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1871: Germany Becomes a Nation
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on December 8, 2015 (go to class or lectures)


Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
seismic, humiliating, nation, French, economic, Protestant, muscles, theater, confederation, United, sacrifice, fragmentation, Napoleon, Bavaria, politico, cajoling, rivalry, state, 20th, Bismarck, Prussian, powerhouses, water, industrialists, Sino, 19th, resilience, outbreaks, illusion, England, Reichstag, neighbors, Habsburgs, Berlin, Kaiser, Iron, decisive, local
Japan ushered in a new age for the Japanese people
but in the course of their expansion began to transform the geo-political of East Asia
with tremendous consequences for the century
1894-95: First -Japanese War
became almost like a template of what would happen in the rest of the world
Germany, late century
like Japan, national integration depends on the formation of power
often in its assertion over
empire is used as a concept and instrument for building
a model of recovering from , a collection of feudal statelets,
the remnants of an empire now being brought together over the course of the 19th century
particularly in the wake of the invasions into Germany during the Napoleonic wars
and in some ways borrowing from for examples of legal modernization
like the Japanese
Japan borrowed modern ideas from the States
Germany borrowed ideas from and France
consolidating the state, creating an of a shared German space which in some sense had never existed before
but arguments were made to the opposite of this
that Germany was , while there were actually many Catholics and Jews
Germany had an identity that was somehow counterpoised to the other dominating national identity of Europe, France
became a long-standing conflict
sowed the seeds for the in the 20th century
the looked upon the German empire as a threat to their strategic interests
Germany faced challenges that were very close to them
Japan at least had the advantage of being separated by large bodies of
Otto von (1815-1898)
a shrewd and calculating
was the strong man of the single regimes of the German of states
managed to promote the idea of a , an imperial ruler who would issue his dominion over all of German-speaking peoples from a capital, a national capital, in
Germans like Japanese, to build nation, relied upon
schools, universities
language campaigns
newspapers, magazines
to transcend the local ideas of Prussia,
promoting new business elites
looking for a national market
the birth of emerging
many of the firms are still the companies that dominate the economic landscape of Germany today
also needed a way of these elites into participating in unification
representation in the national political entities like the national parliament, the
wars
army became the important instrument for creating a new national model of integration
laid the foundations for a national war with France, 1870-71
this war was
Prussia spanked the French
it was a deeply war for the French
put the French national identities into another one of its crises
emboldened the idea that the Prussian military could pull the German nation together
a decisive moment of unification for the new German nation
after 1871, Germany began to consolidate more and more led but Bismarck
first Chancellor Bismarck
power radiating out to a unified Germany from Berlin
the system of and Blood
iron = exemplified the toughness and of the new nation
blood =
unification of Germany altered the power balance of Europe
created a new model of territorial inside the heart of Europe
with much more lethal potential
Germany and Japan almost like echoes of each other
phenomenal examples of the power of nationalism to construct new state systems that could use its resources at the expense of old systems adjacent to them
political, military, and economic
not unlike a teenage boy who returns to school from summer vacation grown and all bulked up with , as the French and the Chinese were to discover
Vocabulary:
Spelling Corrections:
echos ⇒ echoes
Ideas and Concepts:
From the historical parallels department via this morning's History Since 1300 class: "In the mid to late nineteenth century, Germany and Japan were almost like echoes of each other, two phenomenal examples of the power of nationalism to construct a new state system that could use its resources at the expense of old systems adjacent to it, both countries now a political, military, and economic powerhouse, which, not unlike a teenage boy who returns to school from summer vacation all grown up and bulked out with muscles, each was poised to alter the power relationships among his peers, which the French and the Chinese were soon to discover."