In the Iranian revolution everyone all the people were unified against the Shah, no matter their religion or social class by nationalism. According to the post World War 2 notes all people, followers of Islam, leftists, poor, and rich joined together against the Shah. Out of their nationalistic unity and their feelings of detest for the Shah, they created the Islamic republic under Ayatollah Khomeini. The Iranian people set aside their difference and unified themselves …show more content…
Due to this factor, many groups of people felt a nationalistic calling towards their own types of people and separated from the USSR to form their own country. In the USSR, many different groups of people, Georgians, Ukrainians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Moldavians, were forced to follow the Russian culture as well as speaking the Russian language. From their misidentify with Russian culture, the Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians, had nationalistic feelings toward their own people. Due to their nationalistic feelings, it unified them more fervently to separate and have their own country. Considering the fact that citizens in the USSR, felt a patriotic approach towards their own culture compared to Russian culture, they wanted to unify themselves and practice their morals and beliefs. From having patriotism and nationalism from their own cultures, it unified everyone who believed in their culture to form their own nation.
In conclusion, nationalism played a major role in the formation of future countries and states. Nationalism sought to unify those of a specific culture or religion so that from the similarities of the people they might find a patriotic approach in creating a nation fully and formally based around themselves and their own personal