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What was France's role in Italian unification?

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As chancellor of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck followed which of the following policies?


A) He instituted vital liberal land reforms to win poor peasants over to support him.
B) He largely bypassed parliament in pursuing his political goals of military modernization.
C) He favored the general staff because he was totally dependent on the Prussian military.

D) A) and B)
E) A) and C)

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How is the Zollverein best described?


A) It was the German states' customs union dominated by Prussia.
B) It was a conservative German nationalist group bent on unification of the country.
C) It was the lower house of the Prussian parliament.

D) None of the above
E) All of the above

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Why was Piedmont the paramount power in Italy?

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Bismarck goaded the Austrians into war in 1866 with the occupation of which of the following regions?


A) Lorraine
B) Schleswig-Holstein
C) Saxony

D) A) and C)
E) A) and B)

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How was Marxism different from early socialism?

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During the Franco-Prussian War, which of the following events proved decisive?


A) Napoleon III successfully defended the French homeland.
B) The French were decisively defeated at the Battle of Sedan.
C) Bismarck allowed the Prussian army to fall into a subordinate position.

D) A) and C)
E) All of the above

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How is Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian-born leader of German unification, best described?


A) He instituted the Zollverein, the German customs union that drove industrial development.
B) He practiced Realpolitik in conducting domestic and foreign policy.
C) He was a liberal from lower-class origins who used politics to achieve his reform goals.

D) All of the above
E) None of the above

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Otto von Bismarck belonged to which of the following classes?


A) The working class
B) The industrial middle class
C) The Junker class

D) None of the above
E) All of the above

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What are the key principles of Materialism?

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How was the Second Empire in France created in 1852?


A) Through the assassination of Louis Napoleon
B) When the army overthrew the Republic in a coup
C) When French voters overwhelmingly voted for the restoration of the empire

D) None of the above
E) All of the above

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What was the result of the Ausgleich or Compromise of 1867?


A) It created a loose federation of ethnic states within the Austrian Empire.
B) It created the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
C) It made Austria part of the North German Confederation.

D) All of the above
E) B) and C)

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How are the Russian zemstvos best described?


A) Radical, populist societies that supported all revolutionary causes
B) Local assemblies with limited self-governing powers
C) Agreements between peasants and landlords concerning work rules

D) A) and B)
E) All of the above

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Which of the following was an overall result of the Crimean War?


A) The reinforcement of the Concert of Europe until World War I
B) Continued Russian expansionism in Europe for the next two decades
C) The destruction of the Concert of Europe and the creation of opportunities for Italian and German national unification

D) All of the above
E) B) and C)

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Describe the key principles of Realpolitik.

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The dispute that sparked the Franco-Prussian War centered on which of the following?


A) The candidacy of a member of the Hohenzollern dynasty to the Spanish throne
B) Bismarck's decision to invade Luxembourg
C) The French invasion of Alsace and Lorraine

D) A) and B)
E) None of the above

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The positivist Auguste Comte was responsible for which of the following?


A) Posing an evolutionary theory that supplanted Darwin's
B) Founding the discipline of sociology
C) Helping to remove theology as a subject from university curricula

D) A) and C)
E) A) and B)

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What is the main argument of Darwin's On the Origin of Species?

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To what extent did the abolition of serfdom solve Russia's problems? To what extent did it create new ones?

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What was the result of the 1867 Reform Act?

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