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RoundOne
UltimateQuestion
Napoleon III
Count Cavour
Otto von Bismarck
RoundTwo
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This international meeting created the
“rules” for the “scramble for Africa.”
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Round 1
What is the
Berlin Conference (1884-85)?
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Britain’s conquest of this country became
the model for the “new imperialism.”
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What is Egypt?
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These two African countries were the only remaining free
states by 1914.
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What are Liberia and Ethiopia?
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This crisis over control of the Sudan nearly led to a war
between Britain and France.
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Round 1
What is the
Fashoda Crisis?
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This notable critic of imperialism claimed that Europe was abandoning its principles of human
dignity while benefitting little economically.
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Who is J. A. Hobson?
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This German economic union was a major source of friction
between Prussia and Austria.
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What is the Zollverein?
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This war resulted in the final
unification of Germany in 1871.
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What is the Franco-Prussian
War?
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This Italian statesman was the “architect” of
Italian unification after 1850.
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Who is Count Cavour?
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This romantic Italian leader and his Red Shirts unified the
southern part of Italy before giving it to
King Victor Emmanuel.
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Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi?
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This conflict convinced Russia that it had fallen way behind the Western powers both militarily
and industrially.
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What is the Crimean War?
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This party became the largest in the German Reichstag
by 1912.
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What is the Social
Democratic Party (SPD)?
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This chancellor initiated the first
social welfare system in European history.
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Who is Otto von Bismarck?
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This militant British feminist led the fight for female suffrage in Britain in the late-19th and early 20th century.
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Round 1
Who is Emmeline
Pankhurst?
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Edouard Bernstein advocated this
political philosophy (that was seen by purists as a real
sellout!).
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What is socialist
revisionism?
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This scandal nearly tore the French
Republic apart in the 1890s.
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What is the Dreyfus Affair?
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This leader of the “Liberal Empire” in
France established the new model for the nation state in the
second half of the 19th century.
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Who is Napoleon III?
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This nurse became famous for her
battlefield medical work during the
Crimean War.
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Who is Florence Nightingale?
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This monarch became the first king of Italy in
1871.
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Who is Victor Emmanuel?
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This poet wrote the “White Man’s
Burden,” conveying a cynical view of imperialism.
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Who is Rudyard Kipling?
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This pontiff issued the Syllabus of Errors in 1864 while opposing
the unification of Italy.
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Who is Pope Pius IX?
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This Conservative leader in Britain agreed to near-universal male suffrage (he called it a
“leap in the dark.”)
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Who is Benjamin Disraeli?
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This party oversaw the creation of a welfare system in Britain in the early
20th century.
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What is the Liberal Party?
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This 20th-century law gave women age 30 and older
the right to vote in Britain.
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What is the Representation of the People
Act, 1918?
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This dominant Liberal Party Prime Minister
advocated Irish Home Rule in the late-
nineteenth century.
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Who is William Gladstone?
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This Scottish member of Parliament became one of
the founders of the Independent Labour Party (which eventually became
the Labour Party).
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Who is Keir Hardie?
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This was Bismarck’s attempt to suppress Catholics politically.
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What is kulturekampf?
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This group took over the French gov’t briefly after
the end of the Franco-Prussian War and was
defeated in a bloody civil war.
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What is the Paris
Commune?
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This German term refers to the 1867
creation of the Dual Monarchy in the
Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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What is the Ausgleich?
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This new philosophy, developed by Herbert Spencer, seemed to
justify strong countries conquering weaker
ones.
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What is Social Darwinism?
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This Jewish leader advocated Zionism,
the call for the creation of a Jewish
homeland in Palestine.
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Who is Theodore
Herzl?
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This colony was the considered the jewel of
the British Empire.
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Round 2
What is India?
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This violent 1900 conflict in China occurred when
Chinese nationalists sought to expel westerners from China (and even killed a
few diplomats).
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Round 2
What is the Boxer
Rebellion?
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This war resulted in Britain taking control of South Africa from Dutch
descendants.
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What is the Boer War (South
African War)?
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Lord Kitchener led the British army in
slaughtering several thousand Sudanese
warriors at this battle.
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Round 2
What is the Battle of
Omdurman?
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This leftist political thinker condemned imperialism as an
extension of greedy capitalism.
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Who is Karl Marx?
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Bismarck came from this social class in Prussia.
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What is the Junkers?
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When Bismarck sought to outlaw the SPD, this
new German king demanded his
resignation in 1890.
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Round 2
Who is Wilhelm II?
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In this famous Bismarckian quote,
“the great questions of the day would be settled by” this.
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What is “blood and iron”?
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This war resulted in Prussia creating the
North German Confederation in 1867,
with most German states included.
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What is the Austro-Prussian
War?
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This war resulted in Prussia and Austria
jointly administering Schleswig and
Holstein.
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What is the Prussian-Danish
War?
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This noble was commissioned by
Napoleon III to help redesign and rebuild
Paris.
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Who is Baron von Haussmann?
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This French financial institution supported
large industrial projects in France during the reign of Napoleon III.
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What is Crédit Mobilier?
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This famous realist author wrote J‘accuse
and helped win Captain Dreyfus his
freedom.
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Round 2
Who is Émile Zola?
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This French statesman pushed for
secularization of French education and also co-sponsored the Berlin
Conference with Bismarck.
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Who is Jules Ferry?
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This political leader became the first
president of the Third French Republic in the
1870s.
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Who is Adolph Thiers?
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Germany and Italy were unified
in this year.
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What is 1871?
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These are the years for the age of
Realpolitik.
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What are 1848-1871?
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These are the years for the Age of Mass Politics.
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What are 1871-1914?
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Women received the right to vote in
Britain in this year.
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What is 1918?
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This was the year most British men received
the right to vote. It was the year Disraeli took his “leap in the dark.”
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What is 1867?
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The disappointing failure for King
Frederick William IV to unify Germany in 1849 under the grossdeutch plan is known as this.
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Round 2
What is the Humiliation of
Olmutz?
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This treaty angered Russia because it had defeated the Ottoman
Empire but got nothing in return. (Serbia and Romania became
independent states, though).
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Round 2
What is the Congress of
Berlin?
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This treaty formally ended the Franco-Prussian War and gave Alsace and
Lorraine to Germany.
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What is the Treaty of
Frankfurt?
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This message, sent by Prussia to humiliate France,
bragged that a French diplomat had been dissed by the Prussian King, thus
leading to the Franco-Prussian War.
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Round 2
What is the Ems Dispatch?
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At this location, Napoleon III promised
Sardinia-Piedmont that he would support an Italian war against Austria (but later
reneged).
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What is Plombières?
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This was the dominant
ethnic/cultural group in Hungary.
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Who are the Magyars?
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This is the name for united Germany’s
parliament.
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What is the Reichstag?
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This political organization in Great Britain became the driving force behind
socialist revisionism in the 1880s, before there
was a Labour Party.
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What is the Fabian Society?
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This region of northern Ireland was staunchly opposed to Irish Home
Rule, and even threatened to fight to
prevent it.
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What is Ulster?
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This Belgian king had the Congo taken away from
him by the Belgian parliament because the people of the Congo had been treated so poorly.
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Who is Leopold II?
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This famous British feminist used the political and legal
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successfully advocate for female suffrage.
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