19th Century European Politics

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19th Century European Politics

• WH II 7 The student will demonstrate knowledge
  of political and philosophical developments in
  Europe during the nineteenth century by
• assessing the impact of Napoleon and the Congress
  of Vienna, including changes in political
  boundaries in Europe after 1815.
• describing the influence of revolutions on the
  expansion of political rights in Europe.
• explaining events related to the unification of
  Italy and the role of Italian nationalists
• explaining events related to the unification of
  Germany and the role of Bismarck.

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Europe under Napoleon 1810
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The Congress of Vienna

• The Players
• Prince Metternich
• Austria
• Viscount Castlereagh
• Great Britain
• Tsar Alexander I
• Russia
• Prince von Hardenberg
• Prussia
• Charles Talleyrand
• France
• 3 Goals
• Peace
• Balance of Power
• Legitimacy

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Europe following the Congress
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The Age of Metternich

• New Politics
• Conservatism
• Tradition Stability
• Liberalism
• Freedom to Change Rights
• Conservative Europe
• Why Conservatism?
• Aristocracy
• Violence of Liberalism
• Geographic Needs
• Political Conservatism
• Holy Alliance
• Carlsbad Decrees
• Challenges to Metternich
• Liberalism
• Political Economic
• Nationalism
• Cultural Unity?
• Self-Determination

Klemens von Metternich
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872)
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Revolutions of 1848

• Causes
• Liberalism
• Universal Male Suffrage
• Nationalism
• Greece
• 1827
• Economics Politics
• Republicans
• Democrats
• The Revolutions
• France
• Austria
• Germany
• Italy
• The Results

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Italian Unification

• French Influences
• Risorgimento
• Mazzini and Young Italy
• 1848
• Cavour, Italian Patriot
• Napoleon III and the Austrian War
• How it went wrong

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• Guiseppe Garibaldi
• A Red Shirt Invasion
• Garibaldi and Cavour
• King Victor Emanuel II, 3/17/1861
• A little help from your foes

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Unified Germany

• Prussia Germany??
• Help from Napoleon
• Prussia v/s Austria
• The Zollverein
• Junkers
• 1848
• Bismarck
• Blood and Iron
• Realpolitik

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• Wars for Unity
• The Danish War
• Seven Weeks War
• The Franco-Prussian War
• The Ems Telegram
• Formation of an Empire, 1/18/1871
• The Hall of Mirrors
• Bundesrat und Reichstag

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Uniting a People

• Papal Infallibility and the Kulturkampf 1870-1887
• Social Democratic Party
• If ya cant beat em Join em
• 2 Kaisers and Bismarcks goodbye

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The Austrian Empire

• Abdication and a Dual Monarchy
• Too many Peoples
• The Ottomans
• The Balkans
• The Congress of Berlin and the Balkan Wars
• The Balkan League

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Russian Change

• Russification and Pan Slavism
• Alexander II
• Emancipation Edict
• Zenstvos
• Seeds of Revolution
• Peoples Will 1881
• Sunday, Bloody Sunday 1905

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Reform in Britain

• Liberality for All
• Reform Act of 1832
• Chartism
• Reform for the 20th Century
• Women

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Changes in France

• Dont the French Ever learn?
• The Citizen King
• 2nd Empire
• Crimea and Mexico
• Those evil Prussians
• The 3rd Republic
• The Dreyfus Case