French Revolution
This king of France ruled during the French Revolution. He was eventually declared an enemy of the revolution and executed by guillotine.
Who was Louis XVI?
In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself this as the new ruler of France.
What is an emperor?
A political ideology that emphasizes intense devotion and loyalty to one’s own people, culture, and heritage.
What is nationalism?
This individual was the main force in unifying Germany into one nation.
Who was Otto von Bismarck?
The estate in French society that the Middle Class was part of before the French Revolution.
What is the Third Estate?
This estate of the Estates General was burdened with having to pay the majority of the taxes in French society.
What was the Third Estate?
Invaded by Napoleon and his army in 1812, this European country fiercely resisted and were ultimately saved by the harsh Winter and the lack of supplies for Napoleon’s army.
What is Russia?
This European country was formed out of the southern regions of the Netherlands. Differences in their religion and language led to their division.
What is Belgium?
This individual was declared to be the emperor of the German Reich (empire) after Germany was united.
Who was Kaiser Wilhelm I?
What Napoleon Bonaparte portrayed himself as when he conquered a country. Despite this, he gave members of his family power as the new rulers.
What is a liberator?
This estate of the Estates General consisted of the nobility and the elites of French society.
What was the Second Estate?
Created by Napoleon Bonaparte, this organized all the laws created during the French Revolution.
What was Code Napoleon?
This nation crushed the independence movement in Poland in 1830.
What is Russia?
This individual was declared the first king of unified Italy.
Who was Victor Emmanuel II?
This prison-fortress was a symbol of French royal authority and was stormed on July 14, 1789 by the people of Paris. This event is still celebrated every year in France.
What was the Bastille?
This French philosopher spread ideas of the Enlightenment throughout French society before the French Revolution.
Who was Voltaire?
The European country that Napoleon Bonaparte attempted to block trade with.
What is England/Great Britain?
This empire had ruled over Greece for hundreds of years but was finally defeated in the Greek war for independence which made Greece a free country.
What was the Ottoman Empire?
The final and most important conflict of the wars of German unification. This conflict was orchestrated by Bismarck to unite all the German states.
What was the Franco-Prussian War?
Taken by the National Assembly, this vow promised that they would not leave until they had created a constitution for France.
What was the Tennis Court Oath?
This French government was led by Maximillian Robespierre and ruled during the Reign of Terror in which 25,000 – 40,000 people were executed.
What was the Committee of Public Safety?
The famous battle in 1815 where Napoleon was defeated which led to his final exile.
What was the Battle of Waterloo?
A theory of what has gone wrong in a society and how it should be fixed through political means. People often seek to use this to create “heaven on earth”.
What is political ideology?
The individual who most successfully led the efforts to unify Italy into one nation.
Who was Camillo di Cavour?
A French word that means “a sudden and illegal seizure of power”. Napoleon Bonaparte did this in his overthrow of the French Directory.
What is a coup d’état?