ITALIAN

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ITALIAN UNIFICATION
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1830

• Failed Attempts at Independence
• Metternich sent troops to crush Revolutions in 3
  Italian States

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1848 - Revolutions

• Guiseppe Mazinni
• Risorgimento (Resurgence)
• Young Italy
• 2 lessons from the failures
• Need foreign help
• Rely on Piedmont for leadership

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1849 1878
Victor Emanuel Savoy

• King of Piedmont
• Provided the leadership needed

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1852

• Count Cavour in named Prime Minister of Piedmont
• Economic Expansion
• Built roads, canals, railroads
• Expanded credit
• Stimulated investment in new Industries

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1858 Agreement with Napoleon III

• In Compensation France would get
• Piedmonts provinces of Nice and Savoy
• A Kingdom of Central Italy would be created for
  Napoleon IIIs cousin Prince Napoleon

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1859 The Austrian War

• To make it justifiable Piedmont provoked
  Austria
• July II, 1859 France made Peace w/ Austria
• Thought war would be too long and costly
• Prussia had mobilized

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1860 - PLebiscites

• Nationalists had taken control in some Northern
  Italian States
• Plebiscites agreed to join Piedmont

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1860 - Girabaldi

• Italian Patriot
• Revolt had broken in the Kingdom of the Two
  Sicilies
• 1,000 Red Shirts landed in
• Sicily on May 11, 1860
• By July 1860 Sicily was
• under Control

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1860 Kingdom of Italy

• Garibaldi yielded to Cavour

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• 1866 Annexation of Venetia
• Austro Prussian War
• 1870 - Annexation of Rome
• Franco Prussian War