History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Europe 1, Seneca Falls Convention, Typewriter
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Crimean war (1853-46) and the unification of italy and germany: 1. Russia retreats from its role as guarantor of the status quo in europe: 2. This exposes austria, the weakest of the great european powers, to the ambitions of. Napoleo(cid:374) iii"s efforts to e(cid:454)pa(cid:374)d fre(cid:374)ch po(cid:449)er pla(cid:455) i(cid:374)to the ha(cid:374)ds of bis(cid:373)arck, the more skillful player of this diplomatic and military game. Expansion of the suffrage: why did it take place so broadly, and with so little violence, in the second half of the nineteenth century: 2. In france the right still did not really accept the republic created in 1871; the conflict o(cid:448)er captai(cid:374) dre(cid:455)fus" co(cid:374)(cid:448)ictio(cid:374) reflected this larger di(cid:448)isio(cid:374) i(cid:374) fre(cid:374)ch societ(cid:455). I(cid:374) ger(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) the popularly elected national parliament was dominated by traditional elites. The most threatening domestic conflict in the u. k. in this period was over whether to grant independence to ireland.