NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
UNIFICATION OF ITALY AND GERMANY
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Question
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Cavour’s success led revolutionaries in other states to overthrow their governments and join Piedmont.
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King Victor Emmanuel ordered it to.
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Enlightenment ideas
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A skilled diplomat, Cavour secured an alliance with France. The Franco-Austrian War of 1859 was the agent that began the physical process of Italian unification. The Austrians were defeated by the French and Piedmontese at Magenta and Solferino, and thus relinquished Lombardy.
Detailed explanation-2: -He made all European leaders agree to the Italian Unification at the Congress of Vienna.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cavour, however, worried that Garibaldi, a democrat, was replacing Sardinia, a constitutional monarchy, as the unifier of Italy. To put an end to Garibaldi’s offensive, Cavour ordered Sardinian troops into the Papal States and the Kingdom of Naples.
Detailed explanation-4: -Throughout the lead up to unification, Piedmont played a major role. It was one of the bigger states with more support for unifying Italy than many of the other states, this meant that any part it played was significant and seemed to have more of an impact than the smaller states with less support.