Question is the most obscure‚ most involved and most comprehensive problem in the whole of modern history". What makes Germanys ’ question so difficult to pinpoint is the fact that for all of its existence‚ until 1871 and again in 1990‚ it has struggled to unify a nation into a single state. As history shows‚ the German nation has struggled to create its own nation-state. Unlike France and Britain‚ Germany was a nation before it was a state. That is‚ its people had a strong sense of nationalism and
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BISMARCK Analyze Bismarck’s impact on Germany between 1871 and 1890. Compare and contrast Bismarck’s policies towards Austria and France between 1862 and 1871. Bismarcks policies both at home and abroad‚ between the years 1871 and 1890‚ merely stored up problems for the future‚ both for Germany and Europe.To what extent do you agree with this verdict? Assess the aims and achievements of Bismarcks foreign and domestic policies between 1871 and 1890. Analyse the successes and failures of Bismarck’s
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THE AFTERMATH OF NAZI RULE Report from Germany HANNAH ARENDT waste the moral structure of Western society‚ committing crimes that nobody would have believed possible‚ while her conquerors buried in rubble the visible marks of more than a thousand years of German history. Then into this devastated land‚ truncated by the Oder-Neisse borderline and hardly able to sustain its demoralized and exhausted population‚ streamed millions of people from the Eastern provinces‚ from the Balkans and from Eastern
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Date: April 18‚ 2012 Subject: Book Review The book “Imperial Germany 1871-1918” by Volker R. Berghahn has the under title Economy‚ Society‚ Culture and Politics and was first published in 1994 by Berghahn books. The used edition is the revised and expanded edition published in 2005 and summarizes the events in the ‘Kaiserreich’ (1871-1918). Furthermore‚ the book has 388 pages and is divided in five parts which are Economy‚ Society‚ Culture‚ the Realm of Politics‚ and World War
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Explain the impact and importance of the railroads in the unification of Germany Germany‚ during the two decades of the first major railroads being built‚ was separated into three-dozen individual states. The railroads provided an opportunity for those states to merge into a united country. This was accomplished through a unified trading system‚ linking the industrial cities‚ uniting Western and Eastern Prussia‚ delivering a more effective structure to law and order and competition between states
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France down was not only to make people fonder of Germany‚ but also to take its spot as one of the most important countries in continental Europe. Bismarck tried to raise nationalism not only for the kingdom as a total‚ but also from its most important division‚ Prussia. The Austro-Prussian war was fought as a civil war among German states‚ and‚ with the victory of Prussia‚ the state became strongly
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Bismarck was crucial in the process of unifying Germany‚ but his diplomatic skills and achievements certainly were not a sole contributing factor. As A.J.P. Taylor comments‚ “Bismarck’s greatness lay not in mastering events‚ but in going with events so as to seem to master them.” In other words‚ Bismarck managed to identify favorable circumstances and take advantage of them — there was already some economic unity in the Zollverein‚ a growing German identity and a strong army. His main goals were
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Within the context of 1789-1890‚ was the unification of Germany a result of economic‚ political or military forces? Numerous factors have lead to the progressive creation of a unified Germany by 1871; such factors are fundamentally related to economic‚ political or military origins. To accurately understand the reasoning behind the unification‚ one must look at the history preceding it – The after-effects of the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire; The significance of the French revolutions and
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Germany‚ a country rich in culture and heritage‚ yet plagued by the fallout of World War I and World War II‚ has progressed to become the centerpiece of the European Union and the world’s third richest economy. The first German Empire dates back to the Roman Empire starting in the 8th century AD. During the Middle Ages the German Empire fended off many attacks against their soil from the Hungarians and the Slavs. Fighting and power struggles continued until the 1400’s‚ when the modern world gradually
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Guide to GCSE History exam – Unit 2 Depth Study 1 hour 15 minutes Question 1 1a (source inference) What can you learn from source A about…? 4 marks (6 minutes) Source A: From a book about the history of Germany‚ published in 2009. On the evening of 27 February 1933‚ the Reichstag building was destroyed by a massive fire. A young Dutchman‚ a Communist supporter called Marinus van der Lubbe‚ was caught on the site. Van der Lubbe was put on trial‚ found guilty and executed. But his
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