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Unification of Italy/Germany
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02/27/2017

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Giuseppe Mazzini
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Organized Young Italy, a secret society aimed at insurrection in Italy and unification through violence
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Count Cavour
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Prime minister of Sardinia who worked toward unification through diplomatic means.
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Guiseppe Garibaldi
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Joined Young Italy and started a paramilitary group of revolutionaries known as the Red Shirts
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Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia
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First king of a united Italy
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Otto von Bismarck
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The chancellor of Prussia
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Schleswig and Holstein
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Two duchies of Denmark that Austria and Prussia warred to take over
Schleswig went to Prussia and Holstein went to Austria
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Franco-Prussian War
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Encouraged by Bismarck in 1870-1871
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King Wilhelm
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Declared Emperor Wilhelm I of a united Germany
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Bundesrat
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Upper chamber of German Parliament
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Reichstag
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Lower chamber of German Parliament
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Wilhelm II
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Dismissed Bismarck and began to build a powerful navy
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Admiral von Tirpitz
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Wilhelm II's state secretary for naval affairs who organized the Navy League and set out to build up German sea power
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Dual Monarchy
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The Austrian Empire became this or the Austro-Hungarian Empire
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Francis Joseph I
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The Hapsburg ruler who was king of Hungary and emperor of Austria
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Paris Commune
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Proposed to forcibly establish a more democratic style of government like in the first French Revolution
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Dual Alliance
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France had formed this alliance with Russia
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Entente Cordiale
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Reconciled the differences between France and Britain
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Triple Entente
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Sealed the alliance among Britain, France, and Russia
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Louis Blanc
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Advocated democratic socialism
"For each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
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