conflict.
Nationalities/ethnic groups
This term means survival of the fittest (people).
What is Social Darwinism?
This company initially held control in India but lost control to the crown after a series of abuses were exposed.
He was the Prime Minister of Prussia, led the Prussian charge to unite Germany for Kaiser Wilhelm I Hohenzollern and became the first Chancellor of the newly formed Germany
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
Garibaldi and Cavour
Meeting in which European nations set rules on how to colonize Africa and avoid warring with one another -- Africans were not asked their opinions
What is the 1884 Berlin Conference?
This was an Indian rebellion in which Indian soldiers rebelled against British imperialists over a lack of respect for both Muslim and Hindu religious beliefs.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
That politics should be based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations and the idea that the end justifies the means.
What is Realpolitik?
He was the first King of Italy
Victor Emmanuel II
Based on the poem by Kipling this was the belief by Europeans that they had a responsibility to "civilize the heathens of the world"
What was "White Man's Burden"
Famines in India during the rule of the British were exacerbated by the fact the British limited subsistence farming while forcing these types of crops instead.
Cash Crops
List in order the THREE nations Bismark fought to Unite Germany
Denmark, Austria and France
Name of Italian nationalist group formed in 1831 by Guiseppe Mazzini in an early attempt to unify Italy.
Young Italy
In 1899 the USA facilitated this "deal" over trade issues with China. However, the deal was made not with the Chinese but rather with the European nations that controlled the trade in China.
What was the Open Door Policy
This Revolution was a wave of mass political and social unrest that began to spread across the Empire in 1905. The unrest was directed primarily against the monarch, the nobility, and the ruling class. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies. In response to the public pressure, Nicholas II was forced to go back on his earlier authoritarian stance and enact some reforms -- albeit temporarily --- and served as a precursor to a 1917 revolution that would topple the empire and lead to the royal family's execution.
Russian Revolution of 1905
Germany has had three of these, the first was the Roman Empire, the second was with Bismarck, the third and last with Hitler
What is Reich?
What was the biggest economic difference between northern and southern Italy -- even after unification?Northern Italy was ________ and ________
Southern Italy was ________ and _______-
North: wealthier and industrial
South: poor and agricultural
This group of Eastern European Nations are collectively referred to as ___________

Afrikaners, a group of South Africans who are descendants of Dutch, German, and French Huguenot settlers who arrived in the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 found themselves defending their land from the British in the 1800s. They won the first but lost the second giving the British control of South Africa.These wars are collectively known as ______
The Boer Wars
in the 1800s these TWO ethnic groups in Eastern Europe and within the borders of the Ottoman Empire gained their independence which further weakened the empire.
Greek (Greece) and Serbs (Serbia)