The Goals Of Nationalism

Nationalism is the idea that a nation should be composed of people who are united by common languages, customs, culture, and history. The goals of nationalists were to build a nation that is ruled by them instead of a foreign king or royal family. Nationalism was a threat to the Austrian’s because if they would have recognized those ideas it would have meant the dissolution of the empire. One of the significant nationalist’s movements was the Irish nationalists who wanted independence or a larger amount of self-government. Another group of nationalists was the German nationalists who pushed for political unity among the German peoples. The Greeks also rebelled against the Ottoman Empire to make their own government. The final groups were the