NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
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Germany was divided into smaller states ran by Princes or Kings in a loose confederation led by Austria.
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Germany was a unified, industrialized empire with a strong military.
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Germany was a loose confederation of states led by Prussia because of its strong military.
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Germany was unified, but had not been able to industrialize because of lack of natural resources.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the 1860s, Otto von Bismarck, then Minister President of Prussia, provoked three short, decisive wars against Denmark, Austria, and France, aligning the smaller German states behind Prussia in its defeat of France. In 1871 he unified Germany into a nation-state, forming the German Empire.
Detailed explanation-2: -The empire was founded toward the end of two decades of rapid economic expansion, during which the German states surpassed France in steel production and railway building. By 1914 Germany was an industrial giant second only to the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -The four major reasons behind the unification of Germany are the role of Bismark, the strength of the Prussian economy, the decline of Austria, and the military power of Prussia. The economic strength of Prussia was one of the most important reasons behind the unification of Germany.
Detailed explanation-4: -German unification was achieved by the force of Prussia, and enforced from the top-down, meaning that it was not an organic movement that was fully supported and spread by the popular classes but instead was a product of Prussian royal policies.