Unification Italy and Germany
Nationalism ► Nationalism - Loyalty to a nation rather than to its ruler Peoples’ national identity People share common language, religion, & culture
Nationalism ► 1848 Revolutions - poor and working-class people revolt all over Europe (except England / Russia) Revolutions are unsuccessful, but fuel Nationalism
Italy
Italy ► Pre-unification: Northern Italy ruled by Austria Southern Italy ruled by Spanish kings
Italy ► Giuseppe Mazzini (26yrs old) forms “Young Italy” Young Italian nationalists No one over 40 can join “Young Italy” fails, but fuels nationalism
Italy ► Count Camillo di Cavour - Prime Minister of Sardinia (Italian Kingdom) Allies with France to drive Austrians out of Northern Italy Funds Garibaldi's rebels in Southern Italy
Count Cavour
Italy ► Giuseppe Garibaldi - led Italian nationalist army called “Red Shirts” Captures Sicily and unites Southern Italy Adds land he conquers to Sardinia
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Italy ► Joint Italian army conquers Papal States (last to be added) Rome becomes capital (1871) Church keeps Vatican City
Italy ► Italy is unified and Rome becomes its official capital in ► Victor Emmanuel II is the first official king of all of Italy.
Italy ► Problems after unification: Different ways of life ► Northern Italy – Industrial ► Southern Italy – Agricultural Different dialects of Italian Economic problems
Germany
Germany ► Pre - Unification: German Confederation dominated by Prussia under Kaiser Wilhelm I Prussia - all German, strong army, industrialized
Germany ► Otto von Bismarck - Prime Minister of Prussia “Realpolitik” – Bismarck’s ideology Achieve / hold power by any means necessary ► "blood and iron"
Otto von Bismarck
Germany ► Austro-Prussian War Prussia takes territory from Austria and unifies Northern Germany
Germany ► Franco-Prussian War (1870 – 1871) Bismarck faked a telegram between Wilhelm and Napoleon III of France to start a war German kingdoms unite against France
Germany Prussian army lays siege to Paris and defeats the French After the war, the German Empire is officially declared ► Bismarck – Chancellor of Germany
Otto von Bismarck
Unification ► With Italy and Germany’s rise to power, Europe’s “Balance of Power” is destroyed