Italian Unification Different country Same story Sardinia Sardinia

Sardinia Takes Over • 1 Sardinia leads the Nationalist movement in 2 Italy just

King Victor Emmanuel II • Ruled under a constitutional monarchy 3 • Wanted to

Camillo Cavour • Emmanuel II appointed Camillo Cavour 5 Prime Minister in 1852 by

Camillo Cavour • Liked realpolitik 8 • Cavour is just like Otto von Bismarck

Sardinia Grows • Alliance with France 10 that if Sardinia and Austria 11 get

Sardinia Grows • Nationalist movements overthrow Austrian-backed 13 rulers in Northern Italy 14 •

Garibaldi’s Red Shirts • Recruited a force of 1, 00015 nationalists • Called them

Garibaldi’s Red Shirts • Cavour gave him weapons 17 and ships and sent him

Garibaldi • Won Sicily 19 • Won Naples 20

Cavour vs. Garibaldi • Cavour was alarmed, worried that Garibaldi would try to set

Cavour vs. Garibaldi • Sardinia troops overrun papal states 23 and link up with

Italy is UNIFIED! • March 17, 186125 Emmanuel II crowned king of Italy •

Emmanuel Gets It All • Italy gets Venetia 28 from deal with Bismarck after

There are many similarities between Italian and German unification

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Italian Unification Different country Same story

Sardinia

Sardinia Takes Over • 1 Sardinia leads the Nationalist movement in 2 Italy just like Prussia led the Nationalist movement in Germany

King Victor Emmanuel II • Ruled under a constitutional monarchy 3 • Wanted to unite Italy under his government 4

Camillo Cavour • Emmanuel II appointed Camillo Cavour 5 Prime Minister in 1852 by Came from a Noble 6 family 7 • Willing to do anything to get what he wanted

Camillo Cavour • Liked realpolitik 8 • Cavour is just like Otto von Bismarck 9

Sardinia Grows • Alliance with France 10 that if Sardinia and Austria 11 get into a fight, France will get Sardinia’s back. • Picks a fight with Austria and won Lombardy 12

Sardinia Grows • Nationalist movements overthrow Austrian-backed 13 rulers in Northern Italy 14 • These states voted to join with Sardinia

Kingdom of Italy in 1860

Garibaldi’s Red Shirts • Recruited a force of 1, 00015 nationalists • Called them the Red Shirts 16 – this was their uniform

Garibaldi’s Red Shirts • Cavour gave him weapons 17 and ships and sent him south to Sicily and Naples 18

Route of Garibaldi’s Red Shirts 1860

Garibaldi • Won Sicily 19 • Won Naples 20

Cavour vs. Garibaldi • Cavour was alarmed, worried that Garibaldi would try to set 21 up his own country in the south • Cavour sends Sardinia troops 22 to deal with Garibaldi

Cavour vs. Garibaldi • Sardinia troops overrun papal states 23 and link up with Garibaldi in Naples • Garibaldi, without a fight 24 turned over Naples and Sicily to Emmanuel II

Italy is UNIFIED! • March 17, 186125 Emmanuel II crowned king of Italy • But they still don’t have Venetia or Rome 26 • Cavour dies 27 in 1861

Kingdom of Italy in 1861

Emmanuel Gets It All • Italy gets Venetia 28 from deal with Bismarck after Austro-Prussian War • During Franco-Prussian war France is forced to withdraw 29 troops from Rome • Italy moves in and takes Rome 30

Kingdom of Italy in 1861

There are many similarities between Italian and German unification