... ideals of earlier decades to realities of power politics. No political force was stronger than nationalism after 1850. Threatening to destroy the Habsburg and Ottoman empires. Also pushing people toward national unity in Italy and Germany. The new generation of leaders molded nationalism to fit harsh political realities. Cavour had become committed to Italian unification. After becoming prime minister, Cavour had ... three goals. The first one was modernize Piedmont economically. Second goal was to make Piedmont the central leader for the advancement of national unification. Third, he a...

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... be achieved without economic and military reforms. Besides, external affairs and diplomatic skills were important to achieve their goal. In fact, though 1848 revolutions failed, the way for the future national unification of Italy and Germany was paved. Ideologically, Europe was turned into a new page after the year 1848. The 1848 movement dispelled the romantic dreams of the rationalists. Nationalists tried ... changed their tone. They desired revolution for achieveing liberation of indivduality and freedom of nations before 1848. Learning from 1848 movement, they were ready to receive...

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... . The second one was the Nationalism. There were two kinds of nationalism in 19th Century Europe. One was the desire of subject peoples for independence. It led to a series of national struggles for independence among the Balkan peoples. Other powers got involved and caused much instability. The other one was the desire of independent nations for governance and kudos. As the ... reflected chiefly two basic ideas, punishment of the defeated and the maintenance of the principle of self-determination. Germany lose all her past conquests. They were returned to their own national units. Germa...

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... feelings of Nationalism throughout Germany, and led to a confrontation between Prussia and France. This war, known as the Franco-Prussia War, resulted in the southern German states binding together in national unity to come to Prussia's aid. This maneuvering was as Bismarck predicted. Central Europe in 1871 bore witness to a great nation and the final steps in the unification of Germany ... ...

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... 's War and consolidating all of Germany north of the Main River, he was able to offer the parliamentarians something which was even more precious to them than their parliamentarianism, a united national state." Hamerow, p. 3 With the people's thoughts and ideas wrapped up with the thought of unification. They applauded Bismarck's actions. Bismarck successfully brought back the monarchy to the hearts of people ... ...

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... the population. The lack of supports from peasants and workers was another reason of the failure of the revolutions. For example in Germany, among the 830 representatives of the new national parliament, only one peasant and four workers were elected. Same problem occurred in the Austrian empire, after the abolition of serfdom, the peasants had got what they want, so they ... ...

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... German and Austrian possessions. In 1866, after a conflict with Austria, Bismarck announced "I shall declare war on Austria, dissolve the German Confederation, subjugate the middle and smaller states, and give Germany national unity under the control of Prussia" (Friedrich, 1987, p105). As a result was left in control of the north German states. The next step was to get the south German states ... ...

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... domestic problems and supported the army as soon as the war was declared. The press also played an important role in this, since its message was mainly of enthusiasm for national prestige in all countries. The third nationalist issue was the affronted great power nationalism. Russia had been humiliated by Austria in the annexation of Bosnia, Germany by France and Britain ... ...

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A) Nationalism was said to be ignored when: a) People were put under foreign rule. b) National unity was not granted or being hindered. B) Pros: examples illustrating the overlooking of nationalism: 1) Belgium 2) Poland 3) Germany 4) Italy 5) Saxony 6) Norway (joined with Sweden) C) Justifications for overlooking nationalism in 1815: 1. Conflict ... ...

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