Thursday, October 16, 2008

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

Nationalism is having pride for your country it was also the start of world war one. During the 1800s many people decided to make nation-states. Nationalist weren't loyal to kings or the government they were loyal to the people and fought for their rights as citizens. Nationalist spoke about unity, freedom and gaining right of independence.
Nationalism was how Italy got to become a country. Nationalism was the how many countries became countries, most countries were all formed together with an empire and as nationalism started to grow empires were getting destroyed n countries started to rise up. Italy was unified from 1858-1870. Italy was unified by Cavour after he defeated the Austrians with the help of the French army.

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