4. How important for other European countries were moves towards Italian unification?
The international situation also played a key role in helping the cause of Italian Unification; each European country had reasons for supporting Italy or allowing unification to take place. Britain France Russia Prussia During the 1850s Prussia and Austria became rivals for the leadership for the German states In 1851 Austria engineered the collapse of the Erfurt Union, a Prussian attempt to unite the German states...