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Chapter 24. Nationalist Revolutions Sweep the West 1789-1900. Section 2. Revolutions Disrupt Europe. AIM: Liberal and nationalist uprisings challenged the old conservative order of Europe. Nationalism Changes Europe.
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Chapter 24 Nationalist Revolutions Sweep the West1789-1900
Section 2 Revolutions Disrupt Europe AIM: Liberal and nationalist uprisings challenged the old conservative order of Europe
NationalismChangesEurope Congress of Vienna attempted to restore Europe like it was before the French Revolution.
NationalismChangesEurope • Three forces struggled for supremacy in Europe. • Conservatives (traditional monarchies) • Liberals (elected parliaments run by the educated landowners) • Radicals (democracy)
NationalismChangesEurope • Competing ideals of French Revolution and Congress of Vienna caused Revolutions of 1830 and 1848
SECTION3 NationalismItaly and Germany • AIM: The force of nationalism contributed to the formation of two new nations and a new political order in Europe
IdealofNationalism • Nationalism • pride and devotion to one’s nation • fueled efforts to build nation-states • Loyalty is to the people and not to the kings or queens • A number of links bound a people together as a nation • chart on pg. 688
NationalismShakesAging Empires • Nationalism worked as a force for disunity, shaking old empires, but also for unity which helped in the development of the nation-states of today • Ex. Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire
CavourUnitesItaly • After the Congress of Vienna – Italy was ruled by many foreign rulers – (Austria and the Spanish Bourbon family) • In 1852, Sardinia's King named Camillo di Cavour as his prime minister
CavourUnitesItaly • He began to unify Italy by trying to expel Austria in the north with the help of France
CavourLooksSouth • Cavour secretly started helping nationalist rebels led by Giuseppe Garibaldi • Garibaldi would lead a group known as the Red Shirts
CavourLooksSouth • Garibaldi will successfully unite the southern parts of Italy leaving the Papal States as the last remaining area needed to unite
TheRiseofPrussia • Since 1815, 39 German states (German Confederation) was dominated by Austria-Hungary and Prussia.
TheRiseofPrussia • Prussia’s Kaiser Wilhelm I saw parliament as a threat and with the support of Junkers (Prussia’s wealthy landowners) named Otto von Bismarck prime minister • Bismarck was a master of realpolitik “the politics of reality”
GermanUnification • He then eliminates Austria in the Seven Weeks’ War to gain control of northern Germany = both eastern and western parts of the Prussian kingdom were now joined!
GermanUnification • With southern Prussia remaining non-unified Bismarck will force France into the Franco-Prussian War (1870) making Kaiser Wilhelm I emperor of the Second Reich.