A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

646 Part 5 • The Age of Mass Politics Japan led to the Russian Revolution of 1905. This forced short­ lived political reforms an ...

The Age of Mass Politics 647 Nationalism merged easily with imperialism, which was predicated on the assumption that the people ...

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CHAPTER 17 During the first half of the nineteenth century, small groups of German and Italian nationalists agitated for the pol ...

650 Ch. 17 • The Era of National Unification The Political Unification of Italy The Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich on ...

The Political Unification of Italy 651 (Left) King Victor Emmanuel 11 of Piedmont-Sardinia. (Right) Count Camillo di Cavour. Bor ...

652 Ch. 17 • The Era of National Unification would be necessary to achieve Italian unification. He bragged that he liked to redu ...

The Political Unification of Italy 653 sequent repression. Yet Mazzinfs effective propaganda kept the Italian question alive in ...

654 Ch. 17 • The Era of National Unification Pope Pius XI on the special train given to him by Napoleon III, who pro­ tected pap ...

The Political Unification of Italy 655 Map 17.1 The Unjfication of Italy, 1859-1870 The unification of Italy by Piedmont-Sardini ...

656 Ch. 17 • The Era of National Unification Cavour and Victor Emmanuel now believed that France had betrayed them. Austria lost ...

The Political Unification of Italy 657 situation. If Garibaldi marched against Rome, France might declare war because of the thr ...

658 Ch. 17 • The Era of National Unification population was illiterate in 1871 and 50 percent in 1900, even though the peninsula ...

The Political Unification of Italy 659 Italian Politics The king of Italy ruled through a premier and parliament. The electoral ...

660 Ch. 17 • The Era of National Unification The Rise of Italian Nationalism In a country wrought by political division, aggress ...

The Unification of Germany 661 the “big German” ideal, whereby Austria would dominate an expanded Ger­ man Confederation. Third, ...

662 Ch. 17 • The Era of National Unification insane. Crowned following Frederick William’s death in 1861, William I made clear f ...

The Unification of Germany 663 France had revealed serious inadequacies in the Prussian army. The minis­ ter of war proposed exp ...

664 Ch. 17 • The Era of National Unification Bismarck was a very complex man, both a man of iron and one easily moved to tears. ...

The Unification of Germany^665 Map 17.2 The Unification of Germany, 1866-1871 The unification of Ger­ many by Prussia included t ...