... and non-German areas, made conflicts with foreign countries and with national minorities inevitable' in places like Posen, which had a large polish ethnic population. The German and Italian national movement had a similar problem in the revolutions of 1848, which revolved around controlling the provinces of Schleswig-Holstein and Lombardy-Venetia respectively. The former province was composed mainly of German's, but ... Habsburg's failed to do so. The lack of firm leadership of the Italian national movement during the war, is another factor which must not be ignored as the different Ita...

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... did not share his vision of a Germany dominated by the Prussian emperor and himself, and that the people might have loyalties to leaders (like the pope or the Habsburgs) other than the state or Biz himself. Incredibly, the National Liberals supported these illiberal measures! Biz ... continuation of bad relations with the Centre, Biz decided "he would win over the Social Democrats-not certainly by appealing to their leaders, whom he was persecuting and sending to prison, but by a constructive social programme, which he hoped would detach the working-class voters ... the existing politica...

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... of encirclement in world history. Historians consider Tannenberg a spectacular and complete German victory of World War One. It was here, Tannenberg, where the Germans had demonstrated skilled planning, swift movement, and considerable daring to lure the Russian Second Army into encirclement and annihilate them. The Germans had ended Russia's invasion of East Prussia before it had begun. Beginning on August ... Hoffmann. The three were aware that they were outnumbered 485,000 Germans to 173,000 Russians. They quickly agreed that their only chance lay in a bold gamble. The German leaders...

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