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THE GROWTH OF NATIONALISM Nationalism - pride in one’s country and its independence Napoleon spread this idea to all of Europe People began to want to unify their lands in to nations (Italy & Germany)

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Page 1: THE GROWTH OF NATIONALISM  Nationalism - pride in one’s country and its independence  Napoleon spread this idea to all of Europe  People began to want

THE GROWTH OF NATIONALISM Nationalism - pride in one’s country and its

independence Napoleon spread this idea to all of Europe

People began to want to unify their lands in to nations (Italy & Germany)

Page 2: THE GROWTH OF NATIONALISM  Nationalism - pride in one’s country and its independence  Napoleon spread this idea to all of Europe  People began to want

Congress of Vienna 1815: International Conference called to

remake Europe after Napoleon GOAL: to create a balance of power & preserve

peace by putting down all nationalist movements

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ITALY

In the 1800s Italy was a number of city-states

4 men fought to rid Italy of foreign rule

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Italian Unification

Giuseppe Mazzini- father of Italian nationalism

Founder of Young Italy Secret nationalist

society

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Italian Unification

Camilo di Cavour Persuaded

Napoleon III to fight against Austria in order to free Lombardy

Freed land was transferred to Italy

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Italian Unification

Giuseep Garibaldi Member of Young

Italy Leads a volunteer

army known as Red Shirts Won control of

Southern Italy

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United Italy

A united Italy was formed in 1861

Victor Emmanuel as King Missing Rome and

Venetia

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Germany At the beginning of the 1800s Germany was a

collection of 100s of independent states Napoleon reduced the number of states

Called the Rhine Conferedation Two largest states Prussia and Austria

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GERMANY

Germany was united by Count Otto von Bismarck of Prussia in 1871 Title of Chancellor

“The great questions of our day, cannot be settled by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron”

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Results of Nationalism Nationalism will plague large empires since

the ethnic groups wanted their freedom European nations were at war in Africa and

Asia because they all wanted colonies by the end of the 1800s most nations had

created large armies and navies