... to keep the liberals at bay through foreign policy successes and by introducing a degree of the domestic measures they supported. Of course, having parliament behind him gave Biz the extra weight he needed so that he could pursue his foreign policy objectives with as little interference from Wilhelm I as possible. "Maybe the king had imposed Bismarck on parliament; but the ... feared that the disintegration of Austria-Hungary would bring its Slavic population into the Russian orbit. On the other hand, including its Germans in the Second Empire would increase the weight of the Catholic po...

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... funds. However, upon losing the war, Germany could not pay back the loans or the reparations. As well, as this, the Treaty Of Versailles inflicted another financial burden by the loss of German territories. These included the important industrial areas of the Saar coal fields and Alsace-Lorraine. This meant that it would be much more difficult to regain funds to ... though there was a recovery period. The huge problems faced by Germany simply did not allow for democracy to be instated and continue to function. Particularly, the economic problems caused a general loss of confidence in We...

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... were created? This was a serious problem the nationalist movements had, because there were a lot of monarchs of the independent states, who would clearly not welcome unification, if it resulted in a loss of power for them. As Sperber reveals, many German Liberal nationalists placed their hopes in the Kingdom of Prussia' because it was the most affluent German state, yet this in ... , the Austrian Empire was totally against the unification of Germany and Italy, because in the case of the latter it would have to give up territories which would result in a loss of revenue for her, more so s...

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... of a specific foreign policy of Bismarck's was to have good relations with Russia and Austria. Russia could have been allied with France, which had become heavily weakened due to its loss in the recent war. Bismarck feared France gaining an ally and rising to power, realizing that he needed to be on good terms with Russia and Austria in order to ... ...

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... of a specific foreign policy of Bismarck's was to have good relations with Russia and Austria. Russia could have been allied with France, which had become heavily weakened due to its loss in the recent war. Bismarck feared France's gaining an ally and rising to power, realizing that he needed to be on good terms with Russia and Austria in order to ... ...

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... limitations to the size of her navy meant that Germany had less protection and this made Germany even more prone and vulnerable to foreign attack and because of its major loss of land, Germany also felt like it had been weakened and split apart altogether. The country also felt that the treaty was a dictate and were upset not to be invited ... ...

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... years leading up to the revolutions were years of dismay. Crops failed in the German states and other parts of Europe. A terrible cholera epidemic broke out in 1848, "causing such loss of life that for a while life in many areas was totally disorganised". "Thus the time was ripe for a radical change to upset the old order of things". Demonstrations and public ... ...

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