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Western Civilization
Chapter 25
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03/11/2007

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Realpolitik
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"the politics of reality"
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Reich
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the German empire
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the House of Savoy
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governed Piedmont in the northwest and the island of Sardinia = an Italian dynasty
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the Carbonari
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the most important secret society that had clubs in every state in Italy
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King Ferdinand I
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was forced to grant a constitution and a parliamentary govt. by the secret societies
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Giuseppe Mazzini
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dedicated his life to the creation of a united and republican Italy
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Risorgimento
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the movement for Italian unity by Mazzini
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Count Camillo Benso di Cavour
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the chief minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, became the architect of Italian unity
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Napoleon III
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hoped that a unifed northen Italy would became an ally and client of France
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Romagna
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one of the Papal states
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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was forced to flee Italy to avoid arrest for his revolutionary activities
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the Junkers
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supported the Prussian throne
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Zollverein
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a customs union which abolished tariffs between the states
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Zollverein
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a customs union which abolished tariffs between the states
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Zollverein
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a customs union which abolished tariffs between the states
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the Franco-Prussian War
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completed the unification of Germany
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Zollverein
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a customs union which abolished tariffs between the states
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Frederick William IV
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refused the crown offered to him by the Frankfurt Assembly
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William I
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called for a drastic reorganization of the Prussian army
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Otto von Bismarck
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King William asked him to lead the battle against parliament
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German Kaiser
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William I was granted this title by the German princes
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Francis Joseph
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was emperor of Austria and King of Hungary
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Francis Palacky
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a Czech patriot
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Volkish Thought
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Volk means "folk" or "people" = the most ominous expression of German nationalism
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William von Riehl
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he contrasted the artificiality of modern city life with the unspoiled existence in the German countryside
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Berthold Auerbach
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glorified the peasant as the ideal German
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Paul de Lagarde
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called for a German faith, different from Christianity
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Julius Langbehn
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lauded a mystical and irrational life force as superior to reason and held that the Jews corrupted the German spirit
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Houston Stewart Chamberlin
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an Englishman whose fascination with Germanism led him to adopt German citizenship
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The Foundation of the Nineteenth Century
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Chamberlain asserted in pseudoscientific fashion that races differed not only physically but also morally, spiritually, and intellectually, and that the struggle between races was the driving force of history
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Joseph Goebbels
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hailed Chamberlain as a "pathbreaker" and "pioneer" after meeting him
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Georges Sorel
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a political theorist
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Edouard Drumont
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a French journalist, published Jewish France
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