... . Some inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine spoke French, and many of those who spoke German as a first language considered themselves French rather than German. As a province administered by the Reich government and -- until 1911 -- without representation in the Federal Council, Alsace-Lorraine remained only half integrated. When the area became French again in 1918 the local population drove out the German ... the 18th century, Prussia had acquired some provinces populated mostly by people who spoke Polish and increasingly felt some common bonds with each other and their relatives under ...

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... not only rigorous in his domestic, but also in his foreign policies, he knew, that to unite Germany under Prussia, he had to eliminate Austrian influence. In order to do this he had to secure the alliance or the neutrality of all other continental powers. The first opportunity to do ... come to help, because it was still the head of the German Confederation and a lack of concern in this case would probably cause further Austrian separation from the German states. After the war, Prussia stayed in control of Schleswig and Austria remained in the southern Holstein, which posed the ... b...

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... the parliament rejected it and appointed Otto von Bismarck as Prussian prime minister. When he took office in 1862, he called that the government would rule without parliamentary consent, but he had the Prussian bureaucracy go right on collecting taxes, even though the parliament refused the bill ... conservative leadership, so he put together a federal constitution for the North German Confederation. It stated that each state had its own government but the king was the leader of the confederation. This constitution unmasked popular participation and there was power only in the hands of ....

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... accredited British representatives attended the last two of these meetings. In his Memorandum of 19 January 1805, Pitt the Younger who undoubtedly influenced Castlereagh (his political apprentice) defined the British government's underlying aim for after it had concluded the struggle with Napoleonic France. This aim was to establish "a general agreement and guarantee for the mutual protection and security of the different ... beset with the dangers of Republicanism and Liberalism. Castlereagh did not approve in a religiously led unity, and he distrusted Alexander's motives. He was helpe...

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... during the war. This was mainly because of a severe case of Hyperinflation (where the price increases where so dramatically out of control, that the value of inflation was meaningless). The government at the time predicted and constituted a solution to the problem and it was to simply increase the quantity of production in money printing making. However this then meant that for ... carrying briefcases full of money just to spend for something as small as a loaf of bread. Later on, after discovering that it really wasn't a good idea at all, the German government and her people relied on ...

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... that this could result in extreme international ramifications, which could have resulted in a hostile coalition of powers being formed against Prussia. Bismarck was in a favourable situation because at this time Austrian power was unstable as they had just been defeated by Italy, Austria's relationship with another major power, Russia, was at an all time low after the Crimean war, and also ... the war. The fact that the situation had developed to the point where war had became inevitable was due as much to the clumsy and incautious way that the French government handled the issue as it ...

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