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European Nationalism: Italian & German Unification

Covers the 19th-century nationalist movements that led to the unification of Italy and Germany, including key figures like Cavour and Bismarck, major wars, and political developments.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

After 1848, European nationalist political figures tended to be

  1. realists, not idealists
  2. idealists, not realists
  3. pacifists
  4. monarchists rather than republicans
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Camillo di Cavour hoped to unify the independent Italian states around

  1. Rome
  2. Piedmont
  3. Trieste
  4. Naples
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The Kingdom of Italy, declared in March 1861, was headed by

  1. Garibaldi
  2. Victor Emmanuel II
  3. Cavour
  4. Napoleon III
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Bismarck intended to achieve his goal of strengthening Prussia's place in international affairs through

  1. liberalism
  2. socialism
  3. realpolitik
  4. compromise
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Otto von Bismarck, Prussian chancellor, is most well known for

  1. continuing to maintain, in spite of political developments, that the Austrian empire was "great by reason of its physical power, greater still by reason of its education and the intelligence which permeates it!"
  2. saying "I cannot make a speech, but I can make Germany."
  3. his attitude that German unification would be achieved "not by speeches and majority resolutions ... but by blood and iron."
  4. being called "the sick man of Europe" in diplomatic circles
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

France was induced to declare war on Prussia in 1871 by the

  1. Problems over the joint rule of Schleswig and Holstein
  2. Russians
  3. Ems telegraph dispatch
  4. Austrian chancellor
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Prussia's defeat of Austria in the 1866 Austro-Prussian War resulted in the creation of

  1. the German Confederation
  2. the North German Confederation
  3. the Reichstag
  4. the German empire
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

After Napoleon III was captured by Prussian troops in 1871, liberals overthrew the government and established the

  1. Third Republic
  2. Third Empire
  3. Second Republic
  4. Second Reich
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following did not have to deal with the problem of the nationalism of subject people in its territory during the nineteenth century?

  1. Austrian empire
  2. Ottoman empire
  3. Russian empire
  4. Prussian empire
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