Chapter 25: The Age of Nationalism
AP European History
Vogt/Doyle
Objectives
Students will be able to…
• Determine how Germany was unified, describe Bismarck’s methods, and what the
long-term results were.
• Identify why nationalism became a universal faith in Europe between 1850-1914.
• Determine how nationalism gained the support of the broad masses of society.
• Analyze why the voters of France elected Louis Napoleon president in 1848, and
why they elected him emperor a few years later.
• Identify some of the benefits Napoleon bestowed on his subjects.
• Determine if Napoleon allowed any political opposition to exist. Analyze his
political system and why it eventually broke down.
• Explain why Italy before 1860 was merely a “geographical expression.”
• Identify the three basic approaches to Italian unification, and determine which one
prevailed.
• Determine the nature and significance of Garibaldi’s liberation of Sicily and Naples
in 1860. Identify reasons for Cavour to be nervous about Garibaldi.
• Analyze the causes and results of the Austro-Prussian War.
• Identify the significance of the Zollverein in German History.
• Assess why the Prussian liberals made an about-face and supported their old enemy
Bismarck after 1866.
• Identify how territorial expansion and the issue of slavery related in the U.S.
• Determine what enabled the North to defeat the South in the Civil War. Explain
how a new American nationalism grew out of the war.
• Analyze the status of Russian serfs in the early nineteenth century. Determine how
beneficial the reform of 1861 was to a serf.
• Asses the Crimean war and determine why it was a turning point in Russian
History.
• Identify how Russia used the west to catch up with the west.
• Determine if the new Germany was a democracy. Identify where the power resided
in the Germany of 1871.
• Analyze Bismarck’s relationship after 1871 with (a) the Catholic Church, (b) the
liberals, (c) the socialists.
• Identify the German social-welfare laws and determine their origin.
• Analyze the causes and outcome of the Dreyfus affair in France.
• Identify the major political developments and issues in Britain and Ireland in the
late nineteenth century. Determine if the Irish problem was solvable.
• Identify the ways that ethnic rivalries and growing anti-semitism related in AustroHungary.
• Analyze the rapid growth of socialist parties in Europe in the last quarter of the
nineteenth century.
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Identify the purpose of socialist internationals and determine to what degree they
represent working-class unity.
Explain the general arguments of the revisionist socialists. Determine if they were
true Marxists.
People, Places, Events, Terms--Note Cards
• Benjamin Disraeli
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Jules Ferry
• Sergei Witte
• Alexander II
• Camillo Benso di Cavour
• Edward Bernstein
• Pius IX
• William Gladstone
• Giuseppe Garibaldi
• William II
• John Stuart Mill
• The People’s Budget
• Napoleon III’s coup d’etat
• May Day
• Assassinationof Tsar Alexander II
• Establishment of the Zollverein (1834)
• Establishment of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy
• Treaty of Villafranca
• Paris Commune of 1871
• Ulster Revolt of December 1913
Readings
Text:
• Napoleon III in France
• Nation Building in Italy and Germany AND
the United States
• The Modernization of Russia
• The Responsive National State
• Marxism and the Socialist Movement
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Reading/Writing Assignments:
http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinksEuropeanNationalism.htm
• 1842 Louis Napoleon and the Second Republic
Supplementary
• 1831 Giuseppe Mazzini Italian Unification
Supplementary
• 1848 Documents on German Unification
Supplementary
• 1896 Theodor Herzl – Creation of a Jewish State
Supplementary
Assignments