... caused and lives it had wasted. Resulting from Germany's loss of the war there were many political, economic, and social consequences the government and citizens had to deal with. The Treaty of Versailles included provisions that affect Germany both economically politically. Germany was forced to accept a War Guilt clause. This ... the war, which they had no choice but to do, simply fortified the world's opinion. The Treaty of Versailles also demanded that Germany pay damage and reparations in the amount of 35 billion dollars US with interest. This doomed the future of the German econom...

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... would make it to the German states. As nationalism and the economy grew, and the middle class wanting more say in the government, a unified Germany was inevitable to say the least. Prussia realized the potential of a unified Germany lead 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 ... in the Prussian government. But with this, he was able to take the...

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... nationalism of the different nationalities in Austria-Hungary, which lead to threats to the stability of the Austrian Empire. This situation made the government especially alert to confront and extinguish any direct or indirect threat to its power. But this also lead the Austrians to look forward for ... a humiliation was to happen again, a war was to inevitably break out. The "blank cheque"- Germany's support to Austria After the assassination of the archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the Austrian government saw their great opportunity to take over the kingdom of Serbia, which was b...

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... elected into the Vereinigter Landtag which started Bismarck's political career. A year later, Bismarck believed the Prussian king and the articratic landowners a God-given system of government. Bismarck also believed that the system of government should be preserved. Bismarck shunned liberal, socialist, and democratic tendencies as "subversive of civic duty and discipline." (Kimmich 14) In 1851, Bismarck was appointed ... men were given great rewards joining the military. Bismarck had an extreme dislike for the Roman Catholic Church. Bismarck considered Roman Catholics along with liberals...

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... have more power. This indicates that there was also a certain level of democracy within the 2nd Reich too. The Reichstag did not however, have a parliamentary government, meaning that it had a semi-absolutist regime, which was a modern form of a conservative state. As well as a Reichstag, there was also a Reichstrat ... failed and the SPD continued to grow which in turn reinforced conservative tendencies within the middle class. This is a good example of autocracy within Germany. At the first hint of a reform the conservative elite immediately try to restrain socialist rebels and maintain...

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... that Bismarck had annexed several of the German States and kicked Austria out of German affairs, there was only one step left in the unification of Germany under Prussia, getting the southern states to join the North German Confederation. Bismarck decided that the best way to do it would be to unite ... as a common enemy, just as Bismarck had intended and they quickly joined with the North German Confederation in fighting against the French. On August 4, Germany invaded, crossing the border into Alsace. The French were thrown back at Wissemburg, which cut the French army in half, one at...

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... together to form states. In this paper I will show the unification of one of these land areas (German confederate states) into a united Germany under the policies of Otto Von Bismarck ("Blood and Iron"). Bismarck was first involved in politics in the mid to late 1840's. He was on ... would begin moving up the chains of command and influence. In 1861, William I became King of Prussia. He wanted Prussia to have a strong government and army and appointed Bismarck as his Prime Minister. One of Bismarck's main focuses was on his Prussian military. Prussian industry was developing rapidly at ...

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... was coming. The German ruling group felt that Germany could become a world great power only through a war. Military preparations had strengthened this kind of belief. The powers became militaristic. The increase in military control of the civilian government also increased cooperation among the military staff of the ... countries of the same camp. For example, all the three Entente powers held secret military talks. Germany and Austria also had military agreements. When the First World ... the throne an open Serbian attack. Austria would be left without an heir. Although she could not ...

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... bottom of the German states, regarded herself as the leader of the southern states and would oppose her exclusion from a new Germany. France always considered a disunited Germany as an important ingredient to her own security and had no intention of having a powerful neighbour. Both powers would oppose the ... a conflict with Austria, Bismarck announced "I shall declare war on Austria, dissolve the German Confederation, subjugate the middle and smaller states, and give Germany national unity under the control of Prussia" (Friedrich, 1987, p105). As a result was left in control of the nor...

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... Joining World War 1). Russia was at first drug into the war because of their alliances. Russia was defending Serbia at the time from Germany while helping France because of their alliance. Russia declared war with Turkey in November of 1914 and again with Bulgaria in October of 1915 ... behind his decision (Firstworldwar.com). Once in the war, they needed to come up with some strategic plans for battle. Plan G assumed that Germany would launch the war with a full-scale attack against Russia; the opposite of what actually transpired. Russia's game plan was based off of their ... origina...

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... War One. Wether all the nations agreed on this or not, without the War Guilt Clause, there could be future legal difficulties with the reparations. Germany didn't want war, but along with all the other nations, was forced into one. If anything, Russia was the key instigator, because they had ... the collapse of their economy, this was blamed on the cost of reparations ( McTadden, et al 62). Along with an enormous cost for reparations, Germany's demiliterisation was flat out embarassing. Their army was cut down to 100, 000 soldiers, hardly enough to even defend its own country. Its navy w...

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... that Hitler made himself dictator by means of his political genius. And yet still others claim that it was the weak democratic government of the Weimar Republic or Germany's social and economic scene in the 1930's that made the people restless and ready for a dictator to come to power. ... secure State. Heinrich von Treitschke espoused that it was of no consequence what you thought about anything, just as long as you obeyed German law. Germany's tradition also produced Friedrich Nietzsche who preached the coming of a master race and the superman who would conquer, impose a glorified stat...

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... they thought he made a bad decision by not siding with Herman Von Francois about attacking the Russians. In 1917 Russia got knocked out of war along with Germany. Once Germany was out of they war, they sent help to France. On the other side of Europe, France and Britain were in stalemate. This meant that they ... or 22 for that matter) 1919, all the countries signed a treaty called The Treaty of Versailles (they were all in Versailles, France). After this treaty was signed, Germany was forced to sign a War Guilt Clause saying they caused the war. If they didn't sign the War Guilt, the Fr...

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... 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 ... military reforms. Besides, external affairs and diplomatic skills were important to achieve their goal. In fact, though 1848 revolutions failed, the way for the future national unification of Italy a...

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... on, small riots erupted all over Europe. Finally in February 1848, students and middle class liberals demonstrated in the Paris after the government banned one of many banquets hold by supporters of democratic reform. This directly led to the formation of the second republic after King ... to the whole Europe. The success of February Revolution certainly encouraged other countries. Soon after, revolutions broke out all over Spain, Italy, Germany, the Austrian Empire and many other places. The French Revolution has spread out the idea of liberalism. The 1848 Revolutions were based on .....

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... rebels. This is called the polish question which was when the polish people began revolting against the Russian rule. Britain, France and the Prussian government supported the Polish people because they were in favour of liberalism. Yet Bismarck told the Russian King that he supported him because Bismarck was for ... completion of the Schleswig-Holstein war to incite a war with Austria that became known as the Seven weeks of war. Bismarck sought after a unified Germany without Austria. So a war was proposed to eliminate Austria as a competitor in German affairs. The Prussian army, led by...

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... who decided whether or not to take this gamble, the possibility of winning made this risk was attractive. The Seven Years" War was about the control and supremacy of territory: Germany, North America, and India. The war was fought to decide the superiority of power in Europe. The underlying reason was as to which country would dominate in the colonial field ... leaders that the colonies needed a major reorganization and that the central authority should be in London. The English leaders set in motion plans to give London more control over the government of the colonies and these plans w...

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Karl Heinrich Marx Karl Marx was the founder of marxism. He wrote many books and pamphlets on Marxism and the government. Marxism consists of three inter -related ideas: a philosophical view of man, a theory of history, and an economic and political program. Karl Marx was born on may 5, 1818, in the city ... of Trier in the Rhine province of Prussia, now in West Germany. He was born into a rich family. That is kind of ironic because he fights against capitalism. He was the oldest surviving boy of nine. His father Heinrich was a successful lawyer ... ...

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