Prussia

Saxony, Hanover and some smaller German states, and Prussia, with the support of Italy declared war on each other. It was started by Otto von Bismarck, a German statesman, to push Austria out of the German Confederation. He did this against the wishes of his king. Bismarck wanted the German unification under Prussian control. Prior to this though, Austria and Prussia were salty because of their argument over the governing of Schleswig-Holstein. Prussia confronted Austria for control of the…

together and help end the war. The Austro-Prussian War took place in 1866. Bismarck had to get rid of Austrian influence in Germany, so he partnered up with Cavour in Italy and provoked Austria in a war. Prussia was more industrialized than Austria, which means the war was over in 7 weeks. Prussia won and Austria gave up Holstein and was out of German affairs. Northern Germany was unified, at this time Italy got Venetia. The balance of power in Europe was upset. Germany emerged as a major power…

Bismarck utilized this foreign policy in order to expand Prussia’s rule over Germany while minimizing any casualties or war from Prussia itself by manipulating other countries and people in order to achieve certain goals. For instance, in December 1863, Bismarck after seeing Denmark was planning to incorporate Schleswig, convinced Austria to invade Schleswig without involving Prussia at all in order to maintain the safety of his country while still gaining dominance over German…

Austria and Prussia both gained political power as the war and the threat of war aided the Strong kings greatly in building absolute monarchies. They monopolized the political power by imposing and collecting taxes without the people's consent. They also maintained strong standing armies to protect their countries and conducted relations as they pleased with the other states. Austria was exhausted after the thirty years war, and their effort to destroy the Protestantism in the German land had…

his country together against the rest of the world. Consequently, this build tensions and helped to set up World War II. In the Franco-Prussian war, Germany had won a territory from France called Alsace Lorraine. They also had a portion of East Prussia and one from Denmark. They had the entire Polish Corridor under their control…

(Ghervas) Every paper was unique, to their understanding of this project. Because of that, I ranked the countries based off the strength of their paper’s, and their persuasiveness. After reading all five papers, I ranked them as such: Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, France. Britain won the this round because they found their argument and supported it without any fluff. What I mean by this is, some papers lost the purpose of their argument by writing paragraphs that only had biographical…

age anyhow, as socialist programs and interventions would threaten his profits. There were some who cared about the poor, however. In Document 7, Bettin von Arnim describes their plight in vivid detail, going so far as to indicate the King of Prussia has a moral responsibility to intervene, as her book title suggests. Unlike Hansemann, who wrote privately, von…

Essentially; Russia, Prussia, Britain and Austria attempt to settle all their negotiations on their own. Through many memoranda and attempted alliances the negotiations end up driven into a stalemate. In this stagnation one of Kissingers biggest points can be seen. There is an…

1. The four allies met at the Congress of Vienna which there goals were to try to sustain away from the French. They agreed to build up barriers against French aggression. They also wanted Prussia to receive more territory on France’s eastern border to become stronger against France. Some of the other goals they wanted was how they want ideas on how to achieve the balance of power. By accomplishing that, victors used the balance of power to settle dangerous disputes at the Congress of Vienna by…

Nationalism became similar to a new religion for people in Europe and America because of the unity and solidarity it promised, as well as the economic benefits of increased modernization and societal benefit of liberation. The goals of nationalism were to unite people of similar heritage, ethnicity, and culture, as well as increase representation of the common people in politics, civil rights, and economic boom through modernization and industrialization. France nationalists goals were seen…