Post New Nationalism/Unification Themes- 1871 to 1914

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Post New Nationalism/Unification Themes- 1871 to
1914

• Full franchise/suffrage
• Womens suffrage movement grew
• New Nationalist Conservative Leaders Increase
  Intl Tension
• Attempts to win over domestic mob often pits
  countries against each other
• Rising tariffs, for example
• Growing Persecution of Minority Groups
• An outgrowth of nationalism and Social Darwinism
• Rise of the Welfare State
• Prussia first
• Conservative Nationalist effort to maintain
  popular support
• Revisionists versus Marxists
• Revisionists
• Real wages are going up for workers
• Marx was wrong
• We must revise Marx to work within the system
• Social programs and Unions
• Marxists
• The revisionists are bourgeois toadies! When the
  revolution comes, we will slit your throats, too.
  
• Many socialists will choose nationalism in WWI

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Cooks Tour of Late 19th Century Europe


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Germany

• Unified
• Exploding industrialization
• the arms of Krupp
• Strong Socialist Movements
• Bismarck Responds, Increasing social programs
• Germany has first anywhere
• social security
• Kaiser William II is a foolish fool who foolishly
  fires Bismarck

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France

• French Humiliation
• Napoleon III had fallen
• Loss of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany
• Liberals/Radicals in Paris revolt (Paris
  Commune) but were crushed by conservative forces
• France as Republic
• Unity for a while, but damaged by Dreyfus Affair
• That story is in a later lecture
• Conservatives and Liberal/Radicals were at odds
  as WWI approached

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England

• Splendid Isolation
• Focus on Atlantic economy (and eventually
  imperialism)
• Growing suffrage and liberal reforms
• Irish problem
• Protestant Ulsterites v Catholic
• No Home Rule poster

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Austria-Hungary

• Dual monarchy
• Torn by conflicting national ambitions
• True also of Ottoman Empire!

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Russia

• Not truly modern
• Like Austria-Hungary, weakened by nationalism
• Further weakened by backwardness and serfdom
• 90 are agricultural
• Open field system
• Loss of Crimean War Forces Russia to Make Tough
  Steps Toward Modernization
• Proof of European Balance of Power desires to
  keep Russia weak
• Also touched off by holy land issue
• Serf system change to communal land system still
  inefficient
• This was an attempt to prevent a flood to the
  cities of landless Proletariat, who, as weve
  seen, are a destabilizing force

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Russia (Continued)

• Assassination of Tsar Alexander II Ended
  Political Modernization
• Economic modernization continued
• Trans Siberian Railroad
• 4th leading world producer of Steel
• Half of the worlds oil
• 1905 Revolution
• Sparked by ultra-humiliating loss to Japan
• Bloody Sunday
• Revolution follows the pattern revolutionaries
  cant agree
• Duma set up, but rigged so that it was basically
  just a mouthpiece for the Tsar

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USA

• Manifest Destiny
• Completed by defeat of Mexico and Northern
  victory in the Civil War
• Exploding industrialization
• Perhaps built on the backs of slave cotton
• U.S. Becomes a World Player

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Hansen Name ____________________AP Euro
Post New Nationalism/Unification Themes
1871-1914 ( Note-Taking Guide)

• Broad Themes
• Full franchise/suffrage
• ________________________ movement grew
• New Nationalist Conservative Leaders Increase
  _______________ _________________
• Attempts to win over ______________ often
  ______________ against each other
• ________________________ , for example
• Growing Persecution of __________________________
  
• An outgrowth of nationalism and Social Darwinism
• Rise of the Welfare State
• _____________________
• ______________________________ effort to maintain
  popular support
• Revisionists versus Marxists
• Revisionists
• Real wages ____________________for workers
• ________________________________
• We must revise Marx to work __________________
• Social programs and _____________
• Marxists
• The revisionists are _______________________ !
  When the revolution comes, we will __________
  ____________________, too.

• France as Republic
• Unity for a while, but damaged by ______________
• That story is in a later lecture
• Conservatives and Liberal/Radicals were at odds
  as _________________________
• England
• Splendid Isolation
• _________________________________________
  _________________________________________
• Focus on _____________________ (and eventually
  imperialism)
• Growing suffrage and liberal reforms
• __________________
• Protestant Ulsterites v Catholic
• ___________________________________
• No Home Rule poster
• Austria-Hungary
• __________________________
• Torn by conflicting national ambitions
• True also of Ottoman Empire!
• Russia
• Not truly modern

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• Russia (cont.)
• _____________________________________________
  Ended Political Modernization
• Economic modernization continued
• _____________________ Railroad
• 4th leading world producer ___________
• Half of the worlds oil
• 1905 Revolution
• Sparked by ______________________________________
  _______________________________________________
• Bloody Sunday
• ______________________________________________
  ______________________________________________
• Revolution follows the pattern revolutionaries
  __________ ______________
• _________________ set up, but rigged so that it
  was basically just a mouthpiece
  _____________________
• USA
• _________________________________
• Completed by defeat of Mexico and Northern
  victory in the Civil War
• Exploding industrialization
• Perhaps built on the backs of ___________________
• U.S. Becomes a _________________________