HIST 1003A Quiz 1 PDF

**HIST 1003A: Empire, War, and Revolution in Europe, 1850-1939** **Quiz \#1** **Student Name:\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_** **Student Number:\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_...

**HIST 1003A: Empire, War, and Revolution in Europe, 1850-1939** **Quiz \#1** **Student Name:\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_** **Student Number:\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_** **Please indicate the *most correct* answer according to the lecture and reading content for the week.** 1. The Crimean War began as a result of: a. British concerns over Russian expansionism. b. Russia's desire to prepare for the "inevitable" collapse of the Ottoman Empire. c. Conflict between Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics under Muslim rule. d. **All of the above.** 2. In addition to claiming some Austrian territory, the unifications of Italy and Germany in the 19^th^ century weakened the Austrian Empire through: e. Souring the historic alliance between Austria and Russia during the Crimean War. f. **Sending a message to non-Germans within the Empire to push for their national sovereignty.** g. Making the Austrians nervous about engaging in another war against Prussia. h. Blockading Austrian continental trade routes to western Europe. 3. Prime Minister Count Camillo di Cavour brought Piedmont into the Crimean War in order to: i. **Establish Piedmont's right to intervene on behalf of Lombardy and Venetia.** j. Lay claim to territories within the Russian Empire. k. Convince Napoleon III that Austrian power of Northern Italy violated some basic principles of the French Revolution (1789). l. Establish King Victor Emmanuel III's legitimate claim to the Piedmont throne. 4. Following the revolutions of 1848 and the reconstitution of the German Confederation in 1851, most German states wielded both the "carrot" and "stick" over their subjects by: m. Expanding the police and establishing police surveillance of the population. n. Creating public services, improving infrastructure, and using economic development to steer liberals away from opposition politics. o. Withdrawing constitutions and limiting parliamentary and voting rights. p. **All of the above.** 5. The Peace of Prague in 1866 secured: q. The provinces of Schleswig-Holstein for the German Confederation. r. The Austrian provinces of Sicily and Tuscany for Italy. s. **Prussian domination of Germany.** t. Universal male suffrage in the Frankfurt Diet. 6. Rewriting the Ems Dispatch of 1870, Bismarck goaded Napoleon III into war against Prussia through: u. Making it known Wilhelm I wanted a Prussian prince on the Spanish throne. v. Threatening to help Italy annex Rome. w. Wilhelm I endorsing the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine. x. **A cultural difference in the meaning of the term 'adjutant.'** 7. Unlike fascism, liberalism, or communism, nationalism isn't an ideology, but more along the lines of a religion in that it has the ability to represent the nation: y. Secondary to identifications of gender, regional, social, and political divisions. z. **Without excluding a host of other identities.** a. Without rejecting other nations. b. Though incapable of simultaneously representing the particularity of other identities. 8. The *Sonderweg* thesis suggested that aberrant German nationhood created discrepancies between modern economic development and the persistence of traditional and antidemocratic structures in order to explain: c. why Nazism developed in Germany. d. Germany's inability to produce a functioning liberal democracy (prior to WWII). e. How national feeling largely emanated from ruling elites (Junkers) to divert attention from a repressive regime. f. **All of the above.** 9. The Bismarckian nation-state demanded a monopoly of national loyalty, without: g. **Demolishing regional identities.** h. Underselling the enormity of Prussian victory in the German civil war. i. Acknowledging multiple regional histories within a single national history. j. Maintaining regional institutions and preunification structures. 10. Like the history of modern Europe, the history of Württemberg begins with the French Revolution (1789) as Württemberg joined Napoleon against Russia and Austria, and was rewarded with territory, particularly from Austria, and: k. Rule over the German Confederation. l. The ability to suppress the region's Catholic minority. m. **Its elevation from Duchy to Kingdom.** n. None of the above.