The Rise of Nationalism in Europe · Class 10 Social Science · Chapter 1
🏛️ The Rise of Nationalism in Europe (History)
CBSE Class 10 · Social Science · Chapter 1
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| 80% | Describe the unification of Germany / role of Bismarck — 1848 liberal failure → Prussia leads → Bismarck 'blood and iron' → three wars (1864/1866/1870-71) → Wilhelm I Kaiser at Versailles, Jan 1871. | 5 MARKS |
| 70% | Describe the unification of Italy / roles of Cavour, Garibaldi, Mazzini — Mazzini (idea, Young Italy) → Cavour (diplomacy, defeats Austria 1859) → Garibaldi's Red Shirts win the south → Victor Emmanuel II king of united Italy 1861. | 5 MARKS |
| 55% | What did liberal nationalism stand for? / Zollverein — Political: constitution, govt by consent, equality before law, vote for propertied men. Economic: free markets; Zollverein (1834) abolished tariffs, cut currencies to two. | 3 MARKS |
| 45% | Congress of Vienna 1815 + new conservatism (Metternich) — 1815, after Napoleon's defeat; Metternich; restore old monarchies (Bourbons in France); conservatism = preserve monarchy/Church/property, change only slowly. | 3 MARKS |
| 40% | The nation as a female allegory (Marianne/Germania) OR the Balkans & imperialism — Allegory = female personification of the nation with symbolic attributes. Balkans = rival nationalisms + Great-Power rivalry → tinderbox of WWI. | 3 MARKS |
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