1. Happy Second Semester!! On your note card . . . Name
One thing you are proud of in this class from first semester.
If you are new to class, write something from another class.
One goal for second semester
Not letter grade related, think skills related.
How will you achieve that goal?

2. Intro to Nationalism

3. Where We’ve Been Middle Ages-Feudal Societies
Hundred Years’ War ( )
Nationalism emerges in England and France
Renaissance-Slowly begin to break from feudal structure
Trade expands/people begin to move around
Reformation, Enlightenment, Sci. Revolution, Exploration
Exploration of new ideas/break from tradition
Absolutism
People rally behind monarchs
English Civil War, French Rev.
People revolute against absolute rule

4. Industrial Revolution
Congress of Vienna
Countries working together for a common cause
Relative peace between major European countries
Industrial Revolution
Creates competition/revolution

5. Where we’re headed Nationalism and WWI
Interwar Years, Revolutions, and the Rise of Dictators
Spring Paper (i.e. The Sophomore Project)
WWII
Cold War

6. In the age of industrialism, what is driving/encouraging widespread feelings of nationalism? Why now?

7. Nationalism
Nationalism is the belief that people’s greatest loyalty should not be to a king, but to a nation of people who share common history and culture. Deep devotion to one’s nation

8. Three philosophies Conservative – wealthy property owners and nobility
Wanted to protect old order and monarchies
Liberal – mostly middle-class business leaders and merchants
Wanted more power to parliaments, but limit the right to vote
Radical – wanted drastic changes to give democracy to everyone
Favored ideals from the French Revolution

9. Nationalism
Nationalism blurs the lines of the political spectrum (conservative, liberal, radical)

10. Nation-state
When a nation (a group of people with a common culture or history) has it’s own independent government, it is called a nation- state
In 1815, three main nation-states:
Britain, France and Spain

11. Non nation-states
Germany – Dozens of different kingdoms, principalities, duchies, etc – not united into one nation-state
Italy – 12 different kingdoms – not a nation-state
Austria-Hungary – 9 different languages, 8 kingdoms, 3 religions – not a nation-state
Russia – dozens of different languages, cultures, ethnic groups
Ottoman Empire - 3 continents, 3 religions, many languages
It all starts to change in the mid-1800s

12. Positives and Negatives
Positive: Nationalism can serve as a unifying force within a country
Negative: Nationalism can cause intense competition among nations

13. What contributes to and drives Nationalism?

14. Competition for materials and markets

15. Territorial Disputes

16. When a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries
Imperialism
When a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries

17. Militarism
The policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war

18. Types of Nationalist Movements
Unification
Mergers of politically divided but culturally similar lands
19th century Germany
19th century Italy

19. Separation
Culturally distant group resists being added to a state or tries to break away
Greeks in the Ottoman Empire

20. State-building
Culturally distinct groups form into a new state by accepting a single culture
The United States
Turkey