Italian Unification

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Italian Unification
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• Italians struggled, they still struggle, as do
  Poland, Germany, and Hungary, for country and
  liberty for a word inscribed upon a banner,
  proclaiming to the world that they also live,
  think, love, and labour for the benefit of all.
  They speak the same language,... they kneel
  beside the same tombs, they glory in the same
  tradition and they demand to associate freely,
  without obstacles, without foreign domination, in
  order to elaborate and express their idea to
  contribute their stone also to the great pyramid
  of history. It is something moral which they are
  seeking and this moral something is in fact,
  even politically speaking, the most important
  question in the present state of things. It is
  the organisation of the European task.

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The HeartGiuseppe Mazzini
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The Brains-Camillo di Cavour(The Man with the
Plan)
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The SwordGiuseppe Garibaldi
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Is unification of Italy a good thing? Why or why
not?
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German Unification
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Kaiser Wilhelm I
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Otto von Bismarck
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1864

• Austria Prussia formed alliance
• Went to war against Denmark (North)
• Won the provinces Schleswig (Prussia) Holstein
  (Austria).
• Why?

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1866

• Bismarck stirred up conflicts with Austria on
  Schleswig-Holstein border.
• Austria declared war in 1866 (Seven Weeks War)
• Prussians (and Italy) beat Austria.
• Austria lost Venetia to Italy
• Prussia gained more northern territory.
  Finally-a contiguous country.

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1870

• A few southern German states still not part of
  confederation.
• Bismarck made it look like French ambassador
  insulted Prussian king. (Ems telegram,
  Franco-Prussian War)
• Southern Germans join confederation