Nationalism 3/1

• 1848- The French revolted against Louis Philippe 
• The 19th century is the dawn of newspapers. News traveled faster than it ever had before. 
• The news of the revolt spread across Europe quickly
• In Germany, the King is afraid of riots in the street that he read about in the news.
• Germany revolted against the King
• A meeting- the Frankfurt Assembly- was called to make Germany an independent autonomous state
• The decision is made whether or not Germany should become a formal state
• There are two large Germanic States- Prussia and Austria 
• These two states have enormous power 
• The Hapsburg are the controlling family in Austria 
• The Junkers were Prussian nationalists
• They believed that Prussia was better off without the rest of Germany 
• The argument against them was that they did not understand that Germany had to be a powerful state in order to compete with countries such as France 
• The Prussians decide to have their own assembly-- The Berlin Assembly 
• This assembly of Prussians turn out to be anti-Junker 
• They believe that they could work under German unification 
• Poland was coveted because it had ports 
• Germany wound up in a holding pattern for a generation in which the politics of the country are confused
• The Napoleonic Wars left Italy reeling 
• Northern Italy became controlled by Austria 
• Austria had a secret government that it used to spy on Italy
• There were underground movements that were working towards expelling Austria and Russia from Italy
• A group is founded that is called Young Italy
• Manzinni's reign only lasted for a few months
• The Pope gathered French forces 
• The Pope does not care about Italy, he cares about maintaining a French base
• He clears out Manzini and ends the attempted revolution 
• Austria 
• With the newspapers and the media, the news of the revolution leaks out to Austria
• There are Austrians that are anti-Hapsburg
• Louis Kossauh 
• He called Austrians to rise up for their own liberty, and people are against this
• 1848- Austria split into the Hungarian Diet 
• Austrians are ethnic Germans
• There is another assembly in the city of Prague
• The Slavs are anti-German 

In Bohemia: The Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia. In Prague, there are a few ethnic Germans and more ethnic Slavic. When Austria makes decisions, though, they favor the Germans.

• The Slavs revolt in 1848
• King Ferdinand sent in troops and shut down Congress
• This is the root cause of World War I  
• In Hungary there is a party called the Magyars
• They create a new capital: Budapest 
• A party stands , the Jellachich against the Magyars, and they gain the favor of King Ferdinand 
• The Magyars think that if they keep the Croats at bay, there is no way that the King would try and kill the Magyars. 
• Austria sent 100,000 Russian troops into Germany