Vocabulary
Otto von Bismarck
Before Otto
Wars
Italian Unification
France
100
This word means emperor, it is derived from the name of this emperor of Ancient Rome. Double the points for both answers.
What is Kaiser? (and) Who is Julius Caesar?
100
The state Bismarck represented as prime minister
What is Prussia?
100
As a result of uprisings and revolutions in Germany (and throughout Europe) in 1848, he verbally agreed (promised) to meet demonstrators' demands, including parliamentary elections, a constitution, and freedom of the press.
Who is Fredric Wilhelm IV?
100
The first war waged by Otto Von Bismarck was against this country due to the question of control over two border states; Schleswig-Holstein.
What is Denmark?
100
Known as impractical idealist who only wanted to unite Italy under a republic, he had been exiled because of his outspoken nationalism, but he smuggled his patriotic pamphlets into Italy where they ignited and inspired nationalism.
Who is Mazzini? THE HEART
100
Brother to Louis 16th and Uncle to Louis 17th he regained the throne, only to leave it again during the 100 days. Eventually his reign was restored by the Congress of Vienna. He granted the French people a consitution with many liberal reforms and rights. He considered it a gift.
Your answer must contain the Correct Roman Numerals.
Who is Louis XVIII?
200
Always a statesman, Otto von Bismarck was practical and didn't let ideals get in the way of his main goal of unifying Germany. Practicing this he developed policies based on the interests of his country.
What is realpolitik?
200
The man who appointed Bismarck to prime minister.
Who is Wilhelm I?
200
Before this, customs duties needed to be paid at every state border which was a disincentive to trade. After this economic policy was established in 1834 many German states were now encouraged to trade with one another.
What is the Zollverein?
200
This leader was on the opposing side of a military conflict that started because of the disputed territories of Alsace and Lorraine, as well as a request to have Wilhelm I's cousin sit on the throne of Spain.
Who is Napoleon III?
200
He was Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia who was the logical, skillful and pragmatic thinker. He focused on uniting Italy under his King.
For Double Points: Who is the King?
Who is Count Cavour?
Who is Victor Emmanuel II
200
King of France from 1830-1848; he came to power after the July revolution and he was known as the "citizen king" for showing an interest in the working class and having much in common with the middle class. That didn't last long, as he catered his government to the wealthy elites.
Who is Louis Philippe?
300
This office within the Empire was first occupied by Otto von Bismarck in 1871. In this role he was chief minister of state; like a prime minister. Hitler would later hold the same office from 1933-1945, and today this office is occupied by Angela Merkel.
What is the office of Chancellor?
300
In a speech to the German national assembly Bismarck suggested that it wasn't speeches and majority voting that would unify Germany but these two things.
What are "blood and iron?"
300
This body of leaders and diplomats of various countries (inc. Austria, Russia, England, France etc.) separated Germany into 39 states in order to maintain a balance of power throughout Europe.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
300
The Kingdom of Italy was finally awarded Venetia after assisting Prussia in this war that lasted "about" 49 days. (Although they were given it by way of France.)
What is the Austro-Prussian war / Seven Weeks War?
300
This colorful group took over the Kingdom of Two Sicilies?
For double points: Name their leader
For Triple points: Who did they take it over from (who was in power there prior to the campaign?)
Who are the Red Shirts?
2x: Who is Garibaldi
3x: Spanish Bourbon Kings
300
This person wrote Les Misérables, a French historical novel, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th Century. It featured the June Rebellion of 1832 as a backdrop to one of its main scenes - "Do you hear the people sing? Singing the songs of angry men. It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again."
Who is Victor Hugo?
400
It is the meaning of the word Reich.
What is Empire/Realm? (I will also accept kingdom)
400
After becoming emperor, this person pushed Otto von Bismarck to resign from his position in March of 1890.
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm II?
400
This was the First Reich. At times it included modern-day Germany, Switzerland, Austria, parts of Italy, and the Netherlands. Making it a thousand year Reich it stretched from 800 - 1806, until it was dissolved by Napoleon.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
400
Kaiser Wilhelm II was Emperor of Germany during this war? For double the points name the Kaiser who came before Wilhelm II?
What is World War I?
2x = Who is Fredrick III?
400
This duchy was ruled over by Marie Louise (Napoleon's 2nd Wife) before plebiscites caused it to become part of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia
What is Parma?
400
Romantic artist Eugene Delacroix's oil painting, titled ______________ Leading the People" (1830) commemorates the July Revolution in Paris that removed Charles X, from the throne.
Who is Liberty?
500
Coming to a head in 1848, this was a nationalist political idea whose aim it was to unify all the German states and possibly also all Germanic-speaking peoples into a single nation-state.
What is Pan-Germanism?
500
This term refers to power struggles between the emerging German Empire and the Roman Catholic Church over the place and role of religion in modern politics.
What is kulturkampf?
500
When Napoleon Bonaparte was in control of the area that is now Germany, he setup this confederation of client states named after a river in Germany.
What is the Confederation of the Rhine? Or simply the River Rhine.
500
A Peace treaty of the Franco-Prussian war in 1871 finally unified Northern and Southern Germany and Wilhelm I was proclaimed Emperor in this location. Huh! Huh! Huh! Huh!
What is the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
500
This final hold out to unification, central to the Catholic Church, was protected by Napoleon III's troops until they were recalled to protect Paris from the invading Prussian/German troops of Bismarck in 1870-71.
What is Rome/Papal States/Vatican?
500
The Three Glorious Days is also known as the ______________ Revolution of this month of 1830, in which Charles X was forced to abdicate. Double points if you can name those supporters who are consider loyal advocates of Charles X and strong belief in an absolute monarchy.
What is July?
2x: Who are the Ultras?
600
Anti-semitic or Anti-semitism is hatred or bias against people of Jewish background. It came to a head in France during this event.
2x points if you can name the movement by Theodor Herzl to establish a Jewish state that arose out of this event.
Dreyfus affair - A scandal that rocked France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Dreyfus affair involved a Jewish artillery captain in the French army, Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), who was falsely convicted of passing military secrets to the Germans.
2x = Zionism
600
Bismarck's diplomacy of realpolitik and powerful rule at home gained him the nickname the "____________ Chancellor"
"Iron Chancellor"
600
These were a set of reactionary restrictions introduced in the states of the German Confederation to limit student protest and demands for liberal reforms. It tried to silence groups like Young Germany.
Carlsbad Decrees
600
Italians joined Austrians, British and French in this military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia. The immediate cause involved the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was a part of the Ottoman Empire. It helped Cavour gain much needed allies.
Crimean War
600
What two Northern portions of Italy did Napoleon agree to help the Italians free from Austrian rule? He stabbed Cavour in the back when he neglected to follow through with the second.
What are Venetia & Lombardy?
600
In this year revolutions broke out all over Paris, and consequently the entirety of Europe. "If France sneezes, Europe catches a cold." It is this year that the "citizen king" was forced to abdicate and a vote elected Louis Napoleon as President of the 2nd Republic.
What is 1848?