responsible for the unification of Italy? Napoleon III’s contribution to the unification of Italy was decisive but inadvertent. He and Cavour had no intention of unifying Italy; Cavour was interested in Piedmontese augmentation‚ while Napoleon was concerned to put French interests and his family before anything else. He had several reasons to help Cavour‚ none of which included his desire for a unified Italy. To a great extent‚ he was responsible for Italian unification. Count Cavour‚ the
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of German Unification Germany became a unified country in 1871 under the leadership of Otto Von Bismarck. The separate states up until this time were independent‚ Prussia being the strongest and most influential‚ followed by Austria. There are several contributing factors to the unification of Germany‚ the most influential of which being the leadership of Otto Von Bismarck. The three wars that Prussia fought with Denmark‚ Austria and France also played significant roles in the unification of the
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Formation - the German Confederation created by the Congress of Vienna had 39 states‚ each having its dues and tolls on goods passim through its territory. This made goods expensive and hindered trade. For instance‚ Prussia had 67 different tariff areas within its border after 1815. As such‚ Germany was economically and commercially the most backward country in western Europe in the early years of the 19th century. Purssia took the lead to promote free trade movement in the German Confederation.
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traditional values and institutions. Liberal ideas from France and Britain spread rapidly‚ and from 1789 the French Revolution became the genesis of "liberal Italians". A series of political and military events resulted in a unified kingdom of Italy in 1861. The settlements reached in 1815 at the Vienna Congress had restored Austrian domination over the Italian peninsula but had left Italy completely fragmented . The Congress had divided the territory among a number of European nations and the victors of the
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What was the main reason for Italian Unification? In 1815 after the battle of waterloo and the end of the Napoleonic wars‚ the victorious powers met to discuss what to do to at what became to be known as the Congress of Vienna. To ensure that war on the same scale never broke out again they decided to make very little changes to the current map of Europe‚ except strengthening all of France’s neighbours. I was agreed at the conference that the ruling powers should meet in the future whenever
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Giuseppe Garibaldi was born in Nice‚ and‚ although he was a born a French citizen‚ he regarded himself as Italian. Despite the pressure placed upon him to enter the Church‚ he joined the Merchant Navy where a chance meeting with Mazzini altered the entire course of his life. One of Mazzini’s greatest disciples was Garibaldi‚ who was inspired with nationalist fervour and patriotic enthusiasm. He quickly converted to share Mazzini’s aim of a united Italy‚ but only an Italy united as a republic. A
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1820-1 Revolutions: What happened and why did they fail? Neapolitan revolt‚ 1820 Restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy in Naples Ferdinand I and chief minister Luigi de Medici introduced several measures 1818 restored church to a position of power and influence e.g. Censorship Financial difficulty after 1815 and had to pay reparations imposed by Austria for the Austrian army of occupation. Union with Naples in 1815 very unpopular The repeal of the Sicilian-British style constitution
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The Unification of China‚ led by Qin Shi Huang – the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty – was a series of military campaigns launched in the late 3rd century BC. A part of a war called Warring States Period‚ the campaign was to unify all of what was Ancient China and to solidify Qin’s rule to all of it. But before the unification was achieved‚ the seven major states had their own customs and culture. Wu Qi‚ wrote a book entitled The Book of Master Wu wherein he declared that the government and nature
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Versailles which had treated the German people in an unfair manner. Among these reversals included foreign diplomatic measures which would ensure that Germany would annex the territories it had lost at the conclusion of World War One. In September of 1938‚ with Europe on the brink of yet another major war‚ Great Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain called the four powers – Germany‚ Italy‚ France‚ and Great Britain – to convene in Munich and address German aggression against Czechoslovakia
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Essay question: Trace the unification movement within the German confederation up until 1834. What were the main obstacles to overcome? German unification‚ from 1815-1834 faced many obstacles‚ obstacles that would have to be overcome if the unification movement within Germany were to be successful. From the very beginning there were many forces acting against the unification movement‚ states like Austria were very much against the unification. The people in Austria were reactionaries; they believed
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