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Palmer CH13 - K.E.
Palmer Chapter 13 Terms.
Question | Answer |
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Irredentism - Irredentist | a member of a party in any country advocating the acquisition of some region included in another country by reason of cultural, historical, ethnic, racial, or other ties. |
Nihilism | total rejection of established laws and institutions. |
Risorgimento | the period of or the movement for the liberation and unification of Italy 1750–1870. |
Austroslavism | political concept and program aimed to solve problems of Slavic peoples in the Austrian Empire. |
Extraterritoriality | immunity from the jurisdiction of a nation, granted to foreign diplomatic officials, foreign warships, etc. |
Garibaldi | a loose blouse worn by women and children in the mid-19th century, made in imitation of the red shirts worn by the soldiers of Garibaldi. |
Bismarck | 1815–98, German statesman: first chancellor of modern German Empire 1871–90. |
Zollverein | (in the 19th century) a union of German states for the maintenance of a uniform tariff on imports from other countries, and of free trading among themselves. |
mir | a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia. |
Meiji era | is a Japanese era which extended from September 1868 through July 1912. |
Dual Monarch | Dual monarchy occurs when two separate kingdoms are ruled by the same monarch, follow the same foreign policy, exist in a customs union with each other and have a combined military but are otherwise self-governing. |
Peace of Paris 1856 | The Treaty of Paris of 1856 settled the Crimean War between Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire, Second French Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. |
von Moltke | Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf[1] von Moltke (26 October 1800, Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin – 24 April 1891) was a German Field Marshal. |
Nechaiev | (October 2, 1847 – November 21 or December 3, 1882) was a Russian revolutionary associated with the Nihilist movement and known for his single-minded pursuit of revolution by any means necessary, including political violence. |
Ausgleich | the agreement (1867) that established the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary |
zemstvo | one of a system of elected local assemblies established in 1864 by Alexander II to replace the authority of the nobles in administering local affairs after the abolition of serfdom: became the core of the liberal movement from 1905 to 1917. |
Third Republic | the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940. |
Third Section | Office created in 1826 by Tsar Nicholas I to conduct secret police operations. |
Catechism of a Revolution | a manifesto written by Russian revolutionary Sergey Nechayev between April and August 1869. |
Cavour | 1810–61, Italian statesman: leader in the unification of Italy. |
Bakunin | 1814–76, Russian anarchist and writer. |
autocracy | government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch. |
Slavophilism | one of a group of mid-19th century Russian intellectuals who favored traditional cultural practices over Western innovations, especially in political and religious life. |
dominion | the power or right of governing and controlling; sovereign authority. |
British North America Act | 1867–1975 are the original names of a series of Acts at the core of the constitution of Canada. They were enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom and the Parliament of Canada. |
Victor Emmanuel II | 1820–78, king of Sardinia 1849–78; first king of Italy 1861–78. |
Hohenzollern family | The House of Hohenzollern is a noble family and royal dynasty of electors, kings and emperors of Prussia, Germany and Romania. |
Ems dispatch | caused France to declare the Franco-Prussian War in July 1870. |
intelligentsia | intellectuals considered as a group or class, especially as a cultural, social, or political elite. |
Realpolitik | political realism or practical politics, especially policy based on power rather than on ideals. |
Lassalle | 1825–64, German socialist and writer. |
Herzen | 1812--70, Russian socialist political philosopher: best known for his autobiography My Past and Thoughts (1861--67) |