Stips Realpolitik Review
8.1
Italian Unification
Russia
German Unification Part I
German Unification
Third French Republic
http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Assass.html Alexander II goes out with a bang!
http://www.uncp.edu/home/rwb/Ems%20Telegram.htm Ems Dispatch
http://www.h-net.org/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/speech.html Iron and Blood
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REnightingale.htm Florence Nightingle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj5bilCQEDU Charge of the Light Brigade
http://www.nationalcenter.org/ChargeoftheLightBrigade.html Poem of the Light Brigade
http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/revs/1848time.html 1848 Time Line
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSsunday.htm Bloody Sunday
http://college.cengage.com/history/west/mckay/western_society/7e/students/index.html Practice Test Chapter 23 and 25
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/people/BIOS/dreyfus.htmlDreyfus Affair
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/sandersonAP/ Dreyfus Account
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/08/15/2003267815 Russo-Japanese War
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/n/nicholas_ii_czar_of_russia/index.html
NY Time Articles on the Czar pick one.
http://polarbears.si.umich.edu/index.pl?node=polar%20bear%20history Archangel or Polar Bear
http://www.nevsky88.com/SaintPetersburg/Revolution/ Photo's of the Russian Rev
http://www.history.com/topics/russian-revolution History Channel on Russia Rev
http://history1900s.about.com/od/famouscrimesscandals/a/rasputin.htm Rasputin
http://it.stlawu.edu/~rkreuzer/indv5/rasp.htm Rasputin
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/nicholas.htm Nich II Death
Anti-Semitism
http://www.marxists.org/archive/zola/1898/jaccuse.htm Letter J accuse
http://www.marxists.org/history/france/dreyfus-affair/index.htmhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Dreyfus.html Story
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005175Antisemitism site
http://www.ushmm.org/http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/promisedland.htmhttp://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/people/BIOS/dreyfus.html
Dryfus Affair
http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Assass.html Alex II
3 comments:
Other than the semi-frequent grammatical errors throughout the post, the Ems Telegraph debacle was very interesting. I knew of the incidents, but not necessarily how or what it said. The fact that the single telegraph was modified by Bismark to exploit France's anger and Prussia's pride to incite a war was ingenious. Bismark proved to be a very successful leader and thinker, With Blood and Iron Bismarck truly made outstanding efforts to urge Germany to become a united and most powerful nation in Europe.
Tsar Alexander II death was a very violent and odd death. Although the tsar was warned many times by his man Loris Marikov to not proceed in appearing in the parade, and wait until the assembly to appear before the public, ALexander II did so anyways, knowing the danger he put himself in. On the way back to the Winter Palace he was attacked. The smart thing to do was stay in his armoured carriage as his coachman said, but the Tsar, attempting at nobility and pride, confronted his now arrested bomber. As he did so, of course, a second bomber threw one between himself and the Tsar, wounding badly but not intantly killling both. At this point, the Tsar was abandoned and left bleeding in the streets, I think this is terrible, being it that Alexander II attempted to do much in the benefit of Russia, and it was a third bomber who rushed to his aid, not his subjects. The death of Alexander II was a pitiful tragedy that was, in a morbid way, befitting of his pitiful life.
The execution of the Imperial family was very brutal. The narrative that they provided differed slightly from the one that you provided in class (the jewels and coins were in pillows and they weren't said to have gone downstairs for a picture). As far as executions go, it isn't said whether they were shot at the same time or one by one (one by one would probably be worse). Additionally, the narrative makes no mention of bludgeoning the family, which I suppose is a good thing.
The assassination of Tsar Alexander II was another somewhat brutal death. In this case, he knew that there were plots on his life and was advised against being in the parade. He did so anyways, and a bomb was thrown under the carriage, damaging it. The bomb had injured some of the surrounding Circassians (an ethnic group). Alexander was advised not to go out but he did not listen to this either. He approached the bomber and another bomber threw a bomb between Alexander and himself, blowing both up partially. Tsar Alexander II died a few hours later from the injuries. Ironically, Alexander II had been the most reform oriented Russian leader since Peter the Great and had freed the serfs, but he was still assassinated.
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