... war with France, but Garibaldi didn't attack and the people of the southern Italy voted to joining the kingdom of Sardinia under Victor Emmanuel II. As a result Italy Cavour turned popular nationalism in a conservative direction. It expanded to Venice and Rome under Victor Emmanuel II. Italy was neither radical nor fully democratic. The unification of Germany started with the Austro-Prussian ... 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 unmas...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... some of their troops, which took some of the burden off the Italian troops. In Italy at the time of Unification, the states were run each in different ways. The most popular State had a say in the other States but wasn't the leader of them. Piedmont-Sardinia was this state; King Victor Emmanuel ran it. I found that Nationalism played a minor role in ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... 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 Prussia; victory enabled most of the peace treaty clauses to be dictated by Prussia. The German Confederation was reformed under the name of the New German Confederation, including a constitution that excluded Austria. The fact ... this time, having been dissuaded in the case of Austria. Paris was, eventually, captured and on 18 January 1871 King William I of Prussia was crowned German Emperor on a wave of popular p...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... later they were defeated at Sedan. In January 1871 the French accepted the armistice, leaving the way clear for Bismarck to unite Germany, and helped by the pressure a surge of popular patriotism put on them, he forced the southern states to join. It is certain that Bismarck was highly influential in the short-term issue of geographically uniting the German states ... push his beliefs on the people or force their support, although he was able to influence their lives through the laws he made. Bismarck could well have been the single most influential person in Germany through the period,...

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... Napoleon's strategy had demanded on very exceptional staff work. His staff was always very intelligent and extremely confident, because they were under one of the most brilliant military leaders of all time. Other strategies included taking great risks, and trusting that divisions were at a vital point at exactly the right moment ... The first clear, compact statement of the French law. The Napoleonic Code has served as a base for legal systems around the world! Napoleon's most lasting effect on France and much of the world was the set of civil laws that he instituted that still bears hi...

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... Prussia was striving to become "too powerful". This meant Bismarck had to provoke others to attack him. In 1863, Denmark tried to take away the autocracy of the two northern most German states, Schleswig and Holstien. Bismarck announced that this was completely unacceptable to German Confederation. Austria and Prussia together went to war against Denmark. Against the Frankfurt Assembly's wishes, ... he wanted to unify Germany under the Kleindeutsch plan. The key plan was to exclude Austria from the Union. Austria taking a logical step, launched a "pre-emptive strike" against Prussia. Most...

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... and rising inflation. The death of Weimar's leading political figure, Gustav Stresemann, did not help matters. Had the democratic Weimar Republic been strong and popular, it might well have been able to see off the challenge of the Nazis. In 1924 Adolf Hitler said "the state itself has become the ... had not been defeated; it was betrayed - "stabbed in the back- by the democrats who had needlessly agreed to the Versailles Treaty. What most Germans did not realise was that it was Ludendorff who had asked for an armistice while the Kaiser was still in power. However, the enemies ... of the...

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