Nationalism and Unification

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Italy became an officially united nation in 1860 and created a

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parliamentary monarchy led by Victor Emmanuel.

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All of the following were employed by Bismarck in the unification of Germany EXCEPT: waging war against Austria to drive it out of German affairs, collecting taxes for army reform without the Reichstag’s approval, annexing German states to Prussia to form the Northern German Confederation, goading France into war by editing the Ems Dispatch.

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supporting the Polish rebellion against Russia to advance nationalism

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Which of the following nation-building reforms among the great powers is INCORRECT? France – expansion of credit and transportation, Great Britain – regulation of factories and public health, Russia – creation of local assemblies, Austria-Hungary – independence for Slavic minorities, Germany – adoption of universal male suffrage

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Austria-Hungary – independence for Slavic minorities

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The importance of Giuseppe Mazzini to Italian history was his

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zeal for Italian nationalism

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Although the ostensible cause of the Crimean War was a dispute over the protection of certain Christian holy sites, the reason Britain and France entered the war was to...

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prevent Russia from upsetting the European balance of power.

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Which of the following countries was the first to implement a social welfare system? France, Sweden, Germany, Great Britain

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Germany

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Bismarck's program of kulturkampf had as its primary goal

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the suppression of Catholic political influence.

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An important consequence of the creation of Dual Monarchy of Austro-Hungary in 1867 was

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that a weakened Habsburg dynasty retained its most important ethnic minority.

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Which of the states listed below faced nationalistic or independence movements of ethnic groups within their borders at the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century? I. Britain II. Germany III. The Ottoman Empire IV. France

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I. Britain and III. The Ottoman Empire

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After serfdom was abolished in Russia in 1861, Russian communities came to be regulated politically through

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