List of historical effects of nationalism

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Main Article: Nationalism

Historical events in which nationalism played an essential role included:

• The first and second World war between 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.
• The French Revolution between 1789 and 1799.
• The Greek Revolution between 1821-1829
• The American war of Independence 1775-1783
• The Rebellions of 1837 in Upper and Lower Canada.
• The 1848 Revolutions in Europe.
• The Italian unification under the rule of Piedmont-Sardinia.
• The Grito de Lares in Puerto Rico
• the flight of the Boers during the Great Trek away from British rule
• The Arab-Israeli conflict, beginning in the early 20th century and ongoing
• The Anglo-Irish War, leading to the renewed independence of Ireland as the Republic of Ireland, also the partition of Ireland into the sovereign Republic of Ireland and the British statelet of Northern Ireland.
• The 1911 Revolution in China.
• The Balkan Wars in 1912-1913.
• The Arab Revolt of 1916-1918.
• The Turkish War of Independence from 1919 to 1923
• The Maltese revolt against the British in what was known as the Sette Giugno
• The rise of Reza Shah in 1921.
• The Indian independence movement of the 20th Century and the rise of Mahatma Gandhi.
• The unification of Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the Confederation of Canada in 1867
• The construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) between 1881 and 1885 that united eastern and western Canada
• The Ponce massacre in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1937.
• The establishment of the apartheid state in South Africa by the National Party of South Africa, the Afrikaner nationalists.
• The unification of Syria and Egypt under the United Arab Republic and its demise.
• The Indonesian Nationalism Movement 1905-1949.
• The establishment of the People's Republic of China.
• Nationalism and resistance in Algeria as a prelude to .
• The decolonisation of Africa during the 1960s and 1970s.
• The anti-colonial opposition to white rule in Zimbabwe, formerly during the 1960s and 1970s.
• Black Nationalist opposition towards colonial and White Nationalist rule all across Africa. In the independent nations of Rhodesia and , the French colony of Algeria, , the Belgian colonies of the Belgian Congo, Rwanda and Burundi; and , Rhodesia, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Egypt during their time as British colonies.
• The conflict between Canadian and nationalism in Canada, and the violence of the FLQ.
• The Fiji coups of 1987 and 2000.
• The rise in white nationalism or anti-immigrant violence in western countries since the 1970s.
• The break up of the Communist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Soviet union into 15 independent nations:
• The conflict between Palestinian militant groups, the Palestinian Authority and Israel; as well as the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
• More than 60 years of violence and strife between Irish Catholics supportive of the Irish Republican cause of leaving the United Kingdom and joining the Republic of Ireland and Irish Protestants of British heritage supportive of the Ulster Loyalist cause of staying with the United Kingdom.
• The survival and strength of once endangeared small languages such as Quebecois French, Acadian French, the Irish language, Scots language, Scots Gaelic, Welsh language, Basque language, Afrikaans, Hawaiian, Inuktitut, Zulu, Breton, and many others.