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Napoleon III

Count Cavour

Otto von Bismarck

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This international meeting created the

“rules” for the “scramble for Africa.”

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What is the

Berlin Conference (1884-85)?

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Britain’s conquest of this country became

the model for the “new imperialism.”

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What is Egypt?

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These two African countries were the only remaining free

states by 1914.

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What are Liberia and Ethiopia?

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This crisis over control of the Sudan nearly led to a war

between Britain and France.

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What is the

Fashoda Crisis?

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This notable critic of imperialism claimed that Europe was abandoning its principles of human

dignity while benefitting little economically.

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Who is J. A. Hobson?

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This German economic union was a major source of friction

between Prussia and Austria.

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What is the Zollverein?

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This war resulted in the final

unification of Germany in 1871.

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What is the Franco-Prussian

War?

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This Italian statesman was the “architect” of

Italian unification after 1850.

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Who is Count Cavour?

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This romantic Italian leader and his Red Shirts unified the

southern part of Italy before giving it to

King Victor Emmanuel.

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Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?

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This conflict convinced Russia that it had fallen way behind the Western powers both militarily

and industrially.

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What is the Crimean War?

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This party became the largest in the German Reichstag

by 1912.

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What is the Social

Democratic Party (SPD)?

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This chancellor initiated the first

social welfare system in European history.

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Who is Otto von Bismarck?

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This militant British feminist led the fight for female suffrage in Britain in the late-19th and early 20th century.

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Who is Emmeline

Pankhurst?

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Edouard Bernstein advocated this

political philosophy (that was seen by purists as a real

sellout!).

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What is socialist

revisionism?

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This scandal nearly tore the French

Republic apart in the 1890s.

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What is the Dreyfus Affair?

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This leader of the “Liberal Empire” in

France established the new model for the nation state in the

second half of the 19th century.

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Who is Napoleon III?

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This nurse became famous for her

battlefield medical work during the

Crimean War.

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Who is Florence Nightingale?

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This monarch became the first king of Italy in

1871.

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Who is Victor Emmanuel?

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This poet wrote the “White Man’s

Burden,” conveying a cynical view of imperialism.

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Who is Rudyard Kipling?

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This pontiff issued the Syllabus of Errors in 1864 while opposing

the unification of Italy.

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Who is Pope Pius IX?

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This Conservative leader in Britain agreed to near-universal male suffrage (he called it a

“leap in the dark.”)

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Who is Benjamin Disraeli?

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This party oversaw the creation of a welfare system in Britain in the early

20th century.

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What is the Liberal Party?

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This 20th-century law gave women age 30 and older

the right to vote in Britain.

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What is the Representation of the People

Act, 1918?

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This dominant Liberal Party Prime Minister

advocated Irish Home Rule in the late-

nineteenth century.

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Who is William Gladstone?

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This Scottish member of Parliament became one of

the founders of the Independent Labour Party (which eventually became

the Labour Party).

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Who is Keir Hardie?

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This was Bismarck’s attempt to suppress Catholics politically.

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What is kulturekampf?

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This group took over the French gov’t briefly after

the end of the Franco-Prussian War and was

defeated in a bloody civil war.

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What is the Paris

Commune?

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This German term refers to the 1867

creation of the Dual Monarchy in the

Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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What is the Ausgleich?

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This new philosophy, developed by Herbert Spencer, seemed to

justify strong countries conquering weaker

ones.

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What is Social Darwinism?

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This Jewish leader advocated Zionism,

the call for the creation of a Jewish

homeland in Palestine.

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Who is Theodore

Herzl?

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This colony was the considered the jewel of

the British Empire.

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Round 2

What is India?

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This violent 1900 conflict in China occurred when

Chinese nationalists sought to expel westerners from China (and even killed a

few diplomats).

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Round 2

What is the Boxer

Rebellion?

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This war resulted in Britain taking control of South Africa from Dutch

descendants.

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What is the Boer War (South

African War)?

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Lord Kitchener led the British army in

slaughtering several thousand Sudanese

warriors at this battle.

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What is the Battle of

Omdurman?

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This leftist political thinker condemned imperialism as an

extension of greedy capitalism.

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Who is Karl Marx?

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Bismarck came from this social class in Prussia.

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What is the Junkers?

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When Bismarck sought to outlaw the SPD, this

new German king demanded his

resignation in 1890.

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Who is Wilhelm II?

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In this famous Bismarckian quote,

“the great questions of the day would be settled by” this.

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What is “blood and iron”?

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This war resulted in Prussia creating the

North German Confederation in 1867,

with most German states included.

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What is the Austro-Prussian

War?

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This war resulted in Prussia and Austria

jointly administering Schleswig and

Holstein.

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What is the Prussian-Danish

War?

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This noble was commissioned by

Napoleon III to help redesign and rebuild

Paris.

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Who is Baron von Haussmann?

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This French financial institution supported

large industrial projects in France during the reign of Napoleon III.

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What is Crédit Mobilier?

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This famous realist author wrote J‘accuse

and helped win Captain Dreyfus his

freedom.

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Who is Émile Zola?

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This French statesman pushed for

secularization of French education and also co-sponsored the Berlin

Conference with Bismarck.

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Who is Jules Ferry?

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This political leader became the first

president of the Third French Republic in the

1870s.

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Who is Adolph Thiers?

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Germany and Italy were unified

in this year.

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What is 1871?

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These are the years for the age of

Realpolitik.

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What are 1848-1871?

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These are the years for the Age of Mass Politics.

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What are 1871-1914?

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Women received the right to vote in

Britain in this year.

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What is 1918?

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This was the year most British men received

the right to vote. It was the year Disraeli took his “leap in the dark.”

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What is 1867?

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The disappointing failure for King

Frederick William IV to unify Germany in 1849 under the grossdeutch plan is known as this.

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What is the Humiliation of

Olmutz?

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This treaty angered Russia because it had defeated the Ottoman

Empire but got nothing in return. (Serbia and Romania became

independent states, though).

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Round 2

What is the Congress of

Berlin?

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This treaty formally ended the Franco-Prussian War and gave Alsace and

Lorraine to Germany.

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What is the Treaty of

Frankfurt?

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This message, sent by Prussia to humiliate France,

bragged that a French diplomat had been dissed by the Prussian King, thus

leading to the Franco-Prussian War.

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What is the Ems Dispatch?

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At this location, Napoleon III promised

Sardinia-Piedmont that he would support an Italian war against Austria (but later

reneged).

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What is Plombières?

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This was the dominant

ethnic/cultural group in Hungary.

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Who are the Magyars?

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This is the name for united Germany’s

parliament.

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What is the Reichstag?

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This political organization in Great Britain became the driving force behind

socialist revisionism in the 1880s, before there

was a Labour Party.

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What is the Fabian Society?

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This region of northern Ireland was staunchly opposed to Irish Home

Rule, and even threatened to fight to

prevent it.

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What is Ulster?

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This Belgian king had the Congo taken away from

him by the Belgian parliament because the people of the Congo had been treated so poorly.

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Who is Leopold II?

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This famous British feminist used the political and legal

system (not militant tactics) to

successfully advocate for female suffrage.

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