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World War 1 Timeline
French Revolution
Congress of Vienna
Revolutions of 1848
Bismarck
Austro-Prussian war
Franco-Prussian war
Unification of Germany
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Because of Bismarck’s intelligent leadership, the individual German states became a whole through the Austro and the Franco-prussian wars, even though opposing views existed between the southern and the northern german states. (The southern states were mostly protestant, while the northern ones were mostly catholic).
Rising Germany provoked fear in some European nations because of Germany’s strong military. Failure to maintain the treaties and because of the suspicions of other nations, Germany had only one reliable ally at the end, Austria- Hungary, with whose partnership Germany joined WWI.
After the Austro-Prussian war, Bismarck played tricks again and this time, Prussia went to war with France. This war resulted in the southern German states to come under Prussia.
This way, Germany was finally formed as a whole nation under the leadership of Bismarck. Later, its thriving economy and industrialization worried the other major powers of Europe, earning Germany quite a lot of enemies that it goes to war against for WWI.
Again this plays a role in the starting of WWI, because it’s the first step to an unified Germany, a nation responsible for the great war along with other major European wars.
Bismarck keenly provoked Austria Hungary into declaring war on Prussia and Prussia won, making the northern German states favor the Prussians and join it as the “Northern German Confederation”.
He played a major role in making Germany a strong nation, and he led with keen intelligence by forming alliances (and interconnected alliances) to ensure a peaceful outcome for Germany. But it was these alliances that also led to the WWI, because they fell in the hands of the wrong leader.
Bismarck was super intelligent as a leader and later formed a fully unified Germany through the Austro-prussian and the Franco-prussian wars.
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The revolutions of 1848 were a series of revolutions against European Monarchies. During this time, liberalism and nationalism we idealised together. The main focus was the idea of freedom but was lost back into conservatives.
Because Germany wasn’t really a whole country before, Prussia and Austria Hungary disputed about what to do with these individual states. Through the Congress of Vienna, the German states were unified and was known as “German Confederation” under the responsibility of Austria.
This played a role in WWI because it began the process of acquiring a great nation, Germany, involved in both WWI and WWII.
The French revolution was an event in European history that caused the rise of Napoleon and the ban of absolute monarchy. Napoleon formed the Rhine Confederation, which included a lot of German states, Prussia and Austria Hungary.
After that, the desire to overthrow the french led to the rise of German Nationalism. This results in Germany as a whole later- a major playing role in WWI.
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