Today in class we started off by getting a sheet and an atlas. I don’t really remember what was on it but I’ll try to sum it up. The sheet went through some changes after the Congress of Vienna. Power was returned to the kings that Napoleon had overthrown. Unification was probably the result of enlightenment ideas and the Congress of Vienna. The sheet also went through new places that formed as a result of unification. Some new places that appeared were Norway, Prussia and Italy. In 1861, Italy was unified, in 1867, Austria-Hungary broke into two regions, all under one ruler, and in 1871, Germany became unified. When we handed that in, we got another sheet.
We had to make a Venn diagram comparing the unification of Germany and Italy after reading the sheet. Before being unified, Italy, unlike Germany had shared language and culture. Growing nationalism was a main reason for unification in both places, and they both started off as fragmented states. In Italy, a group called Young Italy was formed to help achieve unification. The Red Shirts were a group of people that fought against anyone who was opposed to unification. Italians received help from France in their war against Austria and they finally became unified in 1861.
There were many differences with the unification in Germany, where Prussia was the most powerful state. There was not a group that helped, one man, Otto Von Bismarck, was a main contributor to their unification. Bismarck had a theory for unifying Germany that was known as “Blood and Iron.” The blood stood for the sacrifices that the Germans had to make for unification. The iron represented the need for industrialization. Germany became unified in 1871, and that led to industrialization, imperialism and later, WW1.
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