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Crimean War | (1854-1856) the French and English went tow ard to prevent the Russians form establishing dominance over the Black sea possessions of the Ottomans, was costly on all sides |
Bismarck | Junker, Chancellor of Germany; sucessfully unified Germany. practice Realpolitik, is conservative. |
Napoleon III | original Napoleon's nephew; consolidated conservative gov and the ideals of nationalism |
French Impressionism | brought the artist's personal visual experience to paintings |
Austrian-Prussian War | 1866 (Seven Week's War) broke out when the issue of the war with Denmark remained unresolved |
Franco-Prussian War | 1870 broke out after a dynastic dispute over the Spanish throne led to a flurry of diplomatic exchanges between Prussia and France |
Treaty of Frankfurt | The end of the Franco-Prussian War. Aliace and Lurraine given to Germany |
Dreyus Affair | (1894-1906) a Jewish Army captain was falsely accused of spying antirepublic conservatives was one instance of the political infighting that often paralyzed government |
Paris Commune | (March 18 – May 28, 1871) Insurrection of Paris against the French government |
Fall of 2nd Republic | defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and was replaced by the Third Republic. |
French Indochina | Former name (until 1950) for the eastern part of mainland Southeast Asia |
Kulturkanpf | "Culture conflict." The name was given to Bismarck's attack on the catholic church in Germany, which has come to refer to conflict between church and state anywhere. |
End of Bismarck | Kaiser Wilhilm II, dismiss Bismarck as chancellor, he hated his relationship with Russian |
Austria - and anti-sentism | Most powerful in Vienna led by Karl Lueger, he was mayor of Vienna. Imperial Vienna was a brilliant center of European culture, home to insidious Germans |
Italian Unification | aka Risorgimento, the period or the movement for liberation and political unification of Italy beginning about 1750-1870 |
Cavour, Mazzini, Carribald | Mazzini- Italian patriot, politician, and founder of young Italy; helped bring modern Italian in place of the several separate state Garibalde - (1807-82) An Italian radical who merged as a powerful independent force in italian politics. He plans to libe |
Emancipation of Serf | proclaimed in 1861 to avoid revolt the peasants following the Crimean war to provide a labor force for industry |
Assassination of czar | By poles (polish) b/c Alexander II suppresd the polish. --> January uprising then thousands of poles executed |
Modernization | The far-reaching process by which nations move from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristics of more developed societies |
Sergei Witte | He was a Russian finance minister who oversaw the construction of the Transiberian line,reformed commercial law, protected new industries, supported steamship and nautical engineering, brought foreign investors to Russia, and established saving bands |
Russo-Japanese War | armed conflict between Russia and Japan in 1904-5. The cause of the war was that Russian expansion in eastern Asia ran counter to Japanese plans for gaining a foothold on the Asia mainland. Japan won |
Bloody Sunday | (1905) Massacre of peaceful demonstrators in Saint Petersburg, marking the beginning of the Russian revolution of 1905 |
Duma | Popular Parliament |
Pogroms | organized massacre of jews |