NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
UNIFICATION OF ITALY AND GERMANY
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Was an unsuccessful leader
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Led revolutions in Northern Italy, Panama, Modena, and Tuscany to overthrow their governments and unite them with Piedmont.
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Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont
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His goal was to change Italy from a group of states into one nation under one government
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cavour, Count Camillo Benso di (1810-1861) The figure who forged the Kingdom of Italy, designe d the constitutional structure of the unitary state and served as its first prime minister was the second son of an aristocratic Piedmontese family.
Detailed explanation-2: -Count Camillo de Cavour was Chief Minister of Sardinia-Piedmont state who led the movement to unify the regions of Italy. He was neither a revolutionary nor a democrat. Like many other wealthy and educated members of the Italian elite, he spoke French much better than he did Italian.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1858, Cavour allied with France against the Austrians, positioning Italy favorably against what was probably the country’s greatest enemy to unification. In 1859, Cavour provoked the Austrians at Vienna in order to incite a war that would be won for the Italians by the French.