Revolutions and Unification

  • Start of the French Revolution

    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 leads slave revolt

    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.
  • Haiti gains independence

    Haiti after fighting the French for years finally gains independence from the country
  • Napoleon becomes emperor of France

    Napoleon is crowned emperor of France after being a military hero.
  • Father Miguel Hidalgo inspires revolution in Mexico

    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.
  • Jose de San Martin liberates Argentina

    San Martin liberated the southern part of South America by liberating both Argentina and Chile.
  • Jose de San Martin liberates Chile

    San Martin liberated both Argentina and Chile making him the leader of the south.
  • Simon Bolivar liberates Colombia

    Colombia was the first country that Bolivar helped liberate.
  • Simon Bolivar liberates Venezuela

    Simon Bolivar played a major role in liberating South America and liberated his home country of Venezuela.
  • Simon Bolivar liberates Peru

    Peru was liberated in 1821 making it the third country to be liberated by Bolivar.
  • Mexico Gains Independence

    Spain signs the Treaty of Cordoba which makes Mexico independent.
  • Simon Bolivar liberates Ecuador

    Ecuador was liberated after Colombia and Venezuela and Peru were making it the fourth country that Bolivar liberated.
  • Bolivar liberates Bolivia

    Bolivia is the last country that Bolivar liberates about three years after his last liberation.
  • Guisseppi Mazzini created "Young Italy"

    Young Italy was an organization that was created to unite all of Italy. Mazzini created it while in exile.
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    Zollverein

    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.
  • Victor Emmanuel II is crowned King

    Victor was crowned the first king of the unified Italy. His Prime Minister was Camillo Cavour.
  • Italian Role in the Crimean War

    Italy joined Great Britain during the war along with France and Turkey to fight Russia.
  • Garibaldi's Red Shirts capture Sicily

    A group of volunteers led by Garbaldi sail to Sicily to conquer it.
  • Camillo Cavour becomes Prime Minister

    Cavour becomes the first Prime Minister of the new united Italy after being a person of importance during the unification.
  • Bismark becomes Prime Minister

    Otto von Bismark was appointed Prime Minister by King Welhem to unite all German states.
  • Blood and Iron Speech

    The Blood and Iron speech was by Otto von Bismark about the unification of the Germany states.
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    War with Denmark

    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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    War with Austria

    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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    War with France

    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

    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