NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
UNIFICATION OF ITALY AND GERMANY
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Detailed explanation-1: -He was one of the leaders of the Historical Right and prime minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont–Sardinia, a position he maintained (except for a six-month resignation) throughout the Second Italian War of Independence and Giuseppe Garibaldi ’s campaigns to unite Italy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Count Cavour, Sardinia’s chief minister in the 1850’s, played a primary role in the unification of Italy. Initially he planned to unify just northern Italy however the Italian nationalist and revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi would force his hands in the south, leading eventually to the unification of all Italy.
Detailed explanation-3: -Inspired by Cavour’s success against Austria, revolutionary assemblies in the central Italian provinces of Tuscany, Parma, Modena, and Romagna voted in favor of unification with Sardinia in the summer of 1859.
Detailed explanation-4: -Camillo, the Count of Cavour, made a secret pact with the French and provoked Austria. Austria readily entered the war and was defeated by the combined forces of France and Sardinia. He merged Lombardy and Sardinia with Italy. Tuscany, Modena, Parma and the Papal states chose to be annexed to Sardinia.