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Otto Von Bismarck Franco Prussian War
2,050 wordsNationalism is a popular sentiment that places the existence and well-being of the nation highest in the scale of political loyalties. In political terms, it signifies a person's willingness to work for the nation against foreign domination, whether political, economic, or cultural. Nationalism also implies a group's consciousness of shared history, language, race, and values. Its significance lies in its role in supplying the ties that make the nation-state a cohesive viable entity. Nationalism...
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Holy Roman Emperor Roman Catholic Church
2,204 wordsThe Reformation of the Roman Catholic Church was a major 16 th-century religious revolution. A revolution, which ended the ecclesiastical supremacy of the pope in Western Christendom and resulted in the establishment of the Protestant, churches. With the Renaissance that preceded and the French Revolution that followed, the Reformation completely altered the medieval way of life in Western Europe and initiated the era of modern history. Although the movement dates from the early 16 th century, w...
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Germany And Austria Britain And France
812 wordsIn 1871 two new major states of Europe had been formed the German Empire and the kingdom of Italy. The new German Empire, under the hand of Otto von Bismarck, was steered carefully, always with an eye upon France, for the Franco-Prussian War (187071) had left France thirsting for revenge and for recovery of the lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. 2 Germany had allied itself with Russia and Austria-Hungary in the Three Emperors League, but Austria-Hungary and Russia were not the best of friend...
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Franco Prussian War South German States
1,741 words... sian's were firing at them from the ground, the sailors would shout, Death to the invaders! or Vive la France! When the sharpshooters were unable to bring down these balloons, the Prussians tried unsuccessfully to develop weapons to bring them down. They developed a special anti-balloon field gun. The French Minister of the Interior, Leon Gambetta and his chief assistant, Charles Louis de Sales de Freycinet, left by balloon to go to Tours to take charge of the provisional government. The cro...
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Social Democratic Party Austria And Prussia
1,821 wordsGermany was the last of the great European powers to achieve political unity. In 1815, 39 independent German states stretched north and south from the Baltic Sea to the Alps, and east and west from the Rhine River to Russia. Political rivals Austria and Prussia were the most powerful of these German states. By 1871, however, the German states-excluding Austria and Switzerland-had united into a single nation. The Congress of Vienna had created the German Confederation in 1815 as a buffer against ...
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Chief Of Staff Austria Hungary
1,870 wordsThe instability in the Balkans was the weak link in the complex relationships that had developed in Europe. A little Balkan war was swamped in a struggle of European powers and there became a general upheaval in Europe, which destroyed its stable civilization. The clash with Serbia in July 1914 affected an issue of such magnitude, it is not surprising all the powers soon became involved; all of them had interests at stake. The underlying conflict of interest of particularly Russia and Austria-Hu...
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End Of Wwii Weimar Republic
1,389 wordsGermany from 1890, National Identities (1) The founding of German Empire, which is also being commonly referred to as Second Reich, coincided with German decisive victory over France in 1871. After Napoleons defeat in 1815, Holy Roman Empire of German Nation ceased to exist, which resulted in Germany being split in 39 independent states. Their independence was based on monarchic tradition, while there were no objective reasons for the Germany to be divided. This was realized by Prussian Prime Mi...
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University Students And German Unity
1,711 wordsUniversity students and German unity "Nineteenth Century" was an era marked by many historical, political, economic and cultural events in the world. According to some historians points of view, it stretched from 1815 to 1914. But others proved that several events which happened at the end of 18 th century influenced greatly the development of main ideas in the 19 th one; thats why the century defined from 1789 to 1914. During that period of time a lot of events happened: the Napoleonic Wars, fi...
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Power In Europe Treaty Of Versailles
803 wordsHitlers Road to Defeat Adolf Hitlers statement there shall never again be a November 1918 clarifies his fierce rage by the abortive November 1918 revolution in Germany and as well as the humiliating defeat in WWI. His career focus was to rescue a humiliated German nation from democratic ideology, the shackles of the Treaty of Versailles and eliminate internationalism, by which he meant the Jews within the German Empire (Haffner: 10), to create a Greater-German nationalism under despotic rule. Th...
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Universal Male Suffrage South German States
2,841 wordsNationalism: A General Survey In order to understand the present we must know its past such is the task of history. The crisis in the republics of former Yugoslavia, for example, is a bloody proof for the validity of this statement: a region infested with century old tensions that periodically re-erupts in civil wars. Only with a detailed knowledge of the country s tumultuous past can we fully understand the causes and intensity of the crisis. Symmetrically, when we look at a political map of Eu...
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Otto Von Bismarck German Empire
1,822 wordsOtto von Bismarck and his Policies- Otto von Bismarck or Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince von Bismarck, Count von Bismarck-Sch nhau sen, Duke von Lauenburgwas a Prussian statesman who in 1871 founded the German Empire and served as its first chancellor for 19 years. Once the empire was established, he actively and skillfully pursued pacific policies in foreign affairs, succeeding in preserving the peace in Europe for about two decades. But in domestic policies his patrimony was less benign, for he fa...
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Roman Catholic Church Holy Roman Emperor
3,893 wordsThe Reformation of the Roman Catholic Church was a major 16 th-century religious revolution, which ended the ecclesiastical supremacy of the pope in Western Christendom. Thus, resulting in the establishment of the Protestant churches. With the Renaissance proceeding and the French Revolution that followed, the Reformation completely altered the medieval way of life in Western Europe and initiated the era of modern history. Although the movement dates from the early 16 th century, when Martin Lut...
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Roman Catholic Church Holy Roman Emperor
4,014 wordsThe Reformation of the Roman Catholic Church was a major 16 th-century religious revolution. A revolution, which ended the ecclesiastical supremacy of the pope in Western Christendom and resulted in the establishment of the Protestant, churches. With the Renaissance that preceded and the French Revolution that followed, the Reformation completely altered the medieval way of life in Western Europe and initiated the era of modern history. Although the movement dates from the early 16 th century, w...
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Holy Roman Empire South German States
2,661 wordsRISE AND GROWTH OF NATIONAL STATES FORMATION AND GROWTH OF PRUSSIA EARLY HISTORY OF PRUSSIA. The German Day of Brandenburg in north central Europe on the Baltic Sea was a part of the Holy Roman Empire. This was ruled by the Hohenzollern family, a line of rulers, called Electors. Since the 15 th Century they had gradually extended their borders. FREDERICK WILLIAM 1640 - 1688 -THE GREAT ELECTOR. Frederick made Prussia first among the German states. He centralized the government, and raised enough ...
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