When looking at nationalism's effect on Europe it is obvious it had a major impact on the political landscape of Europe. In some cases it fueled revolutions and in other cases the ideal itself was its own undoing. For example in Germany and Italy there was a strong nationalist movement that worked to unite their countries into a single state giving them strong regional power. This worked out very well for these nations being that they were many small states all becoming one larger state. However in France and Austria nationalists undermined their own revolution. France and Austria were already large groups of territory and people under one government. So what they did was each little group of people attempted to make a much smaller state consisting
