The main leaders of the Italian Unification Movement are Giusseppe Mazzini, Giusseppe Garibaldi, and Camilo Cavour.
<span> He modernized the country, importing western technology and ideas. He also turned it into European power, by defeating Sweden( a local superpower of that day) in the Great Northern War. Finally, he established royal authority over the church.
Other, minor reforms, included having the nobility shave their beards.Finally, and perhaps most famously,he built the city of Saint Petersburg, later Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg again.
On the negative side, he was a paranoid tyrant who solidified Czarist absolutism, but as Lenin later said, to make an omelette, one has to break a few eggs. </span>
The answer is two and a half years.
The United States watched World War I from afar for two and a half years before entering and declaring a war against Germany on April 6, 1917. Before entering the war, United States was intent on keeping a neutral relationship between countries that are involved in the war.
