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    Chapter: Activity: Home Assignment

    Rise of To acquaint the learner with the concept of unification of


    Nationalism in Germany
    To develop presentation and research skills of the learner
    Europe
    History Assessment Class: 10

    Name:
    Roll No.:

    Maximum Marks: 10 Rise of Nationalism in Europe


    Marks Obtained: Activity: Home Assignment

    1. Read the biography of Bismarck. Find out and write how he led the drive for German unity.
    Specifically write the brutal methods Bismarck used to achieve unification on the home front.

    2. Create an annotated time line of Unification of Italy from 1830-1861. Include ten significant events
    during the times of the following personalities.
    a. Gluseppe Mazzini
    b. King Victor Emmanuel II
    c. Cavour
    d. Gluseppe Garibaldi

    Learning Outcome

    I am able to draw inference on the concept of unification of Germany.


    I am able to write the methods Bismarck used to achieve unification.
    I am able to assimilate the concept of unifications of Italy through graphical
    representation.

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    History Facilitators Copy Class: 10

    Rise of Nationalism in Europe


    Activity: Home Assignment

    1. Allot 2 marks for the correct explanation for Bismarcks drive for German unity. Allot 3 marks for the
    brutal methods used by Bismarck to achieve German unification.
    a. Two great powers claimed for leadership of Germany: Austria and Prussia. The two rival
    powers struggled with each other to lead the smaller German states.
    b. Out of the two, it was Prussia which was destined to unify Germany.
    c. Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Prussia, lead his country in Germanys unification with
    the help of Prussian army and bureaucracy.
    d. Bismarck was successful in uniting more than forty states on German soil into the
    German Empire in 1870.
    e. Bismarck was an excellent diplomat who brilliantly manipulated alliances and played
    different powers off against one another.
    f. Bismarck was a conservative and he opposed democracy.
    g. He used the decisive policies of blood and iron to build the German nation.
    h. He embarked on an ambitious program of militarization.
    i. He asserted that significant problems could not be solved by mere speeches and public
    opinion, but only through bloodshed and rattling of war weapons.
    j. He manipulated the governments of both France and Prussia to start a war that
    ultimately led to German unification.

    2. Allot half mark for each correct annotated timeline of significant events related to the mentioned
    personalities.
    1830 - Nationalist Revolutions in some states
    1831 - Mazzini forms Young Italy. Meets Garibaldi and inspires him.
    1833 - Garibaldi sentenced to death for his part in a revolution in Piedmont; goes into
    exile.
    1847 - Number of reforms carried, e.g., Creating free press, a civic guard, and Council
    of State
    March 1848 - Metternich resigned as Foreign Minister
    1852 - Cavour appointed as PM of Piedmont

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    1854 - Piedmont sent troops to support British and French in the Crimean war
    1854 - Garibaldi returns to Italy
    1856 - Congress of Paris- Cavour attended but took little part in the negotiations
    1859 - Through a tactful diplomatic alliance with France engineered by Cavour,
    Sardinia Piedmont succeeded in defeating the Austrian forces.
    1860 - Troops under Gluseppe Garibaldi marched into South Italy and the Kingdom of
    two Sicilies and drove out the Spanish rulers
    1861 - Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed king of united Italy. Death of Cavour
    1862 - Garibaldi leads an expedition to capture Rome. Wounded and captured at
    Aspromonte
    1866 - Austro- Prussian war. Italy acquired Venetia
    1867 - Garibaldis second attempt to take Rome halted by the French
    1870 - Outbreak of war between Prussia and France saw withdrawal of French
    garrison from Rome declared capital Italy

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