U.s. Honors Pre Wwi Homework

Despite the fact that Italy was unified, it wasn’t as nearly as strong as Germany was becoming. Bismarck joined both authoritarianism and nationalism to increase Prussia’s power. He was a very clever diplomat and used whatever means possible to work towards his goal. Bismarck’s Realpolitiks, the pursuing of realistic goals by any available method instead of the pursuit of an ideology. Bismarck never wanted to have enemies for long and hoped to pacify the Liberals with foreign policy achievement, notably the unification of Germany. He wanted to exclude Austria from the unification process. This led to the Austria-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars. His plan was successful. Even with the fact south German states were reluctant to join in his unification because of strong religious and political traditions. After the overpowering of France in 1871 the southern states finally joined. This was the defeat the brought them together.

Although more countries than Germany itself is responsible for starting the first World War, Germany in its history to become a nation performed certain actions that helped guide the world toward war. War after war was fought in order to solidify Germany as a nation both politically and morally. These wars gave the German people a sense of unity but also fueled rage, hatred, and fear by those that Germany defeated along its path to become a nation. These feelings are not easily forgotten. These feelings could be seen rising up during World War I by the nation of France, who was defeated earlier by the Germans over land disputes as part of Germany’s quest to become a nation, one of the allied powers in the war. As another result of these wars and the quest to build Germany into a nation, Bismark put together a web of complex treaties with varies nations in Europe. These same treaties where then unraveled by William so that Germany could advance as a civilization. Through the actions that the Germans took in order to become a nation did not see them making too many friends as it made them enemies. It is these actions that lead the nations of France, England, and Russia to go on edge and distrust Germany and build an arsenal to defend themselves. When a nation displays the actions that Germany displayed it leads people, and nations alike, to believe that they are aggressive and that they plan to take military action against them in order to expand. This then causes distrust and fear that lead people to take certain measures so when the time comes for war they can defend themselves. As those nations build their arsenals tensions grow even higher. As these tensions grow high, countries form allies with other countries which

During the period of 1864 to 1871, Bismarck led Prussia into three significant wars. As said by G.A Craig in The Germans, 1991, the unified Germany was “created in 1871 by Bismarck’s diplomacy and Prussian military power.” The first of these wars was the war with Denmark over the provinces of Schleswig-Holstein in 1864. Prussia and Austria combined their military forces and won against the much weaker Denmark with considerable ease. This was a contributing factor in the second of the three wars, which was fought against Austria, as the two states

Many historians believe that due to the Wilhelmine Era and the expansion of the German nation, led to the outbreak of World War One. During the Bismarck era, Bismarck 's main goal was to keep France isolated and stay in good relations with Austria and Russia so that it would prevent a war. Although Bismarck 's foreign policy was creating cooperation, it did not last very long. The spark of World War one came from the Wilhelmine era, which turned away from everything Bismarck’s foreign policy represented. The expansion of the military scared Europe, the industrialization of the railroad was a suspicion to other countries, and the expansion of domestic supporters led to the alliance of the France, Britain, and Russia known as the Triple Entente.

Wilhelm II: Our policy have both pros and cons. The pro of the policy of Germany is, its diplomatic works successfully delayed the final war for about 40 years. The con is, since Germany is a monarchy state which control by conservative nobles and powerful officials group, it haven’t enough flexibility to solve unexpected events such as the betray of Russia. It finally cause the failure of Germany because of the pressure from both France and Russia.

1. Bismarck 's foreign policy was entirely based on preserving his power and Germany’s throughout Europe. After 1870 he was against the idea of expanding Germany and believed that the country was “satiated.” Instead, Bismarck wanted to keep the peace among European countries rather than engaging in war, therefore keeping Germany safe from attack. He planned to do this through the use of gaining european alliances which included Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Russia. “Believing that France would remain Germany 's enemy because of the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine, an action he had opposed because of the enmity it would cause,” he left France isolated (Germany-

Following World War I, America turned inward and began to focus on itself. Yet, coming home from war Americans were also fearful of communism due to the recent Bolshevik Revolution where Lenin and the Bolshevik party gained control of Russia and made it communist. This scare led to drastic changes within our nation’s borders as America fought to keep communist influence out of its borders. This was such an impactful event that even the Attorney General of the time, A. Mitchell Palmer, set up a section in the Justice Department to handle issues relating to radicals, this sect of the Justice Department would be very active as, “More than ten thousand people were arrested—some for membership in Communist or left-wing groups, others on no greater pretext than that they looked or sounded foreign—and then jailed and interrogated with little regard for their right to due process” (Lehman, Phelps 260). This severe response to the scare of Communism demonstrates an inward focusing of America. Similarly, in the post-World War I time period America would demonstrate its interest in nativism which it would demonstrate through multiple acts being passed on immigration primarily, the Immigration Act of 1924. During this period of nativism, “Through the whole movement, from 1921 on, for more drastic curbs on the new immigration ran an increasingly assertive racial nativism” (Higham 313). That is America had

Bismarck had brought Germany closer to unification, Thus, meaning Bismarck had an important role in the progression of the unification of Germany. Some historians argue whether or not Bismarck was an opportunist or a planner. In the case of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 it is evident that Bismarck deliberately planned the outbreak of war against Austria. In William Carr’s Germany 1815-1945 he quotes a conversation between Bismarck to Disraeli in 1862: “when the army has been brought to such a state as to command a respect then I shall take the first opportunity to declare war with Austria” proving that Bismarck had planned to go to war with Austria. but he also took advantage of an opportunity which enabled him to go to war with Austria as he stated. Therefore Bismarck can be viewed as both a planner and an opportunist. The wars of unification helped unite Germany as all members of the Bund came together and fought as one in all of these wars.

Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm were two German officials around the time of world war one. They both had foreign policies and they were both pretty different. Bismarck’s foreign policy had many aims. One of the aims was to leave territorial expansion behind. He unified Germany and to do so had to incorporate many other states into Prussia. He was also very much in favor of peace instead of war. He also never tried to strengthen the naval forces of Germany especially not to ruin the relationship with England. Next, he decided to keep France isolated as well as friendless so that could not start a war as revenge. He also focused on Germany 's relationship with Austria and Russia. He also distrusted Italy.

In 1862 Bismarck was appointed as the Minister President of Prussia. Bismarck 's views were that of Realpolitik. Realpolitik is a way of viewing things in a practical manner not in a moral or ideological way. (162) This was evident throughout his career. During his time Minister President, he mostly focused on foreign policy. Although domestically he wanted to stop the liberals who were in the Prussian parliament. liberals thought that the government 's actions at the time were unconstitutional. Bismarck, on the other hand, believed that there was no way that the constitution was meant to undermine the state. (163) Shortly after this he moved his focus to his foreign policy, the unification of the German states. This all started with his blood and iron speech in 1862 where he is quoted saying, “Not by speeches and votes of the majority, are the great questions of the time decided — that was the error of 1848 and 1849 — but by iron and blood.”. (163) This lead up to a number wars to achieve his goal of unification.

wanted more power. The Kaiser Wilhelm II wanted to match the great Naval power of the British Empire, something that he greatly admired (Winter 31,) and gain territories abroad such as had been done by France and Great Britain. It is the personality of the Kaiser, “when he was provoked or offended – and he always seemed in danger of being offended – Wilhelm’s language was full of spleen, hatred, and rhetorical violence” (Winter 32,) along with his position as the Supreme War Lord that lead to trouble. The violent and obsessive Kaiser and his disillusions are what leads to trouble. In Germany’s final gamble with the Kaiser’s Battle, the Kaiser childishly got ahead of himself with excitement over an effort that resulted in eventual failure. Admiral Georg Von Müller recounted that the Kaiser yelled from a train to a guard on a platform that “the battle is won! The English have been utterly defeated” (Winter 292.) However, as it is worded by Winter, “the Kaiser’s emotions clouded his vision. Within a week, the advance had ground to a halt” (294.) It is the disillusionment of the Kaiser and his immaturity that set the tone for Germany’s failure. The failed, flawed, over-emotional, irrational, and infantile leadership of the Kaiser set the tone for the poor decisions and failed missions to come for Germany. The next major fault would be the Schlieffen Plan as it was the first failed battle of Germany’s, but it was not the only battle where the results were not as what was

Many historians such as Fritz Fischer have argued that Germany had a strong desire for power which led to the outbreak of world war one. Fischer believed that Germany had plans before ww1 for European domination in which then led to violent foreign policy, eventually led to war. after Bismarck resigned, Germany changed as Kaiser Wilhelm II followed Weltpolitik which means world policy. This was about how Germany is becoming a world power. Before time, Bismarck bitterly predicted that Germany would be ruined under the leadership of Wilhelm II. It is argued that one of the main reasons why peace was kept before Wilhelm was because of Bismarck. The foreign policy became more aggressive, for example, the naval race between Germany and Great Britain. It created a great friction between Germany and great Britain. Wilhelm ordered to build many large and powerful boats. Britain did not listen and responded by increasing the size of its navy, launching a new ship, the

This led to Germany highly prioritizing colonies and resources, leading to them having conflicts and tense relationships with other countries, which in turn caused Germany to push for World War 1 to start.

Firstly, Germany was trying to expand its empire, and Britain and France had large empires. Therefore, as Germany became more power it also wanted an empire. Britain and France did not want this, as a big German empire was a threat to both Britain and France’s Empires. Thus, this made

World War 1 played a major role for the future of many European countries. Germany came into the war to assist Austria after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Poor decision-making by Germanys officials to attack American ships gave the United States reason to now enter the war after trying to evade it. This was a major turning point and assisted in the winning of the British and French. However this war affected Germany tremendously. They lost territory and had to pay reparations to the victors. The people wanted a new leader to give them change and return them to being a super power and from this war came about a military giant who would now change Germanys tactics and mission in the world.