Modern World History – Study Guide
Chapter 8 – Nationalist Revolutions Sweep the West (1789-1900)
Examine the great shifts in thinking that altered politics and the arts during the period 1789-1900.
8.2 – Europe Faces Revolutions (Only read “Nationalism Develops” & “Analyzing Key Concepts”)
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Define nationalism & nation-state
Describe the bonds that create a nation-state
Describe the positive & negative results of nationalism
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nationalism
nation-state
assimilation
ethnic cleansing
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8.3 – Nationalism (Case Study: Italy and Germany)
 Describe the three types of nationalist movements.
 Describe the impact of nationalism on the Austrian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires.
 Summarize how Cavour & Garibaldi unified Italy.
 Summarize how Bismarck unified Germany.
 Explain how the balance of power in Europe was affected by the wars of the 1800s.
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nationality
types of nationalist movements
Austro-Prussian War
North German Confederation
Francis Joseph
Austria-Hungary
Romanov dynasty
Russification
Armenians
Piedmont-Sardinia
Victor Emmanuel II
Camillo di Cavour
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Venetia
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Sicily
Red Shirts
Naples
Papal States
Vatican City
German Confederation
Wilhelm I (William)
Junkers
Otto von Bismarck
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section 8.3
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Prussia
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Franco-Prussian War
Sedan
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Second Reich
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Charles Dickens
Impressionism
Claude Monet
Edgar Degas
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Maurice Ravel
Claude Debussy
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8.4 – Revolutions in the Arts
 Define romanticism and give examples of romantic literature and music.
 Explain the shift to realism and give examples of realistic art and literature.
 Explain why impressionists reached against realism.
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Romanticism
William Wordsworth
John Keats
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm
Victor Hugo
Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley
Ludwig van Beethoven
Felix Mendelssohn
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Frederic Chopin
Guiseppe Verdi
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daguerreotypes
Louis Daguerre
William Talbot
Honore de Balzac
Emile Zola