Notes 3/15/11

• Crimean War-
• Major cause: dispute between two groups of Christians over priveledges in Palestine.  
• In 1852, the Turks who controlled the Holy Land agreed to Napolean's demands to provide enclaves in the Holy Land for the protection of the Roman Catholic Church
• First war covered by journalists
• First war to involve female nurses
• Florence Nightingale- 
• British nurse that became the founder of modern nursing when she realized that more men died from diseases than wounds
• Second French Republic
• Constitution sets up an elected president and one house in their legislature
• Universal male suffrage; could vote regardless of class or land
• Louis Napoleon was president
• He was very focused on stability
• 1851- there was a takeover of the government
• Credit mobilier
• Syllabus of errors
• Italian unification
•  King Victor Emmanuel
• Falloux Law
• Liberal empire
• Count Cavor
• The Law on Convents and Siccardi Law
• "Il Risorgimento"
• Plombieres, 1859
• Giuseppe Garibaldi, Red Shirts
• "Humiliation of Olmutz"
• Zollverein
• kleindeutsch plan
• Otto von Bismark
• "gap theory"
• Prussian-Danish War, 1863
• Austro-Prussian War, 1866
• Reichstag
• Bundestag
• Austro-Hungarian Empire
• Ausgleich
• Real politique
• the example of what was realism