1848 Revolutions
This group, formed by German revolutionaries and based in London, is most famous for a pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
What is the Communist League?
What governmental position in Prussia and Germany did Bismarck most famously hold?
What is Chancellor?
This Italian kingdom was the site of Cavour's political career.
What is the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia?
This war, fought at the same time as the 1848 revolutions, pitted the Kingdom of Sardinia (Piedmont) against Austria and its more conservative allies.
What is the First Italian War of Independence?
This was the name of the central European state that included modern Germany, parts of northern Italy, parts of western Poland, and the Czech Republic before 1806.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
This short-lived political entity in central Italy faced off against the Pope in 1849 and saw the rise of Garibaldi as a leading figure in Italian nationalism.
What is the Roman Republic?
This social class, which produced Bismarck, dominated the Prussian military and, through the late nineteenth century, its politics.
What were the Junkers?
Cavour is usually regarded as a relatively conservative representative of this political ideology.
What is liberalism?
This revolutionary and military leader spent significant time in Latin America and the U.S., was a military leader in the Roman Republic, and led a crucial invasion of the Kingdom of Sicily in 1860.
Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?
This state in what's now eastern Germany and parts of Western Poland started life as the Electorate of Brandenburg.
What is Prussia?
This festival, held in Bavaria in 1832, was a disguised mass rally that saw the first appearance of the modern German flag and was an important precursor to 1848?
What is the Hambach Festival?
Bismarck famously declared, "The great questions of the time will not be resolved by speeches and majority decisions," but by...
What is "iron and blood"?
Cavour was the first person to hold this high governmental position in the Kingdom of Italy when it was declared in 1861.
What is Prime Minister?
This pope, initially a liberal, became a staunch conservative opposed to Italian unification.
Who was Pope Pius IX?
This economic union, founded in 1815, is considered both a successor to the Holy Roman Empire and a precursor to the German Empire.
What is the German Confederation?
This city hosted the main assembly that attempted to hash out a constitution for a new Germany in 1848 and 1849.
What is Frankfurt?
In 1864, Prussia (allied with Austria) attacked Denmark to seize this largely ethnically German province.
What is Schleswig-Holstein?
In 1855, Cavour maneuvered the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia into this war, fought in southern Russia, in order to increase its stature among European nations.
What is the Crimean War?
This movement, founded in 1831 by Giuseppe Mazzini, was the first mass republican and nationalist movement in modern Italian history?
What is Young Italy?
This war, fought between 1870 and 1871, is generally reckoned to be the final stage in German unification.
What is the Franco-Prussian War?
These exiled revolutionaries, such as Franz Siegel, Carl Schurz, and August Willich, frequently wound up in leading positions in the abolitionist movement, the Civil War-era Union Army, and the Republican Party in the U.S.?
Who were the Red '48ers?
This political entity, set up after the Austro-Prussian War, included all the German states except Wuerttemberg, Baden, and Bavaria?
What is the North German Confederation?
This is Cavour's real name.
What is Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso?
This treaty, signed in 1929, resolved the "Roman Question" of the disputed claims to the city by the Papacy and the Kingdom of Italy.
What is the Lateran Treaty?
What did Prussia, Bavaria, Wuerttemberg, and Saxony have in common in the German Empire?
All remained kingdoms within the empire.