Italian & German Unification The unification of Italy and the unification Germany happened about the same time. Italy was made up of small city-states and Germany was divided as well. The emerging leader in Italy who pushed for unification was a gentleman named Count Camillo Benso de Cavour. In Germany it was a gentleman named Otto Von Bismarck. Cavour and Bismarck had some similar and different methods for unification. Ultimately‚ Cavour and Bismarck were successful in unifying their own areas
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By 1871‚ Europe was remapped with the rise of two newly united nations - the Kingdom of Italy and the German Empire. The unification movements of both countries took place at roughly the same time in the mid-19th century and were motivated by the same historical trends - liberalism and nationalism. Before the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte‚ both Italy and Germany shared some similar features. Italy was divided into a number of separate states which were ruled by despotic kings. Yet the
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German Unification (1850-1871) Summary Whereas Camillo di Cavour directed Italian unification‚ a Junker (the Prussian name for an aristocratic landowner from old Prussia in the east) named Otto von Bismarck pushed German unification through "blood and iron" and skillful understanding of realpolitik. As the map of central Europe stood in 1850‚ Prussia competed with Austria for dominance over a series of small principalities fiercely keen on maintaining their independence and distinctive characteristics
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conservatism would eventually destabilize their authoritative legitimacy. Thus‚ leaders such as Otto von Bismarck adopted a new kind of conservatism‚ mixing both liberal‚ semi-socialistic and conservative policies in order to keep a balance that would ensure some stability in his state. For Otto von Bismarck‚ his international policies were more conservative; he promoted nationalism‚ unification‚ and state sovereignty. His domestic policies‚ however‚ were more liberal; he allowed for progressive social
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Bismarck and the Unification of Germany Source 1: In view of the attitude to France‚ our national sense of honour compelled us‚ in my opinion to go to war; and if we did not act according to the demands of this feeling‚ we should lose... the entire impetus towards our national development won in 1866‚ while the German national feeling south of the Main‚ aroused by our military successes in 1866;… would have to grow cold again… Under this conviction I made use of the royal authorization communicated
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The Beginning: ¥ Attempts to unify Germany actually started during the revolutions that swept through Europe in the spring of 1848 ¥ Germans lent their voices to the cry of national unity and equality. Why?? ¥ Germany in 1848 was not a unified state. ¥ It was a confederation of States made up of 39 individual German countries all under the rule of the hatred Austria ¥ Therefore German people were scattered all over Europe with no sense of identity‚ culture or feelings of national pride.
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When Bismarck was appointed Prussian chancellor in 1862 by King Wilhelm IV‚ The democratic attempt of unifying Germany had failed and there was widespread sentiment among the Germans in favour of unification. There were a number of obstacles in Prussia’s way of unifying Germany. Among them were foreign powers’ interests in Germany‚ In other words‚ In order for Bismarck to unify Germany he had to eliminate all the other powers that posed a threat to German unification. Since the political approach
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German Foreign Policy International Relations 1871 - 1914 Part 1 1 Background Unification of Germany The Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 redrew the map of Europe and established the Confederation of German States (39 of them) which were under the control of Austria-Hungary. 2 Germany 1815 3 German Unification Prussia‚ the largest of these states‚ wanted to end Austrian domination and unite the states into a new German Empire under her own
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creation of the empire was one of the most important developments of the nineteenth century. However‚ the process by which Germany came to be unified has been and area of heated historical debate ever since. There are many people and events to consider in weighing up contributions to unification‚ but no one man was more central to the process of unification than Otto Von Bismarck. Bismarck became chancellor of Prussia in 1962 and his main aim was to unify the 39 German states under Prussian rule. Some historians
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Compare and contrast the role that nationalism played in Italy‚ Germany‚ and Austria in the years between 1848 and 1871. • Italy Failure of the Revolutions of 1848 o Austrian Forces were driven out of Northern Italy and Mazzini established the Roman Republic in 1849. o Failure of Italian revolutionaries to work together resulted in Austria and France taking control of Italy. Italian Unification o Italian Unification- unification movement in Italy shifted to Sardinia-Piedmont under King Victor
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