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Where nationalism came from

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Where nationalism came from

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  1. Printing, mass schooling and newspapers are said to have helped create nations because they

    1. a) gave scattered populations a common language and a shared sense of simultaneous experience
    2. b) were controlled by the United Nations
    3. c) replaced religion with science
    4. d) made travel between regions faster

  2. The Reign of Terror is used in this course to illustrate that

    1. a) France never became a nation
    2. b) nationalism in the name of the people can be used to justify violence against them
    3. c) revolutions always fail
    4. d) monarchy is preferable to republics

  3. A levée en masse is

    1. a) a national assembly
    2. b) a tax on the nobility
    3. c) a trade agreement
    4. d) a mass conscription of citizens to defend the nation

  4. The war guilt clause of the Treaty of Versailles mattered because

    1. a) it divided Germany into two states
    2. b) it created the United Nations
    3. c) it forbade Germany from having a government
    4. d) it assigned Germany responsibility for the war and justified reparations

  5. Napoleon spread nationalism across Europe partly by accident, because

    1. a) he abolished the French army
    2. b) French occupation provoked national feeling among the peoples he conquered
    3. c) he asked each conquered nation to write a constitution
    4. d) he granted independence to every territory he took

  6. Germany and Italy both became unified nation-states

    1. a) after the Second World War
    2. b) during the French Revolution
    3. c) in the 18th century
    4. d) in the second half of the 19th century

  7. The immediate trigger of the First World War was

    1. a) the sinking of the Lusitania
    2. b) the Treaty of Versailles
    3. c) the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914
    4. d) the German invasion of Poland

  8. The Treaty of Versailles applied the principle of self-determination unevenly because

    1. a) no new states were created
    2. b) it was never signed
    3. c) it applied only to Germany
    4. d) it was used to redraw Europe but largely withheld from colonies outside it

  9. The slogan of the French Revolution was

    1. a) peace, order and good government
    2. b) blood and iron
    3. c) workers of the world, unite
    4. d) liberty, equality, fraternity

  10. The First World War contributed to the growth of nationalism because

    1. a) it reduced the size of national armies
    2. b) it ended all empires immediately
    3. c) governments used propaganda and total war to mobilise entire populations
    4. d) it was fought only by professional soldiers

Answer key · Where nationalism came from

Social Studies 20-1 · maddyhelps.com

  1. a) gave scattered populations a common language and a shared sense of simultaneous experience — People who never meet can come to feel part of one community if they read the same language and learn the same history. It is why standardising a national language has so often been a deliberate state project.
  2. b) nationalism in the name of the people can be used to justify violence against them — The same revolution that produced the Declaration of the Rights of Man executed thousands as enemies of the nation. The pattern — defining the nation and then defining people out of it — recurs throughout Related Issue 2.
  3. d) a mass conscription of citizens to defend the nation — Revolutionary France raised armies by calling on citizens rather than hiring mercenaries, and a citizen army fighting for its own nation proved formidable. It is the first clear demonstration of nationalism's military power.
  4. d) it assigned Germany responsibility for the war and justified reparations — Article 231 underpinned the reparations bill and was experienced in Germany as a national humiliation. Ultranationalist movements had a ready grievance to build on.
  5. b) French occupation provoked national feeling among the peoples he conquered — He carried revolutionary ideas of citizenship and legal equality with him, and being ruled by foreigners gave Germans, Spaniards and others a sharp reason to define themselves as nations.
  6. d) in the second half of the 19th century — Italy was unified by 1871 and Germany in the same year. Both are studied as cases of nationalism being used deliberately to build a state out of separate territories.
  7. c) the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 — The assassination set the alliance system in motion. Alliances, militarism, imperialism and nationalism are the long-term causes the course asks you to separate from the trigger.
  8. d) it was used to redraw Europe but largely withheld from colonies outside it — New states appeared in central and eastern Europe while African and Asian colonies were reassigned as mandates. That inconsistency became a central argument of later independence movements.
  9. d) liberty, equality, fraternity — Those three words tie the revolution to the idea of a nation of equal citizens rather than subjects. Peace, order and good government is Canadian; blood and iron is Bismarck's.
  10. c) governments used propaganda and total war to mobilise entire populations — Total war required whole societies — conscription, rationing, war industry, censorship — and justified it by appeals to the nation. Canada's own sense of nationhood is usually dated to this period, and Vimy Ridge in particular.