NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
UNIFICATION OF ITALY AND GERMANY
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Question
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A unified German state.
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A separation of the empire.
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A new legislature.
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To be part of Russia.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Economic success, political failure, and diplomatic tension marked the idea of a unified Germany in the period after the Napoleonic Wars. Prussian merchants, with the support of the Prussian crown, established the customs and trade union known as the Zollverein in 1834.
Detailed explanation-2: -German unification was achieved by the force of Prussia, and enforced from the top-down, meaning that it was not an organic movement that was fully supported and spread by the popular classes but instead was a product of Prussian royal policies.
Detailed explanation-3: -Despite the opposition of conservative forces, German unification came more than two decades later, in 1871, following the Franco-Prussian War, when Germany was unified and transformed into an empire under Emperor Wilhelm I, king of Prussia.