Two Unifications: Italy and Germany Flashcards

376044480	Victor Emmanuel II	King of Piedmont, Savoy, and Sardinia. Eventually became first king of a united Italy. Led the north in Italian unification and united with Garibaldi's south in 1861. Appointed Count Camillo Cavour his prime minister in 1849, drove the pope into the Vatican city, and eventually made Rome the capital of Italy.	0
376044481	Count Camillo Cavour	Prime Minister of Sardinia-Piedmont who helped provoke Austria into a war which led to the unification of the northern Italian states.	1
376044482	Giuseppe Garibaldi	He organized an army of "red shirts" and conquered the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in southern Italy; then gave the lands over to Victor Emmanuel II, an action which unified the Italian peninsula in 1861.	2
376044483	William I	The Leader of Prussia who wanted military expansion, and hired Bismarck to further his goals.	3
376044484	Otto von Bismarck	Chancellor of Prussia from 1862 until 1871, when he became chancellor of Germany. A conservative nationalist, he led Prussia to victory against Austria (1866) in only seven weeks, and France (1870) and was responsible for the creation of the German Empire.	4
376044485	Franco-Prussian War	(1870-1871) Otto von Bismarck provokes the French so that his previously formed alliance of Catholic German states unified with the rest of Germany. After his victory Bismarck crowned William I emperor of the new German Empire, or Second Reich (After the H.R.E.).	5
376044486	William II	Emperor of Germany from 1888 to 1918, helped Germany become the strongest military and industrial power in Europe after making Bismarck resign in 1890.	6