After you've read each chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Determine the origins and effects of the Crimean War;
- Compare and contrast the causes and effects of German and Italian unification;
- Assess the problems of Europe's eastern empires;
- Discuss the role of liberal ideas in the political development of the United
States, Britain, France, and Russia;
- Analyze why expansive democratic reforms were possible in some countries, and only limited reforms in others.
