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"Under the hegemony of the First French Empire (1804–1814), popular German nationalism thrived in the reorganized German states. Due in part to the shared experience, albeit under French dominance, various justifications emerged to identify "Germany" as a potential future single state. " -
It divided italy into seven independent states -
It was founded by slaves from the US -
The english started trafficking opium, a drug, into the chinese territories leading it to start a war. -
they prefered to stay near the sea and traded with locals, most states were inhabitable to europeans because of the high mortality rates for the illnesses -
Great Britain ended up being victorious, and so, china had to give some hong kong islands to it. -
They humilliated Prussia in that process through the revolution -
It finally went independent from the US -
The effects it had in italy was a reason of why it chose to unify -
They declarated their unification to Italy (which was, at the time, named the Cerdeña kingdom) -
It was a rebellion made due to the big prices, hunger and awful economy -
this spiked crescent made the inflation and economy way more difficult than it was before -
it made the government shake -
the Austrian were defeated in the battles of Magenta and Solferino -
The victory against Austria reavivated the flame of the nationalistic spirit, the unification of parma, modena and toscana was determined. -
he aimed to restore Prussia as a Great European Power -
a parlament in Turin proclaimed him the king of Italy -
it was denied by the sardos (Cerdeñians) -
after Huags death, the movement went weak, but that didn't mean that there weren't a few more attempts in the 70's, at the end, this rebellion costed more death than the first world war -
The war began on February 1st, 1864, when Prussian and Austrian forces crossed the border into the Danish fief Schleswig. -
This was had a resounding Prussian victory, where they took territories for themselves -
it was based in the concept of lesser germany (one without Habsburgs' multi-ethnic Austria or its German-speaking part). -
Austria gave Vienna back to Italy through a treaty -
this time it was by the french -
artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, built by the french -
he had to do this due to the war between the french and the prussians that had just started -
italians are weird at protesting -
Bismarck provoked Napoleon III to start a war against Prussia, needless to say, the prussians won -
oh my god italians sure are dramatic
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he took advantage of the fact that Napoleon the third had to take out his tropes. lol. -
Bismarck proclaimed the German Empire after the war -
africa offfered european countries an open market, one that bought more from the colonial power that sold more overall -
under the command of bismarck, germany extends itself to africa -
this conference made the countries organize themselves for the conquest and comerce of africa -
the brutalities made in congo during king leopold iis were awful, native workers who didnt meet the quota were punished by having h¿their hands cut off -
China ended up losing and had to give a few islands to Japan and also recognize Korea´s independence -
There were movements, like the one made by the student Sun Yat-sen who wanted to negotiate with chinese commerciants on the exterior, and who wanted to get rid of the people in power, instaurate a republic and negotiate with the countries who had control over china -
The province of Bengala was divided in two -
he died of arsenic poisoning and was the last emperor on the qing dinasty -
they were relatively limited ammounts -
after the death of emperor guangxu, the power was lent to a little kid, it was expected for the country to be reformed by the ones who were in control but at the end that didn't happen, and the deterioration in china could be seen, so much that even other people in power gave their back to the government -
at age 7, he renounced to the throne. He ruled from 1908 to 1912 -
Only liberia, ethiopia, egba, aussa, senusiyya, mbunda, the dervish state, the darfur sulfanate and the ovambo kingdom were left retaining sovereignty -
it was an effort made by the muslims and the congress through the war -
The empire collapsed in the November 1918 Revolution with the abdication of Wilhelm II, which left the post-war federal republic to govern a devastated populace. -
They made reasearch to see if indians could vote or not -
thank GOD -
it brought the end of the roman cuestion, and recognized the little state of the Vatican as independent and soberan. -
Congress opposed it; large nationalist protests ensued, culminating in the 1942 Quit India movement, a mass movement against British rule. For their part in it, Gandhi and Nehru and thousands of Congress workers were imprisoned until 1945. -
The resolution text, unanimously approved by the Subject Committee, accepted the concept of a united homeland for Muslims and recommended the creation of independent Muslim-majority states. -
the Muslim League’s “Pakistan” resolution called for the creation of “separate states” – plural, not singular – to accommodate Indian Muslims, whom it argued were a separate “nation”. -
Attlee’s Labour government in London recognised that Britain’s devastated economy could not cope with the cost of the over-extended empire. A Cabinet Mission was dispatched to India in early 1946, -
It divided between india and pakistan and finally got its independence from the british crown -
most African colonies gained independence during thwe cold war and decided to keep their colonial borders due to fears of civil wars and regional instability -
after the events of the second world war and the separation of germany, the fall of the berlin wall is considered the first step towards the german reunification -
India abruptly ended the special status that afforded Kashmir a limited degree of autonomy within India. Phone lines and internet access in the valley of Kashmir were cut.