The Balance of Power
This country was the dominant power in Europe for the majority of the 19th century.
What is Great Britain?
Otto von Bismarck's first speech to the Prussian Parliament (1862).
What is "Iron and Blood"?
Unified in 1871.
What is Germany?
Fought in 1815 between the British and the Prussians v. the French, this battle was the official end to Napoleon I's reign.
What was the Battle of Waterloo?
The most popular method of waging revolution across Europe in the 1830s-1840s.
What is the barricade?
These countries made up the Five Great Powers between 1815-1871.
What were Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, and Austria.
This 1789 pamphlet by the Abbé Sieyès was a main impetus for the creation of the National Assembly.
What is What is the Third Estate?
Generally seen as the most conservative of the five major powers.
What is Russia?
This war ended in the creation of both the North German Confederation and the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
What is the Austro-Prussian War (1866)?
This European-wide famine (especially for the potato crop) was a major reason for the outbreak of continent-wide revolution in 1848.
What is the Hungry 40s?
The dominant power in Europe beginning in 1871.
What is Germany?
Karl Marx's assessment of Louis-Napoleon in the wake of his coup, declaring himself president for life.
What is The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon?
This country experienced political oppression from the Dutch, especially through unfairly distributed representation in Parliament, and finally gained independence in 1830.
What is Belgium?
This war lasted from 1808-1812 and was one of the primary causes of Napoleon's defeat.
What is the Peninsular War?
He was an anarchist philosopher who wrote Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal.
Who was Peter Kropotkin?
This meeting (1814-1815) reestablished the balance of power in Europe following the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
This painting and the event that inspired it are often seen as the reason the Reign of Terror began.
What is the Death of Marat?
Suffered oppression at the hands of Germany (Prussia, more specifically) and Russia for most of the 19th century.
What is Poland?
In this battle, Napoleon III surrendered to Otto von Bismarck, prompting the creation of the Third French Republic.
What is the Battle of Sedan?
The Constitution of 1791 created a distinction between these two types of citizens, which was based on amount paid in taxes.
What are active and passive citizens?
This war was the final straw for the Concert of Europe, bringing an end to the decades-long collaboration between the 5 major powers.
What was the Crimean War?
Friedrich Engel's assessment of Manchester, England.
What is Conditions of the Working Class in England?
King Frederick Wilhelm IV was the king of this country.
What is Prussia?
This 1805 battle is often seen as Napoleon's greatest victory and inspired a great sense of nationalism amongst French troops.
What is the Battle of Austerlitz?
This was Napoleon's way to inculcate children with the values of Empire and Emperor.
What is the Imperial Catechism?