NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
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He felt they had too many religious ideas
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He felt that they drew people’s allegiance away from the German state.
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He worried they would join forces.
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He felt they had the financial means to support an uprising.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bismarck, a staunch Protestant, never fully trusted the loyalty of the Roman Catholics within his newly created German Empire and became concerned by the Vatican Council’s proclamation of 1870 concerning papal infallibility.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why did Bismarck try to crush the Catholic Church and the Socialists? Bismarck felt that they were the two greatest threats to Germany because they drew people’s allegiance away from the German state.
Detailed explanation-3: -Bismarck believed that the Roman Catholic Church held too much political power; moreover, he was concerned about the emergence of the Catholic Centre Party (organised in 1870). Accordingly, he began an anti-Catholic campaign known as the Kulturkampf.
Detailed explanation-4: -He tried to dissolve socialist groups because he believed that they did not have full allegiance to Germany. He feared that they would revolt so eh tried to shut them up before they could. Why did William II ask Bismarck to resign?