Nationalism DocumentsClass Set

You are responsible for a section in the textbook. You will need to read the material for each heading and answer the questions provided.

Document Name
And description / Document / Questions for Notebook
Cavour’s Recommendation
-Count Cavour was the Prime Minister of Sardinia-Piedmont (an Italian state) during Italian Unification, 1852 / We ardently wish to free Italy from foreign rule. . . . We want to drive out the
foreigners not only because we want to see our country powerful and glorious, but because we want to elevate the Italian people in intelligence and moral development. /
  • How is this an example of nationalism?
  • What is the effect that nationalism is having on this society?

Description of the Levee en Masse
-Issued by the Committee for Public Safety, France, 1793 / The young men will go forth to battle; the married men will make arms and transport food; the women will make tents and uniforms and will serve inthe hospitals; the children will prepare lint from old linens; the old peoplewill gather in public places to raise the courage of the warriors, to excite
hatred of kings, and to preach the unity of the Republic. /
  • How is this an example of nationalism?
  • Based on this excerpt, how does nationalism change warfare?

The Marsaillaise
-National anthem of France. Written during the French Revolution, 1790 / Arise, children of the fatherland,
Our day of glory has arrived.
Against us cruel tyrants
Have raised their bloody flag.
Do you hear in the countryside
Their fierce hired soldiers?
They come almost into your arms
To attack your children and your fields.
To arms, citizens!
Form your battalions!
March on, march on,
To liberty or death! /
  • How is this an example of nationalism?
  • Why do you think nationalism is causing these people to oppose kings and “cruel tyrants?”

Speech to the Red Shirts
-Giuseppe Girabaldi to his soldiers, the Red Shirts—during Italian Unification, 1860 / O noble Thousand! ... I love to remember you! ... Where any of our brothers are fighting for liberty, there all Italians must hasten! -such was your motto. Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not with his lips only, follow me. /
  • How is this an example of nationalism?
  • Analyze the last sentence. Why does Girabaldi want only the soldiers he identifies?

Blood and Iron
-Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany during Unification, 1866 / I had shown plainly the direction in which I was going. Prussia ... could no longer carry alone the power that Germany required for its security. That must be equally distributed over all German peoples. We would get not nearer our goal by speeches, associations, or decisions by the majority... This contest could only be settled by blood and iron. There is one way to guarantee our success. The deputies must place the greatest possible weight of blood and iron in the hands of the King of Prussia. /
  • How is this an example of nationalism?
  • What is the effect that nationalism is having on this society?

The Watch on the Rhine
-German Marching Song, 1870 / The dead of a heroic race
From heaven look down and meet this gaze;
He swears with dauntless heart, "O Rhine,
Be German as this breast of mine!"
Chorus: Dear Fatherland, no danger thine;
Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine!
While flows one drop of Gcrman blood,
Or sword remains to guard thy flood,
While rifle rests in patriot hand,
No foe shall tread thy sacred strand!
Chorus: Dear Fatherland, no danger thine;
Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine! /
  • How is this an example of nationalism?
  • Elaborate based on this song. What would you say the goals of German Nationalists?

On Nationalism
-Mahatma Gandhi, leader of Indian Independence Movements, 1935 / I WANT the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country, so that the resources of my country may be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
Just as the cult of patriotism teaches us today that the individual has to die for the family, the family has to die for the village… even so the country has to be free in order that it may die, if necessary, for the benefit of the world. My love, therefore, of nationalism or my idea of nationalism is that my country may become free, that if need be the whole of the country may die, so that the human race may live. There is no room for race hatred there. Let that be our nationalism. /
  • How is this an example of nationalism?
  • What is different about this expression of nationalism? What is the same?