... According to Richard J. Evans, "the creation of the German Reich and its rise to economic might and Great Power status had created expectations in many people." Evans points out that with Germany's bitter defeat in the First World War, these "expectations" were only temporarily set-back. After the war, Germans "expected" that Germany would rise once ... in Berlin, and many Poles remained lukewarm toward Polish nationalism. The Jews in Germany, about one percent of the population, can hardly be considered a national minority, as the great majority of them was assimilated. Having received ...

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... unite the German States - under Prussian leadership. In 1862 Bismarck made his famous speech in which he publicly stated that "the great questions of the day [German unity] will not be settled by speeches and majority decisions - that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 - but by blood and iron". This highlighted his determination for expansion and the seizure of power ... Federal Diet to decide the fate of the duchies, a move in breach of the Gastein Convention which had established the current status of the duchies. The war, contrary to international expectations, went the way of Pr...

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