Unification of Germany Chapter 1 Germany 1815-1848 1. The Situation in Germany 1815 2. Reform and Repression 1815-40 3. Economic Development 1815-40 4. Germany 1840-8 1813 – Battle of Leipzig 1814-15 - The Vienna Peace Settlement 1815 – German Confederation established 1817 – Wartburg Festival 1818 – Constitution granted in Baden and Bavaria 1819- Carlsbad Decrees 1832 – Nationalist festival at Hambach‚ The Six Articles 1834 – Zollverein came into operation 1840 – Frederick William
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Imperialism is the policy of a country extending their power and influence onto another nation by diplomacy or military force. Imperialism is also known as colonization and caused much hate‚ conflict‚ and tension in Europe. For example‚ a German propaganda map called England the “bloodsucker of the world” (Doc. E)‚ and “The British Octopus” (Doc. E). This is partly because‚ at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885‚ Great Britain — and their ally France —received more land in Africa than Germany
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The French Republic is currently allied to the Triple Entente. France entered the Great War in 1914 and its association with the Great War was inevitable due to its promised alliance to Russia in case of war with Germany. The casualties faced by the French economy in this process are massive. Having started with a population of about 40 million people‚ France has lost 1.3 million people directly to the war‚ twice as many are wounded and about 400‚000 people have fallen prey to the Spanish Influenza
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the KulturKampf was introduced to destroy the political influence of the Catholic Church in Germany and do similar with other small minorities. As a Lutheran and a Prussian he could not understand how German Catholics could divide their loyalty between their country and their religion. 39% of the German population were catholic‚ mainly in the southern states of the country. These southern states were the most reluctant to unify as a nation as the catholic population did not want to unite with the 61%
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born on April 1‚ 1815 at Schönhausen and considered the founder of the German Empire. From 1862 to 1873 Bismarck was prime minister of Prussia and from 1871 to 1890 he was Germany’s first Chancellor. Once Germany was unified‚ Bismarck noticed that Germany was under threat of attack from other countries surrounding it. Bismarck primarily wanted to avoid any challenges against the new European order and to unite the new German state‚ which faced domestic opposition and great suspicion from the rest
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attitude to France‚ our national sense of honour compelled us‚ in my opinion to go to war; and if we did not act according to the demands of this feeling‚ we should lose... the entire impetus towards our national development won in 1866‚ while the German national feeling south of the Main‚ aroused by our military successes in 1866;… would have to grow cold again… Under this conviction I made use of the royal authorization communicated to me... to publish the contents of the telegram…I reduced the
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a territory that was disputed over by France and Germany. At the time of the story France was defeated by Prussia led by Bismarck. The French districts of Alsace and Lorraine had passed into Prussian hands. An order had come from Berlin that only German was to be taught in the schools of these districts. the author‚ Alphonse Daudet‚ brings out the effect of this order on the people of Alsace through this story. All of a sudden the people realize that their identity is closely tied up with their
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English especialy through the medium of French in the 16th and 17th centuries. e.g.: colonel‚ campaign‚ infantry‚ alarm etc. c) different other words‚ e.g.: lagoon‚ lava‚ volcano‚ corridor‚ influence‚ etc. German borrowings Borrowings from the German language began in Late Middle English‚ representing an almost continuous influx. e.g.: iceberg‚ zigzag‚ waltz‚ quartz‚ wolfram‚ etc Dutch borrowings Dutch words were introduced into English in various periods
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cherished throughout his life‚ Prussia would never have seen the successes of Bismarck‚ Moltke‚ and Roon; she would never have earned the laurels of Sadowa‚ nor those of Sedan. Without the energy displayed by William I. it is most probable that if the old German Empire had ever been reconstituted‚ it would have been to the profit of the Habsburgs‚ and not to that of the Hohenzollerns. Wilhelm’s personal
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the catholic and Protestant princes. Charles V‚ the Holy Roman Emperor was distracted by other affairs‚ notably the wars he was sustaining against the French‚ and was unable to suppress the Lutherans (Coffin & Stacey‚ pg. 372). The princes in the German states saw this as an opportunity to become more independent. “Charles failed because the Catholic princes of Germany feared that if Charles succeeded in defeating the Protestant princes‚ he might suppress their own independence‚” (372). The religious
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