New nations, new symbols, new rivalries
Part 2 — how Germany and Italy were unified, how Britain became a nation-state, how artists pictured the nation, and how nationalism turned towards war.
In this lesson you will
- Sequence the unification of Germany under Prussia and of Italy, naming the key actors
- Explain how the British nation-state was formed differently
- Interpret allegories such as Marianne and Germania
- Analyse how Balkan nationalism and imperial rivalry led towards the First World War
- Practise map reading and a 5-mark analysis answer