History 102: European Nationalism, Part II

Unification of Italy and Germany

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

Italy becomes Italy (the Italian state)

Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872)

•Revolutionary democrat

•Republican

•Land question

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)

•Republican

•Revolutionary

•Military leader

•guerilla fighter

•Land question

Count Camillo Benso di Cavour (1810-1861)

•Sardinian nobleman

•Prime minister of Sardinia-Piedmont

•King Victor Emmanuel II (1849-1861)

•Conservative

•Ambitious

•Pragmatic

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)

 

Massimo d'Azeglio

First speaker of the new Italian Parliament:

“We have made Italy, now we must make Italians!”

Unification of Germany, 1864-1871

Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)

•Junker

•Brilliant diplomat

•“Blood and iron”

•Not revolution

•1862 became Minister-President

•William I, King of Prussia (r. 1861-1888)

•Schleswig-Holstein (1864)

•Austro-Prussian war of 1866

•The Seven Weeks’ War

Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71

•Leopold von Hohenzollern

•Paris Commune

•January 18, 1871: Second German Empire (Reich) declared in the Palace of Versailles, Hall of Mirrors