NY State Curriculum Notes     

Global Nationalism

1. Human and physical geography

2. Role in political revolutions

3. Force for unity and self-determination

   a. Unification of Italy and Germany (Camillo Cavour, Otto von Bismarck)

   b. Asian and Middle Eastern nationalism

   1. India (Indian National Congress, Moslem League)

   2. Turkey—Young Turks

4. Zionism

5. Force leading to conflicts

   a. Balkans before World War I

   b. Ottoman Empire as the pawn of  European powers

Students should be able to define nationalism and analyze the impact of nationalism as a unifying and divisive force in Europe and other areas of the world. 

They should also be able to examine nationalism across time and place.

• What role did nationalism play in Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America? 

• What role does nationalism play today in these regions?

German Unification

• Map of Germany, 1871-90

• Bismarck: an Assessment

• Bismarck - "Fling the Teacher" Quiz!

The German States after 1848

• Johann Gustav Droysen: Speech to the Frankfurt Assembly, 1848

• Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia: Proclamation of 1849

• Image Hamburg

• Map Confederation of 1815

• Map Zollverein

• Zollverein

Prussia in the 1860s: Bismarck

• Image Otto von Bismarck

• Otto von Bismarck: Letter to Minister von Manteuffel, 1856

• Otto von Bismarck: 1866

•  Bismarck and the "Polish Question "Blood and Iron Speech"

War with Denmark

• Secondary Discussion Polish uprising, 1863

• Helmuth von Moltke, On the Nature of War

• Image Battle of Koniggratz

• Otto von Bismarck, Memoirs

• Map North German Confederation

• Image Ferdinand Lassale

The Franco-Prussian War

• Timeline of Franco-Prussian War

• Primary Source Ems Dispatch

• Image Ems Dispatch

• Image War fever in Paris, 1870

• Image Battle of Sedan

• A War Correspondent in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870

The German Empire, 1871

• Image Founding the Second Reich

• The Imperial Proclamation, January 18, 1871

• Image Kaiser Wilhelm I

• Map German Empire, 1871

• Image Honore Daumier, German Unity--the French perspective

• Image German industry: Krupp factory

• Image German railway, late 19th century

• Image Reichstag building

Italian Unification

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook
• Italian Unification
• The Anthony P. Campanella Collection of Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Italian Unification in the 1800's
• Joseph Mazzini, An Essay On the Duties of Man
  Addressed to Workingmen

Italian Nationalism: The Program of Cavour

• Image- Roman Republic of 1849 discomforts the Pope and King of Piedmont
• Image- King Victor Emmanuel
• Image- Camillo di Cavour
• Documents of Italian Unification, 1846-61
• Giuseppe Mazzini: On Nationality, 1852
• Giuseppe Mazzini, Young Italy
• Image- Battle of Magenta
• Image- Battle of Solferino
•  Giuseppe Garibaldi, Proclamation for the Liberation of Sicily, 1860
• Image- Garibaldi conquers Kingdom of Two Sicilies

The Completion of Italian Unity

• Image- Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Image- Red Shirts
• Garibaldi: Report on the Conquest of Naples, 1860
• Map- Unification of Italy
• King Victor Emmanuel, Address to Parliament, Rome, 1871

Asian and Middle Eastern Nationalism

Ottoman Empire

Zionism