2. Nationalism Review
Nationalism Self-
Determination
Sovereignty
Nation State Nation-State
Unquestioning
pride for your
nation
Belief that a nation
has the right to
rule themselves
(self-rule,
sovereignty)
A group of people
with a common
characteristic
A Government When a nation of
people control
their own gov’t
A nation of
people free from
foreign rule with
their own
nation-state
3. Germany (1870s)
Causes Effects Nation
-alist
-Weak German
States
-“Blood & Iron”
(militarism)
- Realpolitik
-Unified Germany
-Becomes strong
and militaristic
-Upsets Balance of
Power WWI
-Otto Von
Bismarck
4. Italy (1870s)
Causes Effects Nation
-alist
- Weak Italian
city-states
Created one unified
Italian State
-Giuseppe
Garibaldi
-Guiseppe
Mazzini
-Cavour
5. Balkans (Eastern Europe)
Causes Effects Nation-
alist
-Many ethnic groups
under rule of empires
(Austria-Hungary)
- End of communism
break up of Yugoslavia
Balkan Powder Keg
WWI (assassination)
Bosnian conflict:
Ethnic cleansing
Serbs v. Muslims
•The Black
Hand
•Slobodan
Milosevic
6. India (1920s-1940s)
Causes Effects Nation
-alist
- British Imperialism
-Sepoy Mutiny (anti-
West)
–Gandhi’s Civil
Disobedience (Salt
March, boycott, fasting)
Indian National
Congress vs. Muslim
League
-Partition of India
-Independent Hindu
India & Muslim
Pakistan
-Religious and Ethnic
Conflict
-Nuclear proliferation
-Indian Democracy
Indian
National
Congress
Gandhi
7. Zionism (Mid-1800s-1947)
(movement to create homeland for Jews in Palestine)
Causes Effects Nation-
alist
- Anti-Semitism
-Balfour Declaration
(British support of
cause)
-Holocaust
-1948 Israel a
nation-state Mass
migration
Conflict between
Israel and
neighboring Arab
countries
-Peace prevented by
extremists
-Theodore
Herzl
-U.N
8. China (1839-1911)
Causes Effects Nation-
alist
-Western Imperialism
(Opium War)
-Spheres of Influence
-Weakness of Qing
dynasty
-Boxer Rebellion
(anti- West)
-1911-overthrow of
Qing dynasty
-1949-China becomes
Communist
Sun Yixian
9. Africa (Post- WWII)
Causes Effects Nation-
alist
-European Imperialism/
Scramble for Africa
-European empires
weakened (post WWII)
-Global Nationalist
Movements
•African Independence
•ethnic conflict
(Rwanda, Sudan)
•Problems of developing
nations (poverty,
disease, corruption)
•Apartheid in S. Africa
•Jomo
Kenyatta
•Kwame
Nkrumah
•Nelson
Mandela and
Desmond
Tutu
10. Former USSR (1991)
Causes Effects Nation-
alist
-Communist Reforms
(glasnost and
perestroika)
- Desire for Self-Rule by
many ethnicities who
lived under Soviet
(Russian) control
-Collapse of Soviet
Union
-Independent
Eastern European
nations and Russia
form democracy
•Mikhail
Gorbachev
11. Nationalism
Nationalism often leads to Human rights Violations.
Explain why and give examples.
Unquestioning pride = distrust of outside nations/groups
propaganda used to persecute
Russian Pogroms against Jews
Armenian Genocide by Turks
Rape of Nanjing
Ukrainian Genocide in Soviet Union
Nazi Germany persecution
Congolese Genocide
Reign of Terror
