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European Nationalism Unification of Italy and Germany, 1850-1871
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Main Underlying Causes 1)Spread of nationalism 2)Revolutions of 1848: liberalism and nationalism part ways 3)Defeat of Russia in Crimean War 4)Isolation of Austria 5)Re-emergence of France under Napoleon III
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Italy becomes Italy (the Italian state) Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) Revolutionary democrat Republican Land question
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Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) Republican Revolutionary Military leader guerilla fighter Land question
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Count Camillo Benso di Cavour (1810-1861) Sardinian nobleman Prime minister of Sardinia-Piedmont King Victor Emmanuel II (1849- 1861) Conservative Ambitious Pragmatic
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Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1808-1873; r. 1848-1870) Nephew of Napoleon Re-emerging French Empire Sounded democratic Believed in personal rule and a centralized state Made a deal with Cavour: France promised Nice and Savoy (from Piedmont) Sardinia promised Lombardy and Venetia (from Austria)
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Unification of Italy Timeline 1859Austria goes to war against Sardinia-Piedmont (and France) 1860Napoleon bails, but Austria cedes Lombardy 1860Plebescites in Tuscany, Parma, and Modena May 1860Garibaldi and thousand Red Shirts go to Sicily 1861Kingdom of Italy declared (King Victor Emmanuel)
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Massimo d'Azeglio First speaker of the new Italian Parliament: “We have made Italy, now we must make Italians!”
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Unification of Germany, 1864-1871 William I, King of Prussia (r. 1861-1888) Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Junker Brilliant diplomat “Blood and iron” Not revolution 1862 became Minister- President
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German Unification (cont.) Schleswig-Holstein (1864): Austria and Prussia against Denmark Austro-Prussian war of 1866 –The Seven Weeks’ War
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Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 Leopold von Hohenzollern Napoleon III, r. 1852-1870 January 18, 1871: Second German Empire (Reich) declared in the Palace of Versailles, Hall of Mirrors
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Paris Commune, March 18-May 28, 1871
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