In 19th century, Europe nationalism arose drastically making a big impact on the history of Europe. The main cause of the nationalism in 19th century was the effect of the French
Revolution, which caused the spread of the idea of liberalism and national self-determinism. Napoleon and Napoleonic code also affected the politicians causing political transformation in Europe. German and Italian unification was the product of the nationalism in 19th century. The unification movement that took place in Germany and Italy has similar aspects of each other. Italy’s unification involved as much drama as Napoleon III’s reign had provided France. The Italian unification was achieved by nationalist who were very different from Bismarck. Bismarck was the …show more content…
These men were: Guiseppe Mazzini, Count Camillo Cavour, and Guiseppe Garibaldi. Mazzini was often referred to as the soul of Italian Unification, Cavour was known as the brain of unification and Garibaldi was said to be the sword of the Italian Unification. The designers didn't work together in achieving unification; they in fact worked against each other. Cavour didn't agree with the ways in which Garibaldi went about unification. Each one had their own plan of attack, Mazzini's plan was to set up a Young Italy society; their aim was to put unification, patriotism, and nationalism into the minds of the young generation of Italy. This group was used in the way to educate all Italians of how noble the unification would be and how it was going to happen. Garibaldi's plan was to fight for unification. He ventured through Italy starting and finishing wars, he took over and defeated Napoleon's armies, along with Cavour's armies. On the other hand, I believe Cavour's idea of how unification would happen was to gain support of France and Britain. He created war and asked France for help. France backed Italy up by sending in some of their troops, which took some of the burden off the Italian