Napoleon III or Louis Napoleon: Nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. Believed that gov. should represent the people and help them economically.
Metternich: Austrian conservative leader.
Napoleonic ideas and The Elimination of poverty: Written by Louis Napoleon to attempt to over through the Louis Phillipes government.
More Louis Napoleon (pretty important dude): Came to power in the elections of December 1848. He was both a success and a failure. Economically his government encouraged expansion.
1851: Louis Napoleon illegally dismisses assembly.
Guiseppe Mazzini: patriotic Italian leader, he preached a republican democracy based on universal male suffrage.
Gioberti: A catholic Priest who called for a united confederation governed by the Pope.
Victor Emmanuel: Leader of Sardinia. Who under pressure retained civil liberties granted by the constitution of 1848?
Pius IX: Pope who strongly denounced rationalism, socialism, and separation of church and state.
Syllabus of Errors: Written by Pius to express his views.
Cavour: Brilliant statesmen, who worked to unify Sardinia, allied with Napoleon of France. Unified northern Italy, by sucking up to Victor Emmanuel.
Garibaldi: Leader of the red shirts, a daring leader of the people who further unified Italy.
Fredrick William IV: Made a halfhearted attempt to unify Germany.
William I: Sought to widen the strength and power of the army
Bismarck: Unifies Germany and rewrites the book on diplomacy.
Austro-Prussian War: German war with Austria to limit their future power sought to subdue but not decimate them.
Franco-Prussian War: Germany War with France, to repress any ideas they had about Spain.
United States: Divided into slave and free starts.
Civil War: Fought to free the slaves and preserve the American union.
Reforms in Russia: Attempts to industrialize, Abolish Serfdom,
Zemstvo: Local Russian Government.
Alexander II: Czar of Russia who spear headed the industrialization, and was assianated by a small group. Of terrorists.
Crimean War: War over Russia constant warm water port problem. France and England teamed up to beat Russia.
Sergai Witte: Russian Minister of finance.
trans-Siberian railroad: Runs form St. Petersburg to Vladivosstok.
Russo-Japanese War: War in which Russia was embarrassed by the Japanese army.
Bloody Sunday: Workers March on Czar Nicholas II Palace and were fired on.
October Manifesto: Written by Nicholas II, which promised a Duma and basic Civil rights.
Reichstag: German Upper house.
Kulterkomph: Written by Bismarck attacking the catholic church.
Papal infallibility: Issued by Pius IX saying the church could do nothing wrong.
Dreyfus Case: A Jewish man wrongly considered a traitor.
Paris Commune: Gave Germany Alsace Lorraine.
National Assembly: French assembly, which was opposed to giving up land.
On Liberty: Written by John Stuart Mill tried to offer an explanation to electoral problems.
Diserali: Extended Vote to all middle classes.
Third reform Bill: All men right to vote.
People's budget: Tax rich, give to poor.
George: Implemented people's budget.
Ulsterites: Resisted home rule.
Magyars: Hungarian Nobility.
Francis Joseph: Tried to centralize Austria and Hungary.
Critique of political economy: Marx's book which dug deeply into economic theory.
International Working Mans Association: Organization of unions
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