... opportunity to unite Germany following the revolutions of "48, and the subsequent changes in government and constitution, on this occasion the nationalist outcry resulted in the formation of a Federal Diet at Frankfurt. This German Confederation excluded Austria, because of her anti-unity policy, preferring rather a loose "middle-Europe" coalition. Ever since first being appointed Prussian representative to the Federal ... Diet in 1851, Bismarck had urged the Prussian Government to seize power in the German Confederation. He had been instrumental in advising the Prussian Authorities to ...

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... Chancellor and was the biggest obstacle the nationalist movement would have to overcome. He wanted to maintain the Confederation of the German states and stop any liberalization of its Assembly (Diet). The Assembly represented the princes of the states not the people and Metternich wanted this system to remain. Metternich was very aware of the views of university students, many of ... Confederation rulers to crush the students and in 1819 he made the Carlsbad Decrees which abolished student unions and censored newspapers to stop the spread of ideas. In 1820 the Diet's power was increase...

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... demanded freedom for press, a parliament, legal systems and a German republic. Briefly, a parliament of middle class representatives from all over the German states met in Frankfurt, the home of the Confederation Diet, and even got as far as forming a constitution. King Frederick William IV of Prussia and other German nobles were determined not to allow the threat of the lower classes to ... ...

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... who argued that the State "has the supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the State."" Hegel foresaw in the early 1800's that "Germany's hour- would come and that the country's mission would be to redevelop the world. A German hero would complete this mission (Landry). Like Hegel, another German philosopher more directly portrayed the conventionality ... ...

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... a chance to resolve the economic instabilities that have sprouted in Europe and cure any instabilities that Germany might have had in regards to its neighbors. Russo-German Treaty of bjorkoe, 24 July 1905 1. In the event that one of the two empires will be attacked by a European power, its ally will come to its assistance in Europe with all of its ... ...

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