Nationalism

2. The fall of Napoleon created the beginning of the fervor for nationalism.Every nation gained a higher sense of themselves after defeating Napoleon, prompting the rise of insurgency and unity among nationalistic rebels and nationalistic supporters.
 * __NATIONALISM TEST REVIEW__** 1. Nationalism - devotion to the interests or culture of a nation in which the nation will be better off acting independently than collectively to ahcieve national not international goals.

3. The basic tenets of nationalism was that the nation would be united by individuals who shared common ground in beliefs and ruled the nation under those grievances and that they must unite in anyway possible to achieve that unity whether it be force or peace.

4. Common similarities between groups of people who share the same view of nationalism usually are hatred/grievances toward something particular, some belief or ideal that they all support or are fighting for, and an opinion that what they are doing is worth destroying the world and dying for.

5. I believe Italy was the best example of nationalism both positively and negatively in the long run. On the good note, Italy was united into the single state, multi-regional country it is with its democratic republic. On the down side, however, it took an extended period of wars and fighting in order to achieve that nationalism.

6. Mazzini was the "leader" of a secret society known as "Young Italy" and he was the spearhead of the idea of an united Italy (which exists today.) "Young Italy" consisted of exiled Italians who all became Mazzini's followers in his attempt to unify Italy and create a republic. As his fame grew, so did his followers from all of Italy.

7. If Mazzini was the politician for the unification of Italy, then Garibaldi was the warhead that united it. Garibaldi was the military leader of many of the revolts and fighting that helped unified Italy into one single state.

8. The Decembrists were a group of revolutionists in Russia who wanted to show the Czars that not everyone supported their rule. They gathered in front of the Winter Palace and attempted to seize the palace. It was stopped by Czar Nicholas I however and the Senate Square was renamed the Decembrist Square.

9 (and 11). Otto Von Bismarck was the military and political leader responsible for the unification of Germany and the precursors to everything that happened during the Holocaust. The German Empire was split into 39 different states known as the German Confederation and using all means necessary, from diplomacy and powerful orations to subversive internal actions like a secret police force, Bismarck brought it together. He was able to unite all of Germany under his rule and was able to ally himself with the Italian and Austrian Empires to take down France in the Franco-Prussian War. Because of his ideal, he was able to industrialize Germany to be a modern power of the time to fear, a precursor to why Hitler could come to power so easily when Germany depressed and fell down the ranks.

10. The Austrian-Hungarian Empire was, at first, a single empire under the rule of the Hapsburg Family. When revolts began to happen, the empire began splitting into primarily two different states within an empire; the Austrian Empire and the Hungarian revolutionaries. Thanks to Prince Metternich and Emperor Joesph Franz I, the dual monarchy was established. Both states would have their own parliament, but Franz I would be the emperor of Austria and the king of Hungary.

12. The similarities between all the four nationalism is that the all the countries involved went from separate states to one united nation. Whether the states were free or not, all the nations became full-pledged united nations whose future was written a new script because of so. However, the result of the nationalism all differs. The Austrian-Hungarian Empire eventually became their own separate entities in the world; Italy prospered with its unity of diverse regions and republic; Germany grew power up to WWI before it was brought down and gave rise to Hitler and the Holocaust; Russia is self-explained with Marxism and communism.

When most people think of nationalism, they think of preset positive symbols like their native flag or some event that brought upon the raising of the certain flag. In my case, since I live in America, the American Flag and the American Revolution and the Civil War are few of the many symbolic items we have for nationalism. But in the larger scheme, the positive symbols of nationalism are really just cover-ups to the great and disastrous negative symbols of nationalism. The nuke, for example, is one of the greater symbols of nationalism at negativity. When nations establish themselves as nations, what had to of occurred? Violence, death, creation of oppressive power, creation of subordination, weapons. The nuke represents the process in which nationalism is created and in which nationalism is protected. In order to unite a nation who is subordinate to revolt against anything that is more powerful, the answer is "the nuke." When nations do establish themselves and the people accept their new form of nationalism, "the nuke" protects it. What other than violence or weapons will stop others from stripping away what you think is nationalism? "The nuke" is the negative symbol of nationalism in which people are forced to use in order to win nationalism and to keep it in unity with each other. If not, others will use "the nuke" to suppress their nationalism and revoke it to what it was before. Another symbol of nationalism is the unity of a nation under one cause. In the picture above, people of the Middle East, in which Americans would call terrorists, are burning the American Flag. To people like me, my nationalism of patriotic proportions would scream, "Oh what horror! That is why we are in Iraq right now! We must protect our capitalist democracy and this is what the majority of us believe!" In American nationalism, anything that threatens our democracy, our unalienable natural rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness is widely accepted and conceived as a unified unit as terrorism. Back during the American Revolution, burning the British Flag was considered insubordination to England, but a sign of unified nationalism within the colonists who were tired of being oppressed and wanted their own freedom,. For the people of the Middle East, for whom Americans and westerners have plagued with problems for an extended period of time, burning the greatest symbol of western oppression, the American Flag, shows unity of their nation, of their nationalism. Nationalism isn't all just good symbols like flags or events that allowed those special flags to rise. Nationalism includes all the violence that comes to achieve it and to protect it. Burning the flag of your oppressors is a symbol of growing tiredness of being oppressed and that a revolt will soon come to do something about it, except that action will include the unity of the nation.