History A-Level
Foreign intervention and great-power politics
What Foreign intervention and great-power politics means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Austrian military intervention under Radetzky defeated Piedmont at Custoza and Novara, and French intervention in 1849 crushed the Roman Republic, while no major power backed Italian unification.
Topics that use Foreign intervention and great-power politics
- Paper 2, Option 2D.1: The unification of Italy, c1830–70 - 1 Challenges to the restored order and the failure of revolution, c1830–49 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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