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The start of the French Revolution started with the storming of the Bastille which was lead by the French people to get weapons from the military fortress.
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Toussaint L'Ouverture led the revolution that took place in Haiti. L'Ouverture was a slave from Haiti and was therefore able to start the revolution by having the slaves on his side.
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Haiti after fighting the French for years finally gains independence from the country
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Napoleon is crowned emperor of France after being a military hero.
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Father Miguel was a priest in Mexico and disagreed with the Spanish so he started to inspire the revolution but sadly dies before it becomes a full blown revolution.
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San Martin liberated the southern part of South America by liberating both Argentina and Chile.
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San Martin liberated both Argentina and Chile making him the leader of the south.
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Colombia was the first country that Bolivar helped liberate.
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Simon Bolivar played a major role in liberating South America and liberated his home country of Venezuela.
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Peru was liberated in 1821 making it the third country to be liberated by Bolivar.
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Spain signs the Treaty of Cordoba which makes Mexico independent.
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Ecuador was liberated after Colombia and Venezuela and Peru were making it the fourth country that Bolivar liberated.
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Bolivia is the last country that Bolivar liberates about three years after his last liberation.
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Young Italy was an organization that was created to unite all of Italy. Mazzini created it while in exile.
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Zollverein was an easy way for trade to go on between the German states without tariffs. Railroads were built to connect these German states. The people were also allowed to travel between these states easily.
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Victor was crowned the first king of the unified Italy. His Prime Minister was Camillo Cavour.
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Italy joined Great Britain during the war along with France and Turkey to fight Russia.
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A group of volunteers led by Garbaldi sail to Sicily to conquer it.
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Cavour becomes the first Prime Minister of the new united Italy after being a person of importance during the unification.
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Otto von Bismark was appointed Prime Minister by King Welhem to unite all German states.
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The Blood and Iron speech was by Otto von Bismark about the unification of the Germany states.
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The first of three wars that Prussia engaged in to get all German states united. Prussia allied with Austria to get Holstein and Schleswig under control. These states at the time were owned by Denmark.
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Prussia still needed to gain control of some German states that Austria had. They decided to go to war with their former ally Austria. Prussia decided to not completely destroy Austria because they knew Austria would want revenge.
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Prussia now had almost all of the German states united but still had a few missing that were near France so therefore sided with France. Prussia decided to go to war with France to prove to these small German states that France was weak and could not protect them.
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The Second Reich was the second of three empires that had German under control . The first being the Holy Roman Empire and the third being during the time of the Nazi party. The Second Reich remained up until the end of World War I