AP European History

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The Age of Nation States

• AP European History
• Kaiser Scherrman
• That is a cool title!
• If I cant be Scherrman the Great, I will be
  KAISER!

2
The Crimean War

• Do you know the
• Picture?

BIG
3
The Crimean War

• The Eastern Question?
• Consequence A change in attitude.
• The use of the Concert of Europe ideals of the
  Vienna Settlement to solve international problems
  is NO LONGER!
• 25 years of free-for all international
  adventures!
• If my military is stronger than yoursso be it!
  It is now my foreign policy, which is also now my
  domestic policy.

4
Italian Unification

• The Two (Due) Giuseppes?
• Mazzini Garibaldi
• Romantic Republican Nationalists!

5
Risorgimento

• Count Camillio Cavour moderately liberal gets
  the unification job done right realpolitik
  style

Economics and material progress demand
unification! HOW DOES
HE DO IT? (Use the following terms to answer
Crimean War, Treaty of Plombières, Guiseppe
Garibaldis Red Shirts)
Machiavellian?
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Risorgimento
A little harder to accomplish.

• Very industrialized.
• Economy was linked to the rest of Europe
• Urban working class emerging as a powerful force.

• A new Conservative Constitutional Monarchy was
  established for Italy.
• Parliament was two houses
• A Senate appointed by the King
• Camber of Deputies elected
• Ministers were responsible to the monarch, not
  Parliament.
• Instead of the progressive govt Cavour had
  established in Piedmont, Italy got
• transformismo a system of bribery, favors, or a
  possible seat in the cabinet transformed
  political opponents into government supporters.
• Italian PoliticsCorruption

Life in the North?

• Rural, poor, backward society.
• Large landowners and peasants were the main
  social classes.

• King Victor Emmanuel II-The First King of Italy

Life in the South?
7
German Unification

• To get our OTTO

Frederick William IV
William I Prussian Patriot Pro-Military
Bismarck The Iron Chancellor HE IS ON MY LIST!
8
Otto von Bismarck

• Born in Schönhausen in 1815.
• (Prussian Provence of Saxony)
• Was a Junker, an aristocratic estate owner.
• Elected to Prussian Legislature in 1847.
• Was a firey royalist and reactionary
  conservative.
• Opposed the Revolutions of 1848.
• The humiliation of Olmutz forced Prussia to
  give into Austrian dominance of the German
  Confederation.
• In 1851, he was appointed the Prussian envoy to
  the Diet of the German Confederation in
  Frankfurt.
• Here, he became more pragmatic and realized to
  eventually stand up to Austria, Prussia would
  have to support a unification plan.

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Otto

• He served as ambassador to Russia for 4 years.
• He learned early that Russia was an important
  country to have as an ally.
• He also served as an ambassodor to France and
  England.
• These allowed him to meet and measure future
  adversaries
• King William I was in a deadlock battle with the
  liberal Prussian Diet in 1862.
• He, against the wishes of his wife and son (the
  future King) appointed Bismarck as
  Minister-President Foreign Minister. (Prime
  Minister)

10
Bismarcks 1st speech

• Germany is not looking to Prussias liberalism
  but to her powerThe great questions of the day
  will not be decided by speeches and majority
  decisions-that was the mistake of 1848-149-but by
  IRON and BLOOD!

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The Iron Chancellor or the Agitator?
12
The Ems Dispatch

• Read versions.
• Meant to insult and provoke a reaction from the
  French and the Prussians.
• Shows Bismarcks knowledge and willingness to
  manipulate popular opinion.

13
The Proclamation of kaiser Wilhelm I
Bismarck
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Why Versailles?
Viva la France!
GERMANY IS THE NEW POWER IN CENTRAL EUROPE!!
15

• Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see
  them being made.
• A government must not waiver once it has chosen
  it's course. It must not look to the left or
  right but go forward.
• I have seen three emperors in their nakedness,
  and the sight was not inspiring.

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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during
a war or before an election.
Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong it is a
geographical expression.
When you want to fool the world, tell the
truth.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes
of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think
hard before starting a war.
What did he say? What does he mean?