On 23 September 1862‚ Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was appointed Minister-President and Foreign Minister of Prussia . Within nine years a new German nation state was created by the unification of the numerous independent German-speaking states in central Europe. The creation of Germany as a cohesive political and integrated country occurred on 18 January 1871 at the palace of Versailles in France. Following the military defeat of France by Prussia in the Franco/Prussian war‚ (July 1870 to January
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Unification of Italy Development of Nation-States and Nationalis Introduction ly in 1861. These events can be broken down in five stages: Pre-Revolutionary‚ Revolution Pre-Revolutionary and divide up the territory conquered up by Napoleon. In its negotiations‚ the congress ret Giuseppe Mazzini with a republican form of government. Mazzini brought the campaign for unification into the mainstre Revolutionary anded more rights from their respective government‚ the
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Nichelle Heard LS 238 A Dr. Michael Aradas 17 December 2012 The Unification of China When I first read the entire Sima Qian document‚ I immediately thought that I was entering top secret files or records or something like a diary from Qian himself. Then I realized that this was his job‚ to document the activities of the Emperor‚ and I got a little less excited about the drama within the reading but focused on the material. The unification of China had its good and bad results. I personally think that
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Unification of Spain: the Good‚ the Bad‚ and the Really Ugly | Alexis Wilson | The Europeans wanted to expand their minds and their wealth with what the “unknown” world had to “offer”. When I say offer‚ I mean what they could take and run with without consequence. The Europeans wanted to “expose” and “enlighten” the new world people with their religion. When I say “expose” and “enlighten”‚ I mean force the new world people to convert to Christianity or they would be slowly tortured
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Question: Analyze the factors that prevented the development of a unified Germany state in the sixteenth seventeenth centuries. What were the three most important reasons that Germany did not become a state along the lines of France or Spain? Answer To Above Question The Holy Roman Empire (HRE) was the most powerful Kingdom during the middle Ages‚ but during the broken reign of the HRE‚ no strong centralized form of government existed. The kingdom was torn apart religiously and then the 30 Years’
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Italian unification l Background l After Napoleon‚ the Italian states were controlled by France. l Effect: l 1. They experienced the unity under the rule of an efficient government. l 2. They felt that they disliked being ruled by foreign countries‚ therefore nationalist feeling was aroused. l After the Congress of Vienna in 1815-16‚ they were divided into 8 states and the northern part of Italy was controlled by Austria-Hungary. l Again‚ they disliked the alien rule and
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German Foreign Policy International Relations 1871 - 1914 Part 1 1 Background Unification of Germany The Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 redrew the map of Europe and established the Confederation of German States (39 of them) which were under the control of Austria-Hungary. 2 Germany 1815 3 German Unification Prussia‚ the largest of these states‚ wanted to end Austrian domination and unite the states into a new German Empire under her own
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Bismarck and German Unification Before the 19th Century‚ German-speaking people had no idea of ‘national identity’ German speaking people occupied Central Europe‚ but the German states were usually very small (and the Germans there mixed with other races). The upper classes looked towards France as the foundation of European civilization. Although a German Confederation was created after 1815‚ it was not concerned with promoting a united Germany since the 39 rulers had no wish to see their
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into independent and nearly self-sufficient city-states. Although largely economically dependent on one another‚ these city-states were independent political entities and retained very strong isolationist tendencies. This isolationism hindered the unification of the Mesopotamian city-states‚ which eventually grew to twelve in number. By 3000 B.C.‚ Mesopotamian civilization had made contact with other cultures of the Fertile Crescent (a term first coined by James Breasted in 1916)‚ an extensive trade
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perspective new perspective new perspective new perspective new perspective new perspective new perspective • skills supplement• new perspective new perspective new perspective Tackling the Documents paper at AS Italian Unification Mark Allchorn. Watford Grammar School and AS/A Examiner A A LEVEL is the source work. In the AS Level it is worth 40 per cent of the total marks awarded for the exam. (The questions reproduced here are copyrighted to OCR.) N IMPORTANT COMPONENT
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