The balance of power of European states changed from 1848 to 1914 because of revolutions and certain unifications. ... The people of central Italy supported an enlarged kingdom of Sardinia under Victor Emmanuel. ... The unification of Germany started with the Austro-Prussian War in which the German states were in a political stalemate as Austria and Russia blocked Prussian king Frederick William IV's attempt to unify Germany. ... He eventually defeated Austria and offered them generous peace-terms. ... Germany and Austria were united and they destroyed the French army at Sedan and eventua...

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The national aspirations of many European peoples nations without states, peoples arbitrarily assigned to political entities with little regard for custom or culture had been crushed after World War I. ... However, the nationalism of Fascists did more than stress the authority of the state and insist that people exist for its benefit, it tended towards an ultra or chauvinistic nationalism. ... Terrorists acts carried out by Communists and the emergence of a Communist state in Russia, ensured that Fascist parties grew up throughout Europe in opposition to Communism. These parties gained they su...

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