NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
UNIFICATION OF ITALY AND GERMANY
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Unified Countries
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Territories
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Organizations
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None of These
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Detailed explanation-1: -Yet the 1850s, so politically barren, were economically momentous, for it was during this period that the great breakthrough of industrial capitalism occurred in Germany. The national energies, frustrated in the effort to achieve civic reform, turned to the attainment of material progress.
Detailed explanation-2: -Until 1871, Germany had been divided into dozens of small states. This was the old Holy Roman Empire of the German nation, which had existed for 900 years when it finally collapsed under Napoleonic pressure. This was also known as the old Reich, or the First Reich (Reich is the German term for empire).
Detailed explanation-3: -Unification of Germany Bismarck led three wars over a period of seven years with Austria, Denmark and France culminating in a Prussian victory. Finally, Germany unified in January 1871. The king of Prussia, William I, was proclaimed emperor of Germany at a ceremony held in Versailles.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Holy Roman Empire existed from 800 to 1806. For histories of the territories governed at various times by the empire, see France; Germany; Italy.