... took down barriers between German states. These states were able to unify but under Prussian rule. Otto Von Bismark the Chancellor made it happen. Bismark was also a Realpolitik master and led Prussia into three wars that all strengthened Germany's unity. Bismark decided to break the German Confederation and went to war with Austria. "Austria's conflict and rivalry with us was ... was to reform Sardinia's economy. In the Crimean war Sardinia, Britain and France fought against Russia. They were not victorious however through this war Sardinia got attention from Napoleon, which led to a s...

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... Prussia ran all over Austria and this played an important influence on the failure of Germany failing to unite before 1860. Austria had passed the Carlsberg decrees and crushed Prussian led Evert Union at Olmutz, which incidentally brought down nationalism and severely dampened it, which brought besmirch upon nationalism through out. The Bund was surprisingly weaker than what the eyes of ... hostile to liberalism and nationalism, she was totally hostile to German unification. Austria undoubtedly shun a light on the ultimate strength of her might, her hostility as she crushed the Prussia...

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... for the Austro-Prussian war in 1866 that resulted in the defeat of Austria. In agreement, Prussia assumed territorial control over Schleswig and Holstein and other German states. Consequently, this led to the unification of the northern states, leaving Austria out of Prussian affairs and leaving Prussia as the premier power of Germany. In achieving this success, Bismarck disregarded parliamentary powers ... tool in completing the unification. "Using the vacant Spanish throne, Bismarck forged a telegram, insinuating that Napoleon and King William had insulted each other." (Perry, 404) Th...

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The steps that led to German unification include the era when Austria was defeated, the Schleswig-Holstein issue, and the seven week war and finally when unity was achieved. Bismarck turned his attention into ... became known as the Seven weeks of war. Bismarck sought after a unified Germany without Austria. So a war was proposed to eliminate Austria as a competitor in German affairs. The Prussian army, led by the renowned Helmuth von Moltke trampled the Austrians at the Battle of Sadowa and they admitted defeat. Bismarck relinquished tolerant peace terms for the Austrians. The Treaty of Pra...

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... in causing the WW1. The second one was the Nationalism. There were two kinds of nationalism in 19th Century Europe. One was the desire of subject peoples for independence. It led to a series of national struggles for independence among the Balkan peoples. Other powers got involved and caused much instability. The other one was the desire of independent nations for governance ... denoted a rise in military expenditure, an increase in military and naval forces and a preference for force as a solution to problems. After 1871, the war atmosphere engendered by the secret alliances led to an ...

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... the question posed. Before the Napoleonic era, Europe was a continent stuck in a bygone age of traditional views regarding Technology, Economy, Society and Politics. The subsequent fall of Napoleon in 1815 led to vast changes in the internal infrastructure of Europe and a growing intensification of the political and diplomatic relationships within the victorious alliance of nations who had defeated Napoleon. The decisions ... a continuous administrative control from centralised institutions and bureaucracies. In both Great Britain and France, states that had accepted Liberalism, written...

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... the question posed. Before the Napoleonic era, Europe was a continent stuck in a bygone age of traditional views regarding Technology, Economy, Society and Politics. The subsequent fall of Napoleon in 1815 led to vast changes in the internal infrastructure of Europe and a growing intensification of the political and diplomatic relationships within the victorious alliance of nations who had defeated Napoleon. The decisions ... a continuous administrative control from centralised institutions and bureaucracies. In both Great Britain and France, states that had accepted Liberalism, written...

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... Communists showed no hesitancy in wising to overthrow the republic. Weimar Republic's failure was sealed by the constitution itself. Since no one party could take control with ease, proportional representation led to a lard number of small parties with little political influence. It was this lack of strength and inability to unite the parties that ... led to extremist movements of the right and left wing. Ultimately, it was the entire political system, which led to the republic downfall itself. All in all, the Republic did prove strong with its foreign policy, but even though such ... ...

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... keep France isolated in Europe so that the country couldn't attempt to take Alsace and Lorraine back from Germany. Metternich created the German Confederation that led to the North German Alliance founded by Bismarck. This eventually led to the start of the unification of Germany when the North German Alliance convinced south Germany to come together. Both men achieved different results through ... ...

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... keep France isolated in Europe so that the country couldn't attempt to take back Alsace and Lorraine from Germany. Metternich created the German Confederation that led to the North German Alliance founded by Bismarck. This eventually led to the start of the unification of Germany when the North German Alliance convinced south Germany to come together. Both men achieved different results through ... ...

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... principle battles. The first battle was the battle of Custozza and took place on June 24, 1866. This battle was fought on Italian soil and was led by Bismarck's ally Victor Emmauel II. The Austrians were led by field marshel Josef Radetzky. The battle of Custozza ended with the defeat of Italy Bismarck's ally. The second battle was called the battle of ... ...

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... Saxony and the war was in full scale. Through the Treaty of Hubertusburg, Frederick maintained his possession of Silesia and confirmed Prussia's stature as a major European power. Prussias' early triumph led them through the following years with confidence. They fought hard and won many battles in the years following the Saxony invasion, most notably over France and Austria. Frederick conducted brilliant ... in motion plans to give London more control over the government of the colonies and these plans were eventually a big part of the colonial resentment towards British imperial polici...

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... reparation figure totalling 132 000 million gold marks ($US 32 Billion). The crippled Germany economy was lacking the capacity to meet reparation costs and the Reparations Commission set up a committee, led by the American Banker Charles G. Dawes, to investigate ways of assisting the German economy. Wright (2002), states, "As foreign minister/ he [Stresemann] accepted the recommendations of the Dawes Committee ... ...

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... most of her Army. With this huge outburst of power, the French ceased the moment and forced the workers to work for them and took all their raw materials. This led to the workers going on strike and what used to be Germany's central nerve for its Industrial survival, came to a standstill. This made the French just bring French men into ... ...

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... concerned the economy. Tariffs increased the price of the goods while reducing the amount sold. Prussia and many German states made up a number of treaties called the Zollverein. The Zollverein led to the spread of industrialism. Germany's economy became dependent on The Zollverein. Otto Von Bismarck ruled Prussia over William I. He reorganized the Prussian army, and increased taxes. If Prussian parliament ... ...

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... and other minerals. These were to help to make Germany's industries even more powerful. Germany's victory had a great impact on the south German states and they agreed to a German union led by Prussia. Germany was now the most powerful military in Europe. In the last thirty years of the nineteenth century, there were great economic and social changes to the new ... ...

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... Europe. Finally in February 1848, students and middle class liberals demonstrated in the Paris after the government banned one of many banquets hold by supporters of democratic reform. This directly led to the formation of the second republic after King Louis Philippe fled to England. The French revolution began. This was the starting point of the 1848 Revolutions, because at that ... ...

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... storage. Making the things worse, the rulers reclaimed taxes from people to finance their wars. As a result many revolutions and opposition movements have raised to change the situation. All this led some monarchs to adopt absolutism as a new way of ruling where they could have supreme and absolute power to control their subjects and put down any opposition. Opposed to absolutism ... ...

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... Prussia at 1870. The French Army had been defeated by the cunning Bismark and the full unification of Germany had occurred. Bismark's mentality that "any deed was justified, if it led to greater power for Germany" (The Modern World Since 1870, 1981:pg8) had greatly influenced European leaders and caused this new type of Imperialism to spread across the continent. Powered ... ...

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... quarrelsomeness. Should the French attack us however, we shall of course resist" (Whitfield, 2000, p173). This comment made by Bismarck reveals the unstable relationship between France and Prussia, which eventually led to war. All Germans stood along side Prussia and France was beaten after a great defeat in Sedan. In less than six months, Paris was occupied by German troops. This war ... ...

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... liberals to support the authoritarian notion. This was very important as it weakened potential support for full democracy. Bismarck's success, however, did not go the way he planned. It eventually led to economically increased support for the SPD (Socialist Party) by the proletariat (industrial and urban working class) who wanted not only for Germany's economy to grow, but they wanted a political ... ...

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... the Axis Powers. Truly, the German Unification Wars' lasting legacy is World War I and II These three wars, the Danish War, the Austro-Prussian War, and the Franco-Prussian War led to the unification of Germany. All the city states had become one under the German Empire, their governments remained their own, but their armies became that of the Empire. Otto ... ...

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... concerned the economy. Tariffs increased the price of the goods while reducing the amount sold. Prussia and many German states made up a number of treaties called the Zollverein. The Zollverein led to the spread of industrialism. Germany's economy became dependent on The Zollverein. Otto Von Bismarck ruled Prussia over William I. He reorganized the Prussian army, and increased taxes. If Prussian parliament ... ...

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... . The fact that the people could come together as a result of their cultural similarities, and their pride in keeping alive their great histories, or even creating new memories together. All led by great leaders, the people found the unity needed to overthrow their previous monarchs and leaders. ...

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... when nothing happened." How far do you agree with Bismarck's opinion of the period 1815-48? I disagree with Bismarck's opinion totally as many things took place during this time which led to the spread to Nationalism and then on to a united Germany. Many things happened between 1815 to 1848, Cultural Nationalism for instance occurred in the Educated German society who had ... ...

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