... the National Assembly whose goal was to unify Germany as a liberal, constitutional state. In May 1848, the National Assembly was called to prepare for this "unification". After disagreements between Prussia and Austria, Prussia tried to unify Germany under their kliendeutsch plan. In 1848, the Assembly finished the constitution, appointed King Frederick William as the first emperor of Constitutional ... rapidly advanced with new factories, textile and iron production, rail roads, coal production and record exports. This made the population grow quickly and the middle-class expand. With Z...

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... war with the Austrians a success by having the Russians, the big threat, stay out of the war. He had done this before the war with Austria because he wanted and knew that there would be a war coming ahead. In 1863 disturbances had upraised in Poland, Russia. The powers of Europe sympathized ... he took this dispute to drag Austria on the field. When finally Austria was on the field he won, thus making the Austrians even weaker than before and making Prussia's position stronger. Later when the war broke out, declared by the Austrians, the main issue was for the future of the Duchies. ......

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... in 1815. The Congress divided territory among the victors of the Napoleonic Wars, and a number of European nations. Before 1848, a desire for the unity of Italy was limited to a small section of the aristocracy and the middle class. Camillo Cavour and Garibaldi had much to do with unifying all of the people and land in Italy. Cavour's policy was to secure for the Kingdom of ... L"Overture it became easier to fight for what they wanted. They took full advantage of their cultural similarities and defeated the French army after they found the island was not worth fighting for, even though ...

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... Holy Roman Empire. Although losing eastern territory to Russia, Prussia was doubled in size after land in the Rhineland and Westphalia was granted to her, making her the dominant power in northern Germany. Monarchies and principalities were in still in operation using their own courts and applying their own oaths of allegiance. However there were problems with newly established monarchs ... where loyalties had to be constructed through manufacturing of an image ( Frederich William III ). The states organised themselves, especially Prussia, more authoritatively than before in areas such a...

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... , he received several minor positions until finally, he was elected to the Prussian Landtag in 1847. Later he became the ambassador to Russia and then France, before finally becoming Premier of Prussia. In a perfect example of how Bismarck was unafraid to do what ever it took to get the job ... Franco-Prussian was much larger than either of the previous wars. For the French, Napoleon III took direct control over the army before Marshal Bazaine took over for him, and for the Germans, Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, who was a military genius lead the army. Because France had declared wa...

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First is the introduction of Imperialism. Major European powers became industrialized and imperialistic. The powers always competed to control overseas market and for colonies. Therefore, conflict and suspicion between the powers developed. Undoubtedly economic rivalries played a considerable part in creating international tensions before the WW1. However, the economic rivalries have been much overstated. Thus, the economic rivalries only played a minor part ... one another, local war might develop into a world war easily. The last one was Militarism. Militarism denoted a rise in military exp...

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The Weimar Republic was a chaotic and difficult transition for the German State after the Great War. To some historians, the Republic and Weimar Germany was destined to collapse from the beginning. Many years of traditional ... autocratic rule by strong nationalistic leaders made the acceptance of democracy difficult. The exhilarating days of 1918 saw it widely embraced, but its implementation would prove to be another matter. Despite its sweeping mandate in 1919, the SPD cabinet and ... side, distancing himself from the memories of hyperinflation and mass unemployment as far as possible. Li...

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... directly led to the formation of the second republic after King Louis Philippe fled to England. The French revolution began. This was the starting point of the 1848 Revolutions, because at that time, France was the most important country in Europe. Before the 1840s, France was in its eGolden Age ... ; the other European countries had always followed French ideas, even after the 1848 Revolutions until the year 1870. Paris, as the French capital, of cause had ... the revolutions. For example in Germany, among the 830 representatives of the new national parliament, only one peasant and fou...

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... but halting at the border of Denmark proper, in accordance with Britain's demand. This move by Bismarck succeeded in maintaining international opinion, and, following the refusal of the Danish King to compromise over the status of Schleswig, thus freeing Prussia from the London Treaty, allowed Bismarck ... to manipulate the situation to Prussia's advantage. Consequently after the war flared up again in the summer of 1864, the result being that the two duchies were placed under Austro-Prussian control and Bismarck had succeeded in committing Austria to a corner of Germany far ... placed...

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... separate German states which were set up by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 after the defeat of Napoleon. This loose association of independent states was called The German Confederation of the Bund. Before the war with Napoleon there had been 300 individual states, When Napoleon invaded these ... second to Austria in terms of its political power in the Confederation. Metternich the Austrian Chancellor controlled the Congress; he was a reactionary conservative and would prove to be a huge obstacle in achieving unification. He halted the progress of political nationalism but was unable to ...

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... For the most part nationalism has brought more positive than negative change. Nationalism shows itself abundantly in the unification of Germany and Italy as well as Nazi Germany. In the unification of Germany there was a positive example of Nationalism. Nationalism was why Germany was ... eventually unified as one state. Before unification Germany was broken into many states. At the time Napoleon was a French emperor and took over Germany in attempt to unify them. The invasions that Napoleon inspired Germans and they began to demand a unified German state. As a result ... with Austria th...

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... by their own government. Austria on the other hand, was not ready to give up their influences on the German states. With the Revolution over, Europe and Germany went back to the way they were before. It seemed as if nothing would ever change with the way the German Confederation would be run. With the German unification in a stand still, Otto Von ... Bismarck's chancellorship, he served as the Prussian representative in the Frankfurt Diet of the German Confederation. As his popularity grew through the Prussian government, he became ambassador to Russia, and shortly after he became the a...

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... unrest. A further effect of the revolution attempts was the publicity gained by extremists. Hitler in particular was unknown before the Munich Putsch but that, and the subsequent trial gave the NSDP national news coverage, a huge propaganda advantage. The fact that the army would ... showing the political weakness of Weimar. As the republic had ultimately been created by the military, they retained their influential positions and therefore made their right wing views heard. These right wing sympathies of the conservative elite seriously undermined the socialist views of ... and reparation...

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... that German unification was a turning point in European history due to the fact that Germany was reliant on their leader Bismarck. Before unification Germany was divided into thirty-nine individual states, which was brought together in a process that began in 1849 and ended in 1871.The principal architect of unification was a German statesman, Otto Von Bismarck. Bismarck's main aim was to unite ... the German confederation as a reward for his efforts. Bismarck served in Frankfurt until 1859 where he was posted as ambassador to St.Petersburg before being appointed as Prussian prime-minis...

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... or indirect threat to its power. But this also lead the Austrians to look forward for a short, easy war that would unite them, by facing a common enemy and that would give strength to the Empire after having won it. There was also the issue of nationalism of the great powers. For example, in Germany there were organizations like the Pan-German League ... "- Ignorance of the war conditions When the war was declared, most of the countries had a great number of young men who volunteered to become soldiers and protect their motherland. 15 million people died in the war, and after the first m...

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... was a turning point for Europe. The year 1848 ended the autocratic rule and turned into a new page of Europe. A.J.P. Taylor describes 1848 as 'opening of an era'. Politically speaking, the map of Europe appeared much the same as it had been after the Congress of Vienna before 1848. Most of the states were under the regime of political repression, autocratic ... government and aristocratic privilege with the exception of France, Belgium and Britain only.Austria, under Metternich System was one of the repression and reaction country against revolution principles.She was dominated in Germa...

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... could never fend for herself in society. The fact of her situation is that she had become utterly dependent on Innstetten for both material and emotional support. After Innstetten returned from Varzin, Effi stated, "Now everything will be all right. You mustn't go away, you must never leave me alone another time!" . Reflecting the "class conscious[ness]" of ... time with Crampas. Innstetten incorporates the bureaucratic values of duty, work, and advancement within a militaristic hierarchy . Effi accepts his conditions, for the most part, because she knows castles cost something. Before...

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... German life. 'The single dominating impulse throughout his career,' writes W. N. Medlicolt, 'was the exercise of power.' Before 1878 he insisted on signing every document in person. All-contact between other ministers and the Kaiser was strictly prohibited. If ministers of independent mind, they were dismissed, and this, combined with his overwhelming influence over William I, gave Bismarck an unprecedented position of authority in Germany ... on economic measures up to 1879: for example, free trade and the founding of a central bank. The government and the liberal majority also worked ...

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... extra territory for France and Bismarck used these demands to pressurise the south German states into signing secret military alliances with the north German confederation. These alliances effectively started military integration with the north before political unification was achieved, but it did bring about some sort of unification. The alliances said that the smaller southern states would come to the aid of ... Prussia if she was attacked and this agreement was advantageous to both sides. It gave Prussia a hold over another piece ... primary aims, because it had been achieved throug...

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... in East Prussia. He was called from Liege to attend to conditions in the East against a Russian threat of invasion. General von Moltke wrote a letter to Ludendorff stating, "You have before you a new and difficult task I know no other man in whom I have such absolute trust. The Kaiser to has absolute confidence in you." Ludendorff was greatly honored ... his two flanks almost in shambles, Samsonov tried to advise an attack against the Germans using his center, but it quickly ground to a halt. The Russian 15th Corps broke after fierce fighting and by the evening of August 28, the Russian...

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... had the Prussian bureaucracy go right on collecting taxes, even though the parliament refused the bill. He reorganized the army and for 4 years he sent large liberal majorities to the parliament. He sought that Germany had to control the north, so after the victory over Denmark he was able to force Austria out by war. In a way that there would no alliances ... term "new imperialism" to be used which was the drive by European countries to create political empires abroad. One example is with Great Britain and Africa. Before 1880 Britain only controlled 10% of Africa and it wasn't enough t...

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... had to set about consolidating his gains after pulling together the formerly disunited Germanic kingdoms. The aim of "nation building" is certainly a massive undertaking. With this goal in mind, during his "liberal" phase and "under Biz's direction, Germany was given all the qualities of a great modern state. The civil and criminal codes were ready before the making of the empire; a unified ... , "personally Biz enjoyed more absolute power than ever before as Wilhelm I became a figurehead." But the domestic tranquility Biz bought with his foreign policy success did not last long. He still...

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... itself has become the biggest swindler- As it was, the fledging Republic started off badly, found some stability in the period 1924-1929 and then collapsed after the Wall Street Crash. The end of World War 1 brought a major change in the government of Germany. The war had been ... democratic parliamentary system, because before 1919 the Reichstag had not actually controlled policy, the Chancellor was responsible to the Reichstag but it usually failed to give a clear lead because the parties refused to compromise. The Communists and Nationals did not believe in the Republic anyway and refu...

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