Unification of Germany and Italy #1 2025

Giuseppe Garibaldi may have been able to become the first leader of a unified Italy, but instead, turned over control of Naples and Sicily to _________ who was shortly thereafter crowned king.  

• Bismarck
• Mazzini
• Vittorio Emmanuel II 

• Cavour

This is the name of the man who led the unification of Southern Italy

• Count Cavour

• Otto von Bismarck

• Guiseppi Garibaldi

• Mikhail Gorbachev

Which of the following is the best definition for realpolitik?

• The use of any means to get and hold power

• trying to contain the spread of Communism

• Telling the European empires that they may not colonize in the Western Hemispere

• the use of indigenous peoples to work on European plantations

This is the name of the man who led German unification:

• Otto von Bismarck

• Guiseppe Garibaldi

• Count Cavour

• Mikhail Gorbachev

Garibaldi helped lead which part of Italy to unification?

• South

• West

• East

• North

What was NOT an objective of Otto Von Bismarck?

• Raise money to increase and expand the military

• Bring Austria and Switzerland into a unified Germany

• Reduce the power of the Austrians

• Unify all the German States

What war stripped Austria of allies and ended with the treaty of Prague in 1867?

• Seven Years' War

• Seven Weeks' War

• Thirty Years' War

• French and Indian War

Germany and Italy were made up of many _____ before 1850.

• unified countries

• organizations

• independent provinces

• none of the above

Who unified much of Southern Italy with only a volunteer army in 1860? He was also known as the sword of Italian Unification.

• Giuseppe Mazzini  
• Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Cavour
• Emmanuel II

Who most likely said the following: "it is not by speeches and majority resolutions that the great questions of the time are decided – that was the big mistake of 1848 and 1849 – but by iron and blood."

• Garibaldi

• Cavour

• Simon Bolivar

• Bismarck