NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
UNIFICATION OF ITALY AND GERMANY
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Question
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Cavour
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Mazzini
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Garibaldi
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Bismarck
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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: -It was his leadership and accommodating policies that led to the unification of Italy in little more than a decade. Cavour was able to persuade Napoleon to a secretly planned war against Austria.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cavour led the process of unification by a diplomatic alliance in France and it started while forming a new united Europe and Italy by Giuseppe Mazzini. The process of unification of Italy started through generating votes for the locals in northern states under Italy from 1859 to 1860.