Germany lost territory both in Europe and Africa. In Europe‚ Germany lost territory in the north to set up new states in Poland‚ Lithuania‚ Estonia‚ and Latvia. Germany had annexed these states from Russia just a year earlier. German land in East Prussia‚ Posten and Upper Silesia was also taken away and given to Poland‚ giving the Poles access to the sea. The Rhineland was demilitarised as a buffer zone to stop the Germans from attacking France‚ and disputed land in Alsace-Lorraine was returned to
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politicians in history and not an underpart. It is not clear if his national feelings were for Germany or Prussia. The experience he gained for his later political career came from his early times as politician which he spend in Frankfurt‚ Russia and France‚ partially as ambassador for Germany. The most significant step in his political career was maybe when he was made chief minister of Prussia under Wilhelm I. His relation to the King and later the Kaiser was so good that he was much trusted by Wilhelm
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‘In the years before WW1 Germany was progressing towards an effective democracy’ how far do you agree? Germany before WW1 had a climate that possible could have led them to follow democracy. After all the biggest party in Reichstag was a democratic party and there was a constitution. Along with this the voting system was fairly progressed giving votes to most men and turnouts for these elections had increased showing political participation to be increasing along with general interest in politics
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To what extent was Wilhelmine Germany rived by internal tensions’ There were many reasons as to why Wilhelmine Germany had internal tensions and strains. A lot of these reasons are to do with the political side and the contradictions to do within Germany being seen as constitutional and democratic and then not issuing any of these policies. There are issues within the political parties themselves and conflating ideologies‚ as well as with the chancellors‚ the Kaiser and the government. Again another
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Unification of Germany Example Essays. Bismarck Master Planner or Opportunist? | | | | |Bismarck later declared that he had carefully planned unification of Germany in 5 clear | | |steps from 1862. He said that he had planned: 1.To Obtain Russian Neutrality; 2.To trick | |
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first of Prussia became Kaiser William the first of the new German empire. The creation of the empire was one of the most important developments of the nineteenth century. However‚ the process by which Germany came to be unified has been and area of heated historical debate ever since. There are many people and events to consider in weighing up contributions to unification‚ but no one man was more central to the process of unification than Otto Von Bismarck. Bismarck became chancellor of Prussia in 1962
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conflicts. Austria was one of the most powerful German states‚ however‚ it provided no leadership or hope in the uniting Germany as one. Since the Germanic people wanted unification‚ they turned to Prussia for help instead. Prussia was another one of Germany¡¯s strong states. To add to its power‚ Prussia established a German customs union in 1818 known as the Zollverein; a union that sought to increase trade and profits of its member states‚ excluding Austria. Austria tried to fight this by persuading
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Frederick the Great of Prussia and Joseph II of Austria both followed many enlightened policies while reforming but both of them did not utilize all of the enlightenment ideas. Both of the rulers were also similar in the ways they used enlightened ideas and how far they advanced these ideas. Frederick the Great of Prussia was a strong believer that the king was the first servant of the state. which meant he would do what is necessary for the long-term betterment of the state. The major thing he
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Wilhelm I‚ King of Prussia with terms for this affront. The messenger wouldn’t wait for Wilhelm to come back from his vacation to the Ems spa‚ and delivered the telegram to him [Wilhelm] there (this was considered extremely rude‚ and reflected badly on Napoleon III). Wilhelm sent von Bismarck a telegram of the French terms‚ and von Bismarck doctored the telegram and sharpened the words in his response to the French to‚ yet again‚ instigate another country to declare war on Prussia; thus began the
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reduced from somewhere around 300 to 39. THE LEADING STATES One of the main similarities as far as the unification process is that for both countries‚ unification was led by the most economically advanced state. In Germany the unification was led by Prussia‚ which had recently overtaken Austria as the most powerful
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