... against the territorial integrity of the [Habsburg] monarchy- (item 5). It was this latter clause that precluded Serbian compliance, for the Serbian government could hardly agree to an ultimatum that would have worked to compromise the dignity of an independent state. With the unsatisfactory though conciliatory Serbian ... aside if war broke out between Russia and Austria, she would be unwilling to do so in the event of the involvement of France and Germany, a clear warning to the latter. Bethmann-Hollweg's unwise counter that a German victory in a wider war, if Britain remained neutra...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... taxes and increased defensive budgets, but 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. He reorganized the army and for ... army. Eventually the conflict calmed down and there were mass political organizations and public participation in government. By early summer, regimes had been overthrown and there was freedom. New parliaments were ...

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... this would be how the people of Germany felt that not only they needed to be the greatest country, but also they deserved to be greatest country. The people of Germany strove to have a "place in the sun- and the German government faced a lot of pressure from its ... citizens to accomplish this goal as well as the pressure that the Austrian government faced to rid the pan Slavism that burdened and ... Russian's strong involvement in the Sarajevo crisis and initiation of World War I. The increasing Russian peasant demands preoccupied the Russian government while populism, Marxism, and B...

• Word Count: 1892
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... by religious, economic and political means. Bismarck was dismissed from office by 1890, and it remains controversial how successful he was in uniting Germany and its people. This matter will be examined in this essay, taking into account Bismarck's contributions to German Unification from 1862 through 1890 ... at talks with Napoleon III at Biarritz in October of 1865. Here Bismarck told Napoleon that he could seek compensation (for Prussian dominance over Germany) "everywhere French is spoken". Since Napoleon desired to expand beyond the "natural frontiers of France" and wanted to remai...

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... the Italian Spirit). Balbo agreed that federal state was the obvious goal, because the various peoples of Italy were so distinct that they needed different forms f government. As a good Piedmontese, he envisaged Charles Albert, not the Pope, as leader of the future Italian confederation. Unlike Giobetti, however, he developed the ... comprising the whole of Italy was contrary to dominating position of France in Europe in the past had depended on the weakness of both Germany and Italy. Once united, the two countries would become strong the dominant position of France in Europe. So Napoleo...

• Word Count: 10644
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate