The making of Germany and Italy
Made by -
Atharva Giri
Amit Patil
Shubham Padavi
Sejal Sonar
samiksha deshmukh
Germany Unification
Germany
- Consevatives mobilised the idealogy of nationalists for promoting state power, political domination over europe.
- Middle class germans tried to unite by elected parliment.
- Leadership of prussia - cheif mimister- otto von bismark.
- Kaiser william 1 king of prussia {1871}Role model for rest of Germany.
Italy unification
Italy
- Italy was scattered over several dynastic states seven states divided.
- Only sardinia piedmont was ruled by princely houses .
- Italy was divided in 3 main empire spain, austrian and popes.
- Giuseppe Mazzinni sought to put together italian republic.
- Cheif minister Cavour succeeded defeating austrian forces in north.
- Giuseppe Garibaldi succeeded winning kingdom of two sicillies .
England Unification
Britain
- The english parliament, which had seized power from the monarchy in 1688 at the end of a conflict, was the instrument through which a nation state, with England at its centre, came to be forged.
- The Act of Union # to 1707) between England and Scotland that resulted in the formation of the united kingdow kingdom of Great Britain' meant in effect that England was able to improve its. influence so on Scotland.
- The British parliament was henceforth dominated by its english members and scotland's distinctive culture and political institution were systematically. suppressed.
- The catholic dans that inhabited the scottish Highland suffered traible repression whenever they attempted to assert their independence
Ireland Unification
Ireland
- Ireland was a country deeply divided between Catholics and Protestants.
- English helped the Protestants to establish their dominance over a largely catholics country of Ireland.
- Wolfe Tone and his United Irishmen (1798) led a revolt.
- Ireland was forcibly incorporated into the United Kingdom in 1801.
- The symbols of new Britain- the British flag