The Pros And Cons Of Nationalism

They would join together because they each wanted pride in their own state. They didn't want anyone else joining the that state and they wanted to establish self rule. They had both believed in Nationalism with was a major part in creating a great nation. The middle class for the liberals, which included lawyers, teachers, and business people, led the formation of nation-states and a constitutional government. Having nationalism has a great impact on countries in good and bad ways. Nationalism brings people together and people in that country can overcome their differences. Nationalism can also be a bad thing to ones country. Competition between nations can lead to warfare and extreme nationalistic groups could break out. One example of liberals and radicals coming together was in Germany. They had wanted to gather as many different German states as they could and turn it into one single nation-state. Also, in large empires, such as Austrian and Hungarians empires, want to split away and establish new rules and create their own nation-state. People wanted more nation-states, which is were a nation defends its own state because of the territory and way of life. As time went on and more change was happening, more nationalists movements were succeeding in all aspects
In 1866, Prussia defeated Austria and the Austro-Prussian war. With its victory, Prussia gained control of the newly organized North German Confederation, a union of Prussia and 21 smaller German units. With the pressure of the Hungarians, Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria split his empire in half, declaring Austria and Hungary Independent states, with himself as ruler of both of those states. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was weakening because of the disputes from the nationalists, this was happening for more the 40 years. Finally after World War I, this empire broke into several separate