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Questions - Useful Factors - Italy Flashcards

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‘The 1848-49 revolutions in Italy resulted in complete failure’ How far do you agree with this statement?

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Consider short term vs long term for each factor
1. Piedmont
2. Clear long-term path to unification
3. Failed revolutionary action (Roman republic/Venetian republic)

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How far do you agree that the process of Italian Unification, in the years 1859-70 resulted in the creation of an enlarged Piedmont rather than a united Italy?

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  1. Enlarged Piedmont
  2. Social division and Brigands War
  3. Unified Italy
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‘The Roman republic was so short lived because of a lack of strong leadership’ How far do you agree with this statement?

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  1. Lack of strong leadership
  2. Strength of foreign powers
  3. Weakness of revolutions and lack of popular support
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‘In the years 1862-70, the obstacles to Italian unity that remained after the creation of the Kingdom of Italy were mainly overcome’. How far do you agree with this statement?

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  1. Venetia and Rome
  2. Political disunity
  3. National cohesion
  4. Continued social and economic problems
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How far do you agree that Piedmont was in a better condition to lead Italy towards unification in 1858 than in 1848?

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  1. Leadership
  2. Economic and military strength
  3. Foreign powers
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How accurate is it to say that the military strength of Austria was the decisive factor in explaining the failure of the 1848-49 revolutions in Italy?

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  1. Austrian strength
  2. Role of the Papacy
  3. Piedmontese weaknesses
  4. Revolutionary weaknesses
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How far do you agree that the main reason for the failure of both the 1830-32 and 1848-49 revolutions in Italy was a lack of popular support?

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Two timescale discussion = comparison
1. Lack of popular support
2. Foreign involvement
3. Weaknesses of revolutionaries

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How far do you agree that the strength of Austrian opposition to Italian unification was the principal reason for the slow progress made in the years 1830-48?

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  1. Austrian strength
  2. Economic and Social divides within Italy
  3. Weaknesses of Italian nationalism
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‘Cavour was the driving force behind the events leading to the outbreak of the second Italian war of Independence (1859)’. How far do you agree with this statement?

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  1. Cavour
  2. VE II
  3. Nap III
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How accurate is it to say that in the years 1848-67, Garibaldi was more often a failure than a success in his attempts to unify Italy?

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Judgments run throughout – long/short term, political/social/economic, real vs legal Italy
1. Failure of 1848-49
2. Uniting the north and south
3. Venetian question
4. Roman question

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‘Garibaldi’s contribution to the unification of Italy was outweighed by the problems that he created’. How far do you agree with this statement?

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Judgments run throughout – long/short term, political/social/economic, real vs legal Italy
1. Failure of 1848-49
2. Uniting the north and south
3. Venetian question
4. Roman question

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How far do you agree that Mazzini and his nationalist supporters achieved very little in the years 1830-56?

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Time-based approach
1. Failures 1830-47
2. Successes 1830-47
3. Failures 1847-56
4. Successes 1847-56

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‘Cavour had only a limited influence over the process of Italian Unification in the years 1856-61’. How far do you agree with this statement?

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  1. Cavour
  2. VE II
  3. Nap III
  4. Garibaldi
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How accurate is it to say that it was mainly the role of Italians themselves that shaped Italian unification in the years 1858-70?

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Two-factor approach
Italians:
1. Cavour
2. Garibaldi
3. VE II
Foreign Powers:
1. France
2. Austria

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‘In the years 1849-70 VE II played a symbolic role, rather than a leading role in the process of Italian Unification’. How far do you agree with this statement?

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  1. Strengthening of Piedmont
  2. 2nd War of Independence
  3. Roman Question
  4. Venetian Question
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‘The process of Italian unification in the years 1852-61 owed most to the work of Cavour’ How far do you agree with this view?

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  1. Cavour
  2. VE II
  3. Nap III
  4. Garibaldi

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