HWH UNIT 7 CHAPTER 11.3
Success and Popularity Economic prosperity Suez Canal Redesigned Paris Help for the lower class “Socialist Emperor” Limits on Liberty No democracy Censorship The “Liberal Empire” Loosened restrictions in 1860s
Disastrous Foreign Policy Crimean War, 1853 Intervention in Italy, 1859 Intervention in Mexico, 1863 Franco-Prussian War, 1870
The last piece of German unification
National Assembly created after fall of Napoleon III The Commune refused to recognize the new National Assembly Wanted a socialist government Assembly sent an army to crush the Commune
Bicameral Legislature Senate Chamber of Deputies President (figurehead) Premier (prime minister) Many political parties Coalitions Unstable 50 governments in 10 years Official separation of Church and State (1905) Few rights for women
The Boulanger Affair ( ) Revanche! The Dreyfus Affair ( )
The real traitor: Count Esterhazy
Theodor Herzl Desire for a Jewish state in Israel Fueled by Dreyfus affair and antisemitism across Europe