The Concert of Europe 1815-1914

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1. __________ brilliantly represented defeated France at the Congress of Vienna. Answer: (He served King, Republic, Directory and Empire.)

2. This state was nominally in charge of the German Confederation: Austria Russia Prussia Bavaria

3. Once an independent city-republic, Dubrovnik was absorbed into the French Illyrian Provinces and then passed to this power after the Congress of Vienna: Britain (British Ionian Islands) Ottoman Empire Austria Croatia-Slavonia

4. What best characterises the mood of the Congress system? Conservatism Nationalism Liberalism Self-determination

5. The Holy Alliance (a pact between Russia, Prussia and Austria) was organised to combat nationalism and revolution wherever it reared its head. In 1830, the Alliance responded quickly to quell Italian and Polish revolts, but failed to move against the revolution in this great power: ____________ . Answer: (One word)

6. What great Congress leader was fundamentally opposed to any international action on behalf of the people of Greece in 1820 (at that time seriously rebelling against Ottoman rule for the first time): _________ . Answer: (One word (fell from power in 1848).)

7. A series of questions about the momentous year 1848: What event triggered the spate of revolutions and uprisings in this year? The assassination of King Bellocosi of Naples The overthrow of Emperor Ferdinand The overthrow of the French King The overthrow of Nicholas II

8. Austria faced the most threats in 1848. One from Italy, one from Hungary, one from Bohemia and one in Vienna. At this battle Radetsky crushed Piedmontese and Italian hopes for an independent Venetian Republic (and in the process got a March named after him for his efforts!): Magenta Modena Solferino Custozza

9. Jelacic was another general who did his bit to save the Habsburg realm. Of what nationality was he? Austrian Hungarian Croatian Slovenian

10. Which Austrian General had the honour of reclaiming the Imperial capital for the Habsburgs? Windischgrätz Radetsky Haynau Rudiger

11. This man, formerly head of the National Defence Committee, was chosen to lead the Republic of Hungary in 1849: ________ . Gorgey Debrecen Paskevitch Kossuth

12. This man's rule began in December 1848: Napoleon III Nicolas I Franz Josef William IV

13. Which Frenchman seized power in a coup during the confused aftermath of the 1848 revolution? Louis-Napoleon Boulanger Napoleon III Lamartine

14. This country, ____________, was part of the military alliance aimed against Russia in the Crimean War but did not declare war. Instead she kept threatening to, thus pinning down countless Russian divisions (over 300,000 men), who otherwise would have been fighting the Allies in the Crimea. Austria Sweden Prussia Persia

15. The Congress of Berlin, which ended the 1878 Eastern Crisis, overturned which treaty: Treaty of Berlin San Stefano The Edirne Pact Treaty of Nikopol

16. This was the deciding battle of the 1866 Seven Weeks War: ___________. Mnicnovo/Hradiste Brunn/Brno Konniggrätz/Sadowa Nikolsberg/Mikulov

17. They endured the Italian wars, the Crimean War and the Mexican escapade, but the reaction of the people of Paris to Napoleon III's defeat at Sedan was: Napoleon was assassinated by an Anarchist Execution by a mob of the Royal Family/Ministers Proclamation of a Republic under a radical Commune Welcomed the Prussians as liberators

18. Which country was crushed in the Second Balkan War (1913)? Ottoman Empire Greece Bulgaria Serbia

19. 'Ausgleich' was the name of the political/social reform Austria offered Hungary in 1867. What was the name of the similar reforms offered by Hungary to Croatia? Answer: (One word. Compromise.)

20. The Concert of Europe was drowned out by the 'Guns of August' 1914. Which of these countries was the first to mobilise? France Germany Russia Great Britain