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Nationalism APEH
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02/10/2014

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Realism
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19th century rejection of ideals of the Romantic Age; attempt to examine society as it is using facts, evidence, rather than how it should be
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Communist Manifesto
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Book written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848 that dramatizes the conditions of the working class and served as a call to revolution
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Marxism
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aka Scientific Socialism; An extreme form of socialism that stresses economic determinism and class struggle
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Realpolitik
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The politics of reality; associated with Bismarck; the politics that cannot be achieved through speeches/rallies but by any means necessary
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Risorgimento
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Literally, resurgence; Refers to the 19th century Italian unification movement
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Crimean War
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1854-56 mainly on Crimean peninsula between Austria and Russia. 1st war covered by newspaper correspondents and women as nurses (Florence Nightingale)
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Red Shirts
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Garibaldi's troops used in the unification of Italy
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Junker
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Prussian aristocracy
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Seven Weeks' War
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aka Austro-Prussian War
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Ems dispatch
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Telegram from Prussia's head of state to the French government, edited by Bismarck to look like an insult, that helped cause the Franco-Prussian War
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Dual Monarchy
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The Austro-Hungarian empire; the Habsburg monarchy after the 1867 reform that granted Hungary equality with Austria
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Act of Emancipation
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1861 Charter of freedom for Russian serfs
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