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Lecture 2 Key Terms

Second Republic

Third Republic

Napoleon III

Indochina

Second Opium War

Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871

Otto von Bismarck

Kaiser

Wilhelm I

Second Reich

Alsace and Lorraine

war reparation payments

Communards

Paris Commune

French Banking System

Suez Canal

Franco-Russian Alliance 1894

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Junkers

South Africa

Boer War

Alfred von Tirpitz

German Navy Bills

German-Austro-Hungarian Alliance 1879

Triple Alliance 1882

Italy

Eritrea

Somalia

Libya

Emperor Franz Joseph

Habsburgs

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Spanish American War 1898

Shogunite

Boshin War 1868-1869

Meiji Restoration

Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895

Korea

Manchuria

Congress of Vienna 1814-1815

Hague Conventions / Geneva Conventions

Concert of Europe or The Congress System

Universal Telegraph Union

Universal Postal Union

permanent intergovernmental agencies

Red Cross

NGO-non-governmental organization

Weltpolitik

Berlin-Baghdad railway

Dreadnaught

arms race

rapprochement

Anglo-French Entente Cordiale 1904

invasion literature

The Battle of Dorking

Dracula

William Le Queux

Spies for the Kaiser