Germany, Italy, and the Road to WWI

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Germany, Italy, and the Road to WWI

• Mr. Corrigan
• Review Slides

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Important People

• Germany
• Otto von Bismarck
• Kaiser Wilhelm I
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Austria-Hungary
• Emperor Francis I
• Clemens von Metternich
• Emperor Franz Joseph
• For. Min. Leopold von Berchtold
• Gavrilo Princip
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• Italy
• Giuseppe Mazzini
• King Victor Emmanuel II
• (King Victor Emmanuel III)
• Count Camillo Cavour
• Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Russia
• Tsar Alexander II
• Tsar Alexander III
• Tsar Nicholas II

France ? Napoleon III
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Important Quotes

• Water rats do not fight with land rats
• A chance to render Serbia innocuous
• Ideas grow quickly when watered
• Only through liberty, equality, and fraternal
  solidarity
• Powder keg of Europe
• Rule and change nothing
• The spark that ignited the war

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Important Places

• Alsace Lorraine
• Bosnia Herzogovina
• Sarajevo
• Kingdom of Sardinia
• Kingdom of Two Sicilies
• Prussia
• Serbia

• Balkans
• Ottoman Empire
• Belgium

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Important Terms

• Dual Monarchy
• 3 Alliance / 3 Entente
• Schlieffen Plan
• Black Hand
• Russification
• Ultimatum

• Risorgimento
• Realpolitik
• Bloody Sunday
• Trans-Siberian RxR
• Duma
• Revolution of 1905

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Important Terms

• Brinkmanship
• Water rats
• Two-Front War
• Pogroms
• Blank Check

• Frankfurt Assembly
• North German Confed.
• Bundesrat /Reichstag
• Ems Dispatch
• Reasons for F-P War

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Important Conflicts

• Wars of Italian Independence 1 2
• Crimean War (1855)
• Russo-Turkish War (1878)
• Bosnian Crisis (1908)
• Russo-Japanese War
• Balkan Wars 1 2

• Prussia vs. Denmark
• Prussia vs. Austria
• Franco-Prussian War
• Reasons for war
• Battle of Sedan
• Treaty of Frankfurt