9º and last session: EUROPE FROM 1848

CONTENTS: PAGES 39 TO 41.
1. 1848 is remembered as Spring of Nations, Springtime of the Peoples or the Year of Revolution (IMG 39DWN, MAP 39, Image 24 dwn). Which two historical phenomena appeared then?

2. SEE MAP 39 and distinguish between what happened in France and other places.

3. Though revolution was supressed in the majority of the cases, who was its most conspicuous victim?

4. Name three common features in the unification processes in Italy and Germany.

5. Name the three italian leaders relevant to the Unification process.

6. SEE MAP 40 and tell me which were the main two obstacles to italian unification?

7. Which political obstacle stood in the way for german unification?

8. What was the political consequence of the year 1848 in the issue of Unification?

9. Contrary to the italian case, there was only one relevant leader in this process, who?

10. Just like in Italy, what was to be the strategy the most developed territory devised to achieve unification? SEE TEXT 41 UP.

11. Which were the new nation states in Europe around 1870?

12. Which were the two dangers that crept within the seemingly pacified Europe of the last quarter of the XIXth century?