The Wars of the unification of Germany
Date Submitted: 04/09/2004 07:51:18
Category: / History / European History
Length: 7 pages (1874 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 7 pages (1874 words)
Liberal sentiment in Germany had always been stirred by a desire to separate Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark. The liberals
called for a repudiation of international agreements by Prussia (such as the 1852 Protocol which put the Danish issue on ice),
while Bismarck declared in the Diet that he would not be a party to a breach of international obligations.
So Bismarck made an agreement with Austria, the avowed enemy of German unity, to proceed within the context …
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…nd hence military value.
Northern France was occupied until 1873, when the indemnity was completely paid.
On January 18, 1871 William was crowned as the Emperor of Germany in the French Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. The
Germans know how to add insult to injury and thus lay the groundwork for future wars. Victor Hugo made a profound
prophesy at this time that France would retake Alsace and Lorraine and even the Rhineland and make Germany a republic.
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