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    nationalism for their home can be extreme and have groups believe they are superior to other countries. It has been a factor in history that can break people apart or bring them together. Germany is a great example of nationalism being a unifying force. The unification of Germany created an incredibly strong nation. Had Germany not been unified, the world would be extremely different. After the Holy Roman Empire period, the Germanic states were various and had very different governments ruling them. When

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    THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY In 1871 the thirty-eight states of what was once the Holy Roman Empire, re-united to become what was known in the early twentieth century as simply, The German Empire, united under the rule of the German Emperor, or Kaiser. There are many factors which led to the unification of the German states; liberalism, nationalism, Otto Von Bismarck, fear of ‘another Napoleon', the Prussian King William I, and the three wars Prussia fought. One of the key factors which led to

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    to talk about the unification of Germany and Italy and how these two places went about unification and how that affected Europe. Also, I’m going to compare and contrast the effects that these two places unifying had on Europe. Before the French revolution both Italy and Germany were divided into many states, Germany was divided way more than Italy with more than three hundred states which had to have been harder to unite. Many people don’t know about the unification of Germany and Italy occurred

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    The Unification of Germany Bismarck Otto von Bismarck achieved the unification of the disjointed German states through the skillful understanding of realpolitikand the Machiavellian use of war as a political tool to eliminate Germany's rival nations, gain the support of the German people and gain territory. This ultimately created a German legacy of strong militaristic tendencies, scheming national relations, and economic clout challenging the European heavyweights

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    Many believe that Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck, later known as just Bismarck, was the main reason for German unification. Bismarck was the first chancellor of this new country as Bismarck had changed 39 smaller states, into one large industrial power. The unification of Germany had a large impact on the balance of powers in Europe. Bismarck dominated Germany and European politics for nearly 30 years. However some historians argue that Bismarck was only this successful and powerful because

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    Unification of Germany On January 18, 1871, the German Empire was proclaimed宣佈æˆç«‹. It is a turning point轉æ©é»ž in the European history, and was one of the remote causesé å›  that led to the outbreak of the First World War. In fact, the success of German unification was due to the interplay互相交織 of many factors. Ideological ----------- a. Liberalism: Ideas of liberalism had been sown by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. During the

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    Unification of Italy and Germany By 1871 both the kingdom of Italy and the empire of Germany were united. Even though both countries used popular trends to that time, both liberalism and nationalism, the process unifying these two countries was very different. The end result was Germany emerging as a strong nation and Italy appropriately, the weaker. Italy’s problems started with the fact that it didn’t have one main ruler, but two people and a concept, resulting in a different approach to

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    Germany's Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the primary force behind the unification of Germany in 1871, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched in February 1939. Work was completed in August 1940, when she was commissioned into the German fleet. Bismarck and her sister ship Tirpitz were the largest battleships ever built by Germany, and two of the largest built by any European power. In the course of the warship's eight-month

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    German Unification Germany became a unified country in 1871 under the leadership of Otto Von Bismarck. The separate states up until this time were independent, Prussia being the strongest and most influential, followed by Austria. There are several contributing factors to the unification of Germany, the most influential of which being the leadership of Otto Von Bismarck. The three wars that Prussia fought with Denmark, Austria and France also played significant roles in the unification of the

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    was the most significant factor contributing to German Unification from 1815-1871: Bismarck’s diplomacy or prevailing conditions in post-Napoleonic Europe? The first secondary source is an excerpt from Norman Rich’s “Great Power Diplomacy” was written with the belief that Otto von Bismarck lead Germany to Unification, and was integral to the unification process. Norman Rich focusses on Bismarck and his actions on the road towards unification. We compare that excerpt with Freidrich Meinecke’s “Lack

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