Nationalism Test
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Bismarck | Prime minister of Prussia from 1862 to 1890 |
| Army | Basis of Prussian strength |
| Prime Minister | Bismarck's official position |
| Kaiser | Title of the German emperor |
| Prussia | Dominant state in the new German union of 1867 |
| Austria | Major rival of Prussia for German leadership |
| Papal | Italian states ruled by the pope |
| Sicily | Large island at the southern end of Italy |
| Rome | City ruled by the pope until 1870 |
| Industry | Economic base of northern Italy |
| Agriculture | Economic base of southern Italy |
| Mafia | Secret society formed by local strong men in Sicily |
| Austrian Empire | Dominant power of Central Europe |
| Hapsburg | Ruling family of Austria |
| Hungary | Region that joined equally with Austria in 1867 |
| Austria Hungary | the Dual Monarchy |
| nationalism | feeling of loyalty and patriotism toward a country, strong in Central Europe |
| Autocracy | Russian from of government under the tsars |
| serfdom | Institution abolished by the tsar in 1861 |
| Emancipation | Freedom from serfdom |
| Assassination | Cause of Alexander's death |
| terrorists | Radicals who favored bombings and political killings |
| Berlin | Capital of the German Empire |
| Franco Prussian | France's war against Prussia in 1870 |
| Industry | Foundation of Germany's strong economy |
| socialists | Reformers strongly opposed by Bismarck |
| Franco Prussian War | Event engineered by Bismarck to make the southern German states allies of the north |
| Denmark | Northern country Prussia and Austria fought in 1864 |
| Pope | The self-proclaimed "prisoner of the Vatican" |
| Rome | capital of the kingdom of Italy |
| Garibaldi | Leader who liberated southern Italy |
| two sicilies | Kingdom of the lower half of Italy |
| Red shirts | Garibaldi's army |
| Naples | Southern capital seized by Garibaldi and his army |
| Magyar | Majority population and language of Hungary |
| German | Dominant nationality and language of Austria |
| Ottoman Empire | Dominant power in the Balkans in the 1860s |
| Sick Man of Europe | Nickname for the Ottoman Empire |
| Autocracy | The Ottoman type of government |
| Russia | Country that defeated the Ottoman Empire in 1878 |
| Mediterranean | Russia wanted access to this sea |
| russification | Program that forced non-Russians to adopt Russian culture and customs |
| Pan-Slavism | Policy that favored the union of all Slavic peoples |
| Crimean | War Russia fought against France, Great Britain, and the Ottoman Empire in 1855-56 |
| Black Sea | Body of water that bordered the Crimea |
| field hospitals | the only real benefit of the Crimean War |
| Iron Chancellor | Bismarck's nickname, from is statement that he would unite Germany by "blood and iron" |
| German Confederation | Union of German states after the Congress of Vienna |
| Seven weeks | Prussia's brief 1866 war against Austria |
| Junkers | Conservative aristocratic landowners |
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