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Explains how Otto Von Bismarck used violence to unify Germany and other countries that spoke German.

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Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) / German Unification

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Otto Van Bismarck fought to unify Germany by going around conquering all the German speaking kingdoms and unified it all under one nation. Its ironic how violence brought all of Germany together

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States of the German Empire when the Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg was merged into the Kingdom of Prussia on 1 July 1876

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Explains briefly on how Italy was unified

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Italy was a bunch of kingdoms, and eventually one kingdom unified all the others, however this didn't happen peacefully since no one wanted to give up their power

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“Risorgimento” redirects here. For the 2011 opera by Lorenzo Ferrero, see Risorgimento! For the newspaper established by Camillo Cavour, see Il Risorgimento (newspaper).

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Talks about how and why the Mexican Revolution started and how it went down. Bad social structure and lots injustice acts went about

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Talks about Miguel Hidalgo and how he was a major role in the war for Mexican Independence

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Father Miguel Hidalgo kicked off Mexico's war for independence from Spain on September 16, 1810, when he issued his famous "Cry of Dolores" in which he exhorted Mexicans to rise up and throw off Spanish tyranny. For almost a year, Hidalgo led the independence movement, battling Spanish forces in and around Central Mexico. He was captured and executed in 1811, but others picked up the struggle and Hidalgo is today considered the father of the country.

Father Miguel Hidalgo was an unlikely revolutionary. Well into his 50s, Hidalgo was a parish priest and noted theologian with no real history of insubordination. Inside the quiet priest beat the heart of a rebel, however, and on September 16, 1810, he took to the pulpit in the town of Dolores and demanded that the people take up arms and free their nation.

By September 1810, Mexico was ready for a revolt. All it needed was a spark. The Mexicans were unhappy with increased taxes and Spanish indifference to their plight. Spain itself was in chaos: King Ferdinand VII was a "guest" of the French, who ruled Spain. When Father Hidalgo issued his famous "Grito de Dolores" Or "Cry of Dolores" calling for the people to take up arms, thousands responded: within weeks he had an army large enough to threaten Mexico City itself.

As charismatic as Hidalgo was, he was no soldier. It was crucial, then, that at his side was Captain Ignacio Allende. Allende had been a co-conspirator with Hidalgo before the Cry of Dolores, and he commanded a force of loyal, trained soldiers. When the war of independence broke out, he helped Hidalgo immeasurably. Eventually, the two men had a falling out but soon realized that they needed each other.

On September 28, 1810, an angry mass of Mexican insurgents led by Father Miguel Hidalgo descended on the hapless mining city of Guanajuato. The Spaniards in the city quickly organized a defense, fortifying the public granary. The mob of thousands was not to be denied, however, and after a five-hour siege the granary was overrun and all inside massacred.

The Battle of Monte de las Cruces

In late October of 1810, Father Miguel Hidalgo led an angry mob of close to 80,000 poor Mexicans towards Mexico City. The residents of the city were terrified. Every available royalist soldier was sent out to meet Hidalgo's army, and on October 30 the two armies met at Monte de Las Cruces. Would arms and discipline prevail over numbers and rage?

The Battle of Calderon Bridge

In January of 1811, Mexican rebels under Miguel Hidalgo and Ignacio Allende were on the run from royalist forces. Picking advantageous ground, they prepared to defend the Calderon Bridge which leads into Guadalajara. Could the rebels hold out against the smaller but better trained and equipped Spanish Army, or would their vast numerical superiority prevail?

When Hidalgo was captured in 1811, the torch of independence was picked up by a most unlikely man: Jose Maria Morelos, another priest who, unlike Hidalgo, had no record of seditious leanings. There was a connection between the men: Morelos had been a pupil at the school Hidalgo directed. Before Hidalgo was captured, the two men even met once, in late 1810, when Hidalgo made his former student a lieutenant and ordered him to attack Acapulco.

Hidalgo and History

Anti-Spanish sentiment had been simmering in Mexico for some time, but it took the charismatic Father Hidalgo to provide the spark the nation needed to start its war of Independence. Today, Father Hidalgo is considered a hero of Mexico and one of the greatest founders of the nation.

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Father Miguel Hidalgo kicked off Mexico's war for independence from Spain on September 16, 1810, when he issued his famous "Cry of Dolores" in which he exhorted Mexicans to rise up and throw off Spanish tyranny. For almost a year, Hidalgo led the independence movement, battling Spanish forces in and around Central Mexico.

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Libertador Simón Bolívar tried to unify all the surrounding countries and make them all one; Gran-Coloumbia. This idea never worked and now Peru is just Peru.

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Gran Colombia-Peru War | 3 Minute History

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José de San Martín of Argentina, whose aims were to secure Argentine control of Upper Peru's silver from the Spanish forces that had occupied Upper Peru and to ensure Argentina's independence by destroying the remaining Spanish power in South America.

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Peruvian War of Independence - Wikipedia

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Viceroyalty of Peru and Real Audiencia of Charcas