Germany and Italy Russia Causes of World War I Balkan Powder Keg Wild Card
Prime minister who pushed for Italian unification
Count Cavour
Chancellor who pushed for German unification
Otto von Bismarck
Country that led the German unification movement
Prussia
Country that led the Italian unification movement
Sardinia
German country excluded from the German unification movement
Austria
Forcing non-Russians to adopt the Russian culture
Russification
Czar assassinated after making reform attempts
Alexander II
Murders and persecutions of Jews in Russia
Pogroms
Reforms of Alexander II
Trial by jury; Emancipation Edict; local assemblies (zemstvos); reduced military service
Because the army stayed loyal to the tsar; France loaned Russia money; and, the revolutionaries were divided.
Why the 1905 Revolution failed
Wanting to gain colonies
Imperialism
Glorification of armed strength
Militarism
Trying to unite under a government of your own people
Nationalism
Triple Alliance members
Germany, Austria- Hungary, Italy
Triple Entente members
Great Britain, Russia, France
Wanted to unite with their people in Austria-Hungary and enlarge their country
Serbia
Assassinated
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
How did the Triple Alliance threaten Great Britain?
Suez Canal endangered by German interests in the Balkans
Who did Britain support in the Mediterranean against Russia before the Triple Alliance formed?
Ottoman Empire
2 new Slavic countries created from Austria- Hungary after World War I
Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
Wars fought to unify Germany
Danish War, Seven Weeks War, Franco-Prussian War
Countries Prussia fought to unify Germany
Denmark, Austria, France
Methods used to industrialize
Centralize postal, telegraph services; form cartels; standardize money and banking laws; high tariffs
Treaty that pulled Russia out of World War I
Brest-Litovsk
Catholic church plan to unite Italy
Under the Pope