... dominant force in northern Germany, leads the Zollverein and with it, economic and political power over independent states. Reform sweeps across the Prussian military, but perhaps it alone will not be enough to bring the German Kingdoms under one banner. Prussia is blessed with opportunities and strength, troubled ... matters, Prussia could turn to the French, the second empire lacked legitimacy - Napoleon III knew glory would establish his power. The Prussian military proved its discipline and strength during the Austro-Prussian War. What was necessary now was to bring in the south Germ...

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... in the young Italy. So foreign aid was generally unavailable in the first generation of the nineteenth century. Moreover, any war against Austria in the 1820's would mean war against Russia and Prussia too because the Holy Alliance acted as international police force resisting the tide of change. So the political, diplomatic and military condition in 1820's and 1830's did not favour ... the unity of Italy and saved it from foreign interference. These were the bases for the importance of Cavour's role in the Risorgimento. In a nutshell, Napoleon III made Italian unification possible by s...

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... German Unification had already been attempted by the liberal democrats, yet the established National Assembly was ineffective, and eventually crushed by the Prussian military. Otto von Bismarck also longed for a united Germany, however he was delighted this did not happen under the banner of liberalism, ... was to restore the Kings executive power and ensure that he, Bismarck, alone decide over Prussia's military budget. Bismarck was 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. ...

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THE JULY CRISIS After 1907, as we have seen, Russia's foreign policy drifted toward cooperation with Britain, hostility to Germany, as well as to pursuing a strong Slavophile (i.e., pro-Serb) policy in ... neighboring independent Serbia viewed this with much hostility and thus tolerated a violent, anti-Austrian propaganda within her borders. This in turn angered the Austrian military chiefs who often advised preemptive war so as to be finished with Serbia altogether. This mutual hostility was increased after 1908 when Austria formally annexed the ... of support forthcoming from Britain nor d...

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... alliance systems were exploited and manipulated by every country participating in them, in the hope that the alliances would help to solve the foreign and domestic problems that were arising. These ensuing problems that the nations faced placed an unavoidable burden upon the leaders of the nations. ... appear so, the compromise of the dual-monarchy was simply a strong alliance. The countries acted mostly independent of each other except on foreign affairs, when a foreign affairs committee would be summoned. The alliances that existed before the start of World War I operated in a very sim...

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... steps towards the unification of Germany were the formation of the German confederation, the Zollverein and the 1848 revolutions. Bismarck, who became Minister President of Prussia in 1862, introduced a violent foreign policy through a series of wars of unification with neighbouring countries Austria and France to pave the way for unification. The single most important driving force towards a unified Germany was a ... threat of the lower classes to persist, as a successful revolution would spell an end to their powers. These rulers sent troops to dispatch the revolutionaries. The revolu...

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The balance of power is the idea that the national security of a nation is expanded through military conquest and it's distributed so that one state won't be able to dominate all others. That if one nation gains that power to dominate other nations, it will use that ... there was a little bit of nationalism and conservatism. But there were some imperialistic events that changed other nations. Imperialism is the desire to acquire land or extending a nation's power through military force. From 1880 to 1914 many European nations sent massive amounts of money, migrants, and manufactured goods ar...

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... the economic oppression a monarchy might bring. As a result, not only was the French army the largest in Europe, but the most emotionally driven. The Sans-Culottes not only violently suppressed foreign, but internal, undermining of the Republic. On August 10, 1792, a Parisian mob attacked the Tuileries Palace, forcing the king into refuge. During this hunt for Louis XVI, more than 800 ... of counter-revolutionary action were brutally murdered; this now known as the September Massacres. The vicious power the Sans-Culottes displayed through these two harrowing events, in addition to the m...

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