... insensitive to the identity of Alsatians and Lorrains, particularly when they discovered that the German-speakers there were not happy about being reunited with their German relatives from across the Rhine. A non-German minority existed also in the north of Schleswig, the province Prussia had occupied in 1864. The Danish population there formed its own party in the Reichstag but resented ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... states, Bismarck hoped, would voluntarily join. But because of their fear of Prussian control, the states kept their distance. At the same time France was seeking new territory along the Rhine River and in Belgium. Bismarck refused to help France, which Napoleon saw war as the only alternative. Tension between France and Prussia rose and came to a peak when Spain's candidate ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Prussia's power. They misunderstood Prussia's neutrality, and decision to stay out of conflicts to be a sign of weakness. "Prussia is always leaning on somebody Prussia unaided could not keep the Rhine or the Vistula for a month from her ambitious neighbors." Rothfels, p. 48 and 49. To make the rest of the world to be on their toes, and to state Prussia's new ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School