The Revolutions of 1848

It laid the foundations for the creation of the modern Italian state.

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That the German nations and Habsburg ones got crushed militarily. This would cement autocracy in these states rather than allow peaceful democratic assemblies.

>>2244750
THIS

Mazzini, Cavour, and Garibaldi had to pick up the pieces of the Italian peninsula and painstakingly unite them from foreign control.

>>2244729
Liberal german brewers fleeing to the US

>>2244759
and the increased strength of "eternal empire under the benevolent rule of our Christian autocratic emperor blessed by God" rhetoric in both Austro-Hungary and Russia (seriously, it approached WW2 Japan levels) helped lead to WW1.

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>implying it was anything close to Japan prior to WW2

Neither Franz Joseph nor Nicholas II were ever worshiped as deities on Earth, and both, in fact, were suffering significant difficulties in consolidating their power prior to WW1. Nicholas was nearly disposed in 1905. In fact, you could almost say WW1 provided the best excuse possible to rally the disparate populations of these fragmenting empires. Nothing beats a war in terms of propaganda potential, and the Great War was the biggest one thus known to man.