NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

ONE WORD ANSWER

·         French Revolution -1789

·         Treaty of Vietna-1815

·         Conservative regime set up -1830

·         Italian revolutionary leader from Genoa--Guisseppe Mazzini

·         Who said?  “When France sneezes the rest of Europe catches cold”.—Metternich

·         Which treaty made Greece  an independent nation?—Treaty of Constantinople ,1832

·         The revolt of weavers in Selisia,1845--Against the contracters who did not pay them enough.

·         Junkers were the—Large landowners.

·         Absolutist refers to—Monarchical government

·         Napoleanic Code –1804

·         Young Italy –The secret society found out by GuIssippe Mazzini

·         The main  architect behind the unification of Germany-- GuIssippe Mazzini

·         The main  architect behind the unification of Italy—Cavour

·         Expedition carried out by Giuseppe Garibaldi—Expedition of thousand  to South Italy

·         Allegory of Germany—Germania

·         Allegory pof France—Marianne

·         The most serious source of nationalist tension in Europe after 1871, was an area called—Balkens

·         The term ‘liberalism’ derives from the Latin root -- liber, meaning free.

·         Slav nationalism gathers force in the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires—1905

·         QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

·         What are the measures taken by the French revolutionaries to create a sense of collective identity among the French people?

·         The ideas of la patrie (thefatherland) and le citoyen (the citizen) emphasised the notion of a united community enjoying equal rights under a constitution.

·         A new French flag, the tricolour, was chosen to replace the former royal standard.

·          The Estates General was elected by the body of active citizens and renamed the National Assembly.

·          New hymns were composed, oaths taken and martyrs commemorated, all in the name of the nation.

·          A centralised administrative system was put in place and  formulated uniform laws for all citizens within its territory.

·          Internal customs duties and dues were abolished and a uniform system of weights and measures was adopted.

·         Regional dialects were discouraged and French, as it was spoken and written in Paris, became the common language of the nation.

·         When the news of the events in France reached the different cities

·         JACOBIN CLUBS

•     The  students and other members of educated middle classes in Europe  set up Jacobin clubs to carry the idea of nationalism.

·         Their activities and campaigns prepared the way for the French armies which moved into Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and much of Italy in the 1790s.

·          With theoutbreak of the revolutionary wars, the French armies began to carry the idea of nationalism abroad.

 CUSTOMS UNION OR ZOLVEREIN--1834

·         Formed at the initiative of Prussia and joined by most of the German states.

·         The union abolished tariff barriers and reduced the number of currencies from over thirty to two. 

vVaried currencies and weighs and measures were  obstecles to economic growth.

SSo the creation of a unified economic territory allowing the unhindered movement of goods,  people and capital was needed.