AP European History
Chapter 25 Questions
1. How did Louis Napoleon use the plebiscite to consolidate his power? Why did he choose
that tool?
2. Was Napoleon III more effective in his domestic or his foreign policies? Please explain.
3. Why did Metternich refer to Italy as a “geographical expression”? Which of the three
Italian leaders, Cavour, Garibaldi, or Victor Emmanuel, was most important for
unification? Why?
4. Why is the “Iron Chancellor” such an important leader in German history?
5. Where was the second German Reich proclaimed? Why then and there?
6. Compare nation building in the US to that of nation building in Europe.
7. Why was Russia so backward in the 1850s and what did Alexander II and Sergei Witte
try to do about it? How did this factor into the Russian Revolution of 1905?
8. Explain the factors account for the strengthening of nationalism in the late 1800s.
9. How did Bismarck continue to unify Germany after 1871? Why did Wilhelm II fire him?
10. How did the Third Republic come into existence? What were its greatest successes and
its greatest failures?
11. How did the Dreyfus Affair change France?
12. What was the Irish Question and how did Great Britain attempt to resolve it?
13. What is Zionism and why did many Jews turn to Zionism in the late 1800s?
14. What was the Communist International (1st and 2nd)? What attractions did it hold for
radicals and workers? Why wasn’t it more successful?