Notes

Pedro Pena-Lopez
Mr. Fitzko
Period 3
1/5/17

1.
Conservative: usually wealthy property owners and nobility. They argued for protecting the traditional monarchies of Europe.
Liberal: mostly middle-class business leaders and merchants. They wanted to give more power to elected parliaments, but only the educated and the landowners would vote.
Radical: favored drastic change to extend democracy to all people. They believed that governments should practice the ideals of the French Revolution—liberty, equality, and brotherhood.
Nationalism: the belief that people’s greatest loyalty should not be to a king or an empire but to a nation of people who share a common culture and history.
Nation-State: defends the nation’s territory and way of life, and it represents the nation to the rest of the world.
The Balkans: region includes all or part of present-day Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, and the former Yugoslavia. Greeks, however, had kept alive the memory of their ancient history and culture
Louis Napoleon: the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte who won the presidential election.
Alexander II: Nicholas’s son who decided to move Russia toward modernization and social change.

2. The revolts were failures because they had a lack of strong allies and support, weak military support of the rulers, and the division among the revolutionaries.

4. One side wanted political reform, the other side wanted social and economic reform. This led to bloody battles in the Parisian streets.

5. Their defeat of the Crimean war and the spread of nationalism were the driving force of russia’s industrial expansion.

8. The consequences were terrorism.