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Irredentism

  • RevanchismIn 1870, French students sat in classrooms where textbooks like Albert Bettannier's La Tache Noire taught them about the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine.
  • IrredentismThe phrase Italia irredenta, meaning unredeemed Italy, emerged in the late 19th century to describe Italian territories still held by Austria-Hungary.
  • Kuril Islands disputeOn the 7th of February 1855, representatives from the Russian Empire and Tokugawa Japan signed the Treaty of Shimoda in Edo.