How To Unify Italy Dbq

Three middle-aged European men single-handedly helped shape Europe to the land you see today. Before, Germany was a couple of Germanic states with no future of unification. Italy was seemingly worse, divided into three parts under three foreign rulers.
During the 19th century the Germanic and Italian states, with the help of Garibaldi, Cavour, and Von Bismark, united using political and physical force through Nationalism. Count Camillo di Cavour used both physical and political force to unify Italy. In his words, he said that the people wanted to drive out foreign rule(Doc. 5). It would be seen as a physical force because to drive out foreign rule, they would have needed a foundation for an army. A leader would have been considered, as well as people …show more content…
Possibilities for allies would have also been examined. Which led to France allying with Italy for support against one of the foreign rulers, which was Austria.However in this same speech, Cavour utilized political force to the country through Nationalism. Cavour expressed in his speech that the Italian people desired their homeland to be magnificent and expand their wisdom(Doc.5). Italians wished for a chance to work on themselves, without any foreign rulers keeping them in fear. To prevent Italians from becoming too strong. The people’s aspiration to advance their economy, lead to support in the expansion of industry and transportation within Sardinia, one of the Italian states. The Italian people had a thirst for building their country to be superior, with this in mind the people wanted foreign rule out of their influence in Italy’s economy. Cavour also pushed another form of political force. Cavour’s speech(Doc.5) indirectly affected the choice of King