Unit XI: Chapter 23- Politics and the Culture of State, 1850-1870

AP FRQ Essays:

• Compare and contrast the foreign policy goals and achievements of Metternich (1815-1848) and Bismarck(1862-1890). (2002 A)

Other Potential Essays:

• Compare and contrast Metternich and Bismarck
• A favorite device of social critics has been to construct model societies to illuminate the problems and short-comings of their times and to project a possible blueprint for the future.  Describe and compare the utopias of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx.  What were the chief faults they found with their own societies and how were their utopias designed to correct them?
• How and in what ways did the writings of Karl Marx draw on the Enlightened concepts of progress, natural law, and reason?
• Compare and contrast Bismarck's unification of Germany with the efforts of Cavour and Garibaldi in Italy.
• Identify the barriers to German unification that existed for hundreds of years.  How was Bismarck able to overcome these?