Effects of the French revolution on Hapsburg empire Italy and Germany Answer
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A revolutionary movement swept with unprecedented speed across the breadth of Europe in the early months of 1848. Declared the “Springtime of the Peoples” by contemporaries and known to history as the Revolution of 1848, the upheaval proved extremely short-lived. By the summer of 1849, the forces of revolution across the continent had been resoundingly defeated. Despite the movement’s complete failure, the Revolution of 1848 nevertheless played a profound role in shaping the modern history of Europe.
Driven by a varied mixture of classical liberalism, Romanticism, and nationalism, the revolutionary outbreak began in Italy in January of 1848 and spread like wildfire across Central and Eastern Europe. At its height, the revolutionary furor engulfed the disunited Germanic states of Northern Europe and Italian states on the southern part of the continent. The multinational and multiethnic mass of Central and Eastern Europe under the rule of the Hapsburg Empire also burst forth in revolt. In total, all or part of many modern-day nations—including France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Romania—were directly affected by revolution. Of the major European powers at the time, only such industrialized and liberal nations as England and the Netherlands, the autocratic regime of the Russian Empire, and the then introverted Iberian Peninsula and Ottoman Empire remained impervious to the revolutionary outbreak that gripped the continent.