a history of western society
TRANSCRIPT
A History of Western Society
CHAPTER 23
The Age of Nationalism
1850–1914
Copyright © 2014 by Bedford/St. Martin’s
John P. McKay • Clare Haru Crowston •
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks • Joe Perry
• A. France’s Second Republic
• 1. Louis Napoleon’s Election Victory—Despite a lack of political experience, Louis Napoleon provided protection to middle-class and peasant property owners against the socialist challenge.
• 2. Louis Napoleon’s Program—A strong, authoritarian national leader who would serve all the people, provide national unity, promote social progress, and create jobs.
• 3. Political Steps—Louis signed a bill to increase the role of the Catholic Church in primary and secondary education, approved a law depriving many poor people of the right to vote, illegally dismissed the Assembly on December 2, 1851, seized power in a coup d’état, crushed protests with the army.
• B. Napoleon III’s Second Empire
• 1. Economic Measures—Emperor Napoleon III’s government encouraged new investment banks and railroad construction and supported ambitious public works projects to rebuild Paris. In the 1850s and 1860s.
II. Nation Building in Italy1. Count Camillo Benso di Cavour—A nobleman and
brilliant statesman who led Sardinia from 1850 until his
death in 1861. He initially sought unity only for the
states of northern and central Italy.
• 2. Unifying Northern Italy—In 1858, Cavour arranged a secret alliance with Napoleon III against Austria who controlled part of northern Italy. Cavour achieved his goal of a northern Italian state.
• 3. Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882)—Son of a poor sailor and the embodiment of romantic revolutionary nationalism and republicanism who “liberated” the kingdom of the Two Sicilies by landing in Sicily and Naples in 1860. Garibaldi used his Red Shirts (guerilla army) to win the hearts of the Sicilian peasantry.
Italy becomes Unified• The Italians first get the taste of political
unity from Napoleon. The Congress of
Vienna puts old political divisions back in
place.
• Italian Nationalism - Risorgimento . Secret
Societies formed the carbonari. Giuseppi
Mazzini, early Italian leader.
• “Young Italy Movement” begins in 1831.
• 1848 Rebellions in Sardinia, Tuscany, Rome.
The only successful one in Sardinia.
Count Cavour - Victor Emmanuel II • Many Italians wanted a
country led by the pope.
• Count Cavour was the
prime minister of Sardinia.
He helped unite Italy.
• Austrian control of Northern
Italy prevented Italian unity.
• Cavour plotted with
Napoleon III of France
Count Cavour
Napoleon III • Napoleon III and Cavour
plotted to defeat Austria.
• France got Nice and Savoy
and then turned around and
plotted with the Austrians.
• Many of the other Italian
provinces wanted to join
Sardinia.
• Victor Emmanuel II agrees
to the French terms.
Italy
Garibaldi’s Red Shirts • The Bourbons ruled in
Southern Italy. The Kingdom
of the Two Sicilies.
• Garibaldi was a career
revolutionary.
• Garibaldi with his Red Shirts
conquer The Kingdom of the
Two Sicilies.
• Garibaldi drives the
Bourbons out of Italy.Giuseppe Garibaldi
Final Unification of Italy • In 1861 Victor Emmanuel II is
crowned the king of Italy.
• The new kingdom included all
of Italy except Venetia and the
Papal States.
• Italy gains Venetia after the
Seven Weeks War, between
Austria and Prussia.
• Lots of problems in Italy,
sectionalism, Mafia, high taxes
Italian Celebration
Prussia Created a Unified and
Powerful German Empire
Prussia as a Leader• Napoleon I controlled Prussia from the 1806
- 1812. He helped unify Germany.
• Napoleon ended the Hapsburg control of
Germany and created the Confederation of
the Rhine.
• Napoleon stimulated nationalism in the
German states.
• Nationalism favored Prussia more than
Austria. Prussia had a larger Germanic
population.
The Zollverein• The first major step toward German unity
concerned the economy.
• The drive for movement of goods was
begun by the Junkers (the aristocratic land
owners of Prussia ).
• A customs union was set up called the
Zollverein .
• This benefited members by lower prices and
by lowering trade restrictions.
Bismarck and Prussian Strength•William I became king of
Prussia in 1861.
• In 1862 he appointed Otto von Bismarck to head the Prussian cabinet.
•Bismarck dismissed the Prussian parliament and taxed for military expansion and ignored the protests of the liberals.
The Crowning of the Kaiser
Unification Through War• Bismarck fought a series of Wars to unify
Germany and to weaken Austria.
• The Danish War - Prussia and Austria defeat
Denmark and take the states of Schleswig
and Holstein.
• The Seven Weeks War - Bismarck used Italy
and France to force Austria from the
German Confederation.
• Franco - Prussian War- Prussia defeats
France and united Germany in 1871.
Formation of the German Empire
• In 1871 representatives of the German
states met at Versailles declaring the
formation of the German Empire .
• A federal government was set up.
• The Kaiser, was head of the government .
Bismarck became the chancellor.
• The Bundesrat ( upper house ) appointed
and the Reichstag ( lower house ) was
elected.
The German Industrial Giant• Germany after unification becomes the
industrial giant of Europe.
• Germany had a growing population, coal
and iron, railroads, well educated workforce.
Krupp steel.
• The Germans used Universities to train
workers, organized the economy to favor
business.
• Germany becomes a world leader in steel
production and chemicals.
Bismarck’s Germany• Bismarck’s goals - keep France weak,
maintain ties with Austria and Russia, build
an overseas empire.
• Bismarck at home-limit the power of the
Catholic Church (kulturkampf), and crush
the socialists or Social Democratic Party.
• Bismarck loses both of these efforts and
gives workers benefits.
• After making Germany strong he is fired by
William II in 1890.
Austria Focuses on the Balkans
Austria Focuses on the Balkans• In 1848 Metternich and Emperor Ferdinand
are forced to resign in favor of Francis Joseph I. New Constitution, and legislature for Austria.
• The Hungarians led by Louis Kossuth also revolted in 1848. The Russians fearing that the revolution would spread crushed the revolt. Austria defeated by Prussia.
• Formation of the Dual Monarchies - Austria -Hungary. In 1866 negotiated by Francis Deak
Formation of the Dual Monarchies• After the Prussia defeats Austria
Hungary demands more freedom.
• In 1867 Austria forms the Dual Monarchy.
Austria - Hungary. Francis Deak
negotiates the merger.
• Austrian capital in Vienna. Hungary in
Budapest. Hungary - agricultural Austria-
industrial.
• The mix of nationalities, cultures, and
languages causes problems.
Austria looking towards the Balkans
Austria looking towards the Balkans• By the 1800s the Ottoman Empire had
declined. The Empire is sometimes called
the “ Sick man of Europe.”
• The rulers of the Ottoman Empire had
allowed the empire to decay.
• When Greeks, Jews, or Christians in the
Empire planned rebellions they were
slaughtered.
• The rise of Nationalism in the Balkans
adds fuel to the fire.
The Ottoman Empire
Discontent in the Balkans• Greeks gain their independence in 1831.
• Serbs also gain autonomy.
• The Russians support the Bulgarians and Serbs - Pan-Slavism.
• The British worry about Russian expansion which leads to the Crimean War.
• The autocratic Russians support a revolt while the democratic British support the Ottoman Turks. Crimean War.
Russia: Reform and Reaction
The Russian Colossus• By 1800, Russia was the largest, most populace
nation in Europe.
• Other European powers disliked Russia’s
autocratic government.
• Obstacles to Russian progress, were a rigid social
structure, serfdom, landowners had no incentive
to improve conditions.
• Orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationalism were the
three pillars of Russian absolutism.
• The Decembrist revolt in 1825, led by army officers
demanded a constitution, it was quickly smashed.
Russian Revolt
Reforms of Alexander II• Alexander II the Russian czar had come to
power during the Crimean War in 1855.
• The Crimean War revealed Russia’s backwardness, no railroads, military leadership was terrible.
• In 1861 Alexander II issued a decree that freed the serfs. The freed serfs moved to cities and helped create new Russian industry.
• Other reforms included the zemstvos or local elected assemblies were given some power, and legal reforms and womens rights.
Russian Czars
Alexander IIAlexander III Nicholas II
Return to Reaction in Russia• A Revolutionary movement was trying to change
Russia. ( The People’s Will)
• Alexander II was assassinated by a bomb.
• Alexander III began a crakdown on Russian freedoms. He renewed censorship, began pogroms and Russification.
• Jews were forced to flee Russia, many came to the United States.
• Under Alexander III and Nicholas II Russia entered the Industrial Age.
• The Trans-Siberian Railroad was built. Workers moved to the city, socialists like Lenin tried to organize workers.
Russian Reaction
Bloody Sunday -The Revolution of 1905• After Russia loses the Russo-Japanese War
peasants appeal to the Czar for help.
• The Massacre of 1905 – Sunday 22, January.
• Peaceful march turned violent, which leads to the Revolution of 1905.
• Nicholas II is forced to sign the October Manifesto he agrees to summon the Duma.
• The Manifesto won over moderates and in 1906 the Duma met, but was quickly dissolved.
• Nicholas II appoints Peter Stolypin, brutal repression followed. Stolypin is assassinated.
• By 1914, Russia is a cauldron of unrest.
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday
Duma
II. Nation Building in Italy, Germany,
and the United States
C. Growing Austro-Prussian Rivalry
1. Political Stalemate
2. The Zollverein
3. Prussia and Unification
D. Bismarck and the Austro-Prussian War
1. Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898)
2. The War Against Denmark
3. The Austro-Prussian War
II. Nation Building in Italy, Germany,
and the United States
E. Taming the German Parliament
1. Wedding Nationalism and Conservatism
2. Bismarck’s Constitution
3. Co-opting Liberals
F. The Franco-Prussian War
1. Unifying the South
2. Prussian Victory
3. The Consequences
II. Nation Building in Italy, Germany,
and the United States
G. Slavery and Nation Building in the United States
1. North and South
2. Tensions between North and South
3. The Civil War (1861–1865)
4. Characteristics of American Life
III. The Modernization of Russia• A. Origins—Industrialization developed slowly in
Russia in the 1850s, a country dominated by a poor agrarian society where close to 90 percent of people lived off the land.
• 2. The Crimean War (1853–1856)—Russia wanted to expand into Ottoman territory but was defeated by France and Britain, aided by Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire. The defeat humiliated Russia and exposed the country’s lack of industrialization (railroads, armaments, military reform).
• 3. Reforms—The abolition of serfdom in 1861 (peasants received about half of the land), the establishment of a new institution of local government (the zemstvo, 1864
• 4. Economic Modernization—The government encouraged and subsidized private railway companies that delivered and exported
III. The Modernization of Russia• B. The Russian Revolution of 1905
• 1. Military Defeat—In a spirit of territorial expansion, Russia set its eye on northern Korea, which led to conflict with Japan. The Japanese decisively defeated the Russians in the Russo-Japanese war 1904–1905
• 2. Bloody Sunday—A massacre of workers and families peacefully protesting at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in January 1905. This event turned many against the czar and triggered a revolution that overturned absolutist tsarist rule.
• 3. Czarist Reforms—A general strike in October 1905 forced the tsar to issue the October Manifesto, granting full civil rights and a popularly elected Duma (parliament with real legislative power elected indirectly by universal male suffrage).
III. Modernization of the Ottoman Empire• 1.The Ottoman Empire—In the early nineteenth
century, the Ottomans suffered military defeats, but won victories in the Islamic Holy Lands and Sudan under the Ottoman governor of Egypt Muhammad Ali His growing power and influence threatened to depose Ottoman sultan Mahmud II
• 2. The Tanzimat—European military and economic competition spurred an era of radical reforms known as the Tanzimat (“Reorganization”) in which reformers sought to remake the empire on a western European model. Sultan Abdul Mejid (r. 1839–1861) issued the Imperial Rescript of 1856.
• 3. The Consequences The Ottoman imperial economy was dependent on the West for loans, and liberal reforms failed to curb growing nationalism.
• 4. The Young Turks—Fervent patriots who seized power in 1908 and forced Sultan Abdülhamid II.
IV. The Responsive National State,
1871–1914
A. The German Empire
1. Structure
2. The Kulturkampf
3. Anti-Socialist Reforms
4. William II (r. 1888–1918)
IV. The Responsive National State,
1871–1914
B. Republican France
1. The Paris Commune
2. Stabilizing Factors
3. Republican Legislation
4. The Dreyfus Affair
IV. The Responsive National State,
1871–1914
C. Great Britain and Ireland
1. Political Reforms
2. Social Welfare Legislation
3. Irish Home Rule
IV. The Responsive National State,
1871–1914
D. The Austro-Hungarian Empire
1. The Dual Monarchy
2. Austria
3. Hungary
V. The Nation and the People
A. Making National Citizens
1. Challenges to Unity
2. Nationalism’s Popularity
3. Symbols and Rituals
V. The Nation and the People
B. Nationalism and Racism
1. Scientific Understandings
2. Persecution and Exclusion
C. Jewish Emancipation and Modern Anti-Semitism
1. Jewish Emancipation
2. Anti-Semitism
3. Zionism
VI. Marxism and the Socialist Movement
A. The Socialist International
1. The German SPD
2. The First International
3. The Second International
VI. Marxism and the Socialist Movement
B. Unions and Revisionism
1. Militant Rhetoric and Moderate Action
2. Reasons for Moderation
3. Revisionism
4. National Differences