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Chapter 24 Section 3&4
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Franz Joseph I
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Emperor of Austria-Hungary from 1848 to 1916; during his long reign he took small steps to address the democratic and nationalist aspirations of his people.
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Magyars
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a Hungarian ethnic group
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Dual Monarchy
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Austria-Hungary (1867–1918), two separate, equal states ruled by one monarch
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Crimean War
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(1853–1856) war between the Ottoman Empire and Russia, ostensibly over access for Eastern Orthodox Christians to the Holy Land, controlled by the Ottomans; Britain and France allied with the Ottomans to check Russian expansion
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Balkan Wars
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(1912–1913) two wars that cost the Ottoman Empire all of its European territories except the area around Constantinople (Istanbul)
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Young Turks
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Turkish reformist and nationalist political party active in the early 20th century
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Austria was ______ nationalist activities
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aginst
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_______________ attempted to unite European nations against nationalist revolutions
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Congress of Troppau
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Resignation of _______________ and the Austrian emperor
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Metternich
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In Hungary, Revolution stopped by _______
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Austria
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____________ created in 1867
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Dual Monarchy
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_____________ made Austria and Hungary two separate and equal states under one ruler
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Dual Monarchy
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___________ remained divided
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Ethnic groups
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Ottoman Empires nationalist groups began revolutions in the _____
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Balkans
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Young ______ began revolutions in 1908
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Turks
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Turks revolution lead to more representative and ______ governments
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Liberal
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Carlsbad Decrees
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Laws that prohibited any reforms that conflicted with absolute monarchy
Censored newspapers
secret police force that spied on students suspected of liberal or nationalist revolutionary activities
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Dual Monarchy
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Also known as Austria-Hungary
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Compromise of 1867
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created the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary
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Eastern Question
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What would happen if the Ottoman Empire collapsed? Specifically Constantinople
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Russia wanted to control Constantinople so that is would have access to the
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Mediterranean Sea
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Florence Nightingale
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well known for her work to save lives during the Crimean war
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Congress of Berlin
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Overturn the gains that Russia made on the Ottomans.
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autocracy
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a government in which the ruler holds absolute power
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serfs
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peasants who were legally bound to their lord's land
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Alexander II
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Czar of Russia from 1855 to 1851; he freed the Russian serfs and passed other liberal reforms in Russia.
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pogroms
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the organized persecutions and massacres of Jews in Russia in the 1880s
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Trans-Siberian Railroad
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railroad, begun in 1891, linking western Russia to Siberia in the east
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Russo-Japanese War
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an imperialistic conflict that stemmed from the rival designs of Russia and Japan on Manchuria and Korea, resulting in the defeat of Russia
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socialist republic
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a type of republic in which there is no private property and the state owns and distributes all goods to people
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Lenin, Vladimir
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Russian revolutionary and founder of Bolshevism; he rose to power in Russia following the Russian Revolution in 1917
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Bloody Sunday
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January 22, 1905, the day that czarist troops fired on protestors at the Winter Palace, igniting the Russian Revolution of 1905
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Duma
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the Russian legislative assembly, formed after the Revolution of 1905
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Decembrist
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revolution group, included military solders, officers, refused to declare elegance to Nicholas I
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The Peoples Will
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Assassinated Alexander II
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Alexander III
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reactionary, person that wants to go back to old ways
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Nicholas II
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autocrat industry developed under his rule rapidly.
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Marxist
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Russians who followed the communist theory of Karl Marx.
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Father Gapon
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a Russian priest led in saint peters burg on bloody Sunday.
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October Manifesto
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an official promise for reform and more democratic government. Promised Russian constitution. freedom of speech. right to vote
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