How is the unification of Italy and Germany similar?

Answer 1

Both occurred around 1861, and both countries were a conglomerate of a myriad of feudal cities often fighting each other for control. In Italy, Venice, Florence were powerful merchant cities that wanted to control all of the country. In Germany, Prussia was the most powerful region.

Answer 2

1. Small, feudal states united, under the guidance of one or more stronger states that dominated the area in question united to form one strong state.
2. Each new country was largely unifying people who spoke the same language (Italy - Italian; Germany-German).
3. Language minorities existed in each unified state.
4. Each was largely accomplished out of a fear that the only way to defend the areas in question was to unite. A non-unified Germany and a non-unified Italy were at the mercy of their neighbors which had already become strong unified states many years beforehand (e.g., France and Russia).
5. A glorified (sometime mythical) past for the German and Italian peoples was a unifying theme for each movement. There was a need to recapture supposed past glory.

Answer 3

Your question is not clear. At this time most of Europe is united with their Euro dollars. However they are still separate.
The tie between Italy and Germany during the War was there Union in Fascism. Mussolini and Hitler had an exaggerated sense of Nationalism. The union was also to absorb land throughout Europe and Africa. Then Africa was dominated by European Nations, In the end if they had succeeded Hitler would have marched into Italy stole their marvelous treasures. Hitler thought the Italians were inferior to the Germanic people.Papers were found after the war to show his intentions.

Answer 4

Italy unification: began in 1815, followed by a series of wars & ended with Franco-Prussian War in 1871. Unification under a crown (Savoy). (1)

Germany unification: : began in 1815, followed by a series of wars & ended with Franco-Prussian War in 1871. Unification under a crown (Hohenzollern) (2)

One factor in the social anatomy of these governments had been the retention of a very substantial share in political power by landed elites—in Germany's case the the Prussian Junkers—due to the absence of a revolutionary breakthrough by the peasants in combination with urban workers.

Answer 5

Both happened very late in European terms and both are based on nationalist idealisation of an imperial past.