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Notes on video lecture:
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:
Sino, sacrifice, United, Bavaria, 19th, decisive, seismic, illusion, Kaiser, England, fragmentation, cajoling, Berlin, state, Prussian, humiliating, resilience, Bismarck, Reichstag, nation, confederation, water, industrialists, Protestant, economic, powerhouses, muscles, French, neighbors, Iron, theater, 20th, outbreaks, Napoleon, local, Habsburgs, rivalry, politico
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Japan ushered in a new age for the Japanese people
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but in the course of their expansion began to transform the geo-political                of East Asia
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with tremendous consequences for the          century
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1894-95: First         -Japanese War
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became almost like a template of what would happen in the rest of the world
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Germany, late          century
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like Japan, national integration depends on the formation of            power
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often in its assertion over                   
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empire is used as a concept and instrument for              building
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a model of recovering from                           , a collection of feudal statelets,
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the remnants of an empire now being brought together over the course of the 19th century
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particularly in the wake of the              invasions into Germany during the Napoleonic wars
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and in some ways borrowing from                  for examples of legal modernization
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like the Japanese
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Japan borrowed modern ideas from the              States
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Germany borrowed ideas from                and France
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consolidating the state, creating an                  of a shared German space which in some sense had never existed before
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but arguments were made to the opposite of this
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that Germany was                     , while there were actually many Catholics and Jews
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Germany had an identity that was somehow counterpoised to the other dominating national identity of Europe, France
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became a long-standing conflict
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sowed the seeds for the                    in the 20th century
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the                    looked upon the German empire as a threat to their strategic interests
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Germany faced challenges that were very close to them
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Japan at least had the advantage of being separated by large bodies of           
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Otto von                  (1815-1898)
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a shrewd and calculating                 
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was the strong man of the single regimes of the German                            of states
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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             
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Germans like Japanese, to build nation, relied upon
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schools, universities
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language campaigns
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newspapers, magazines
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to transcend the local ideas of Prussia,               
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promoting new business elites
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looking for a national market
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the birth of emerging                             
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many of the firms are still the companies that dominate the economic landscape of                  Germany today
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also needed a way of                  these elites into participating in unification
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representation in the national political entities like the national parliament, the                   
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           wars
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                 army became the important instrument for creating a new national model of integration
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laid the foundations for a national war with France, 1870-71
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this war was                 
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Prussia spanked the French
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it was a deeply                        war for the French
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put the French national identities into another one of its                crises
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emboldened the idea that the Prussian military could pull the German nation together
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a decisive moment of unification for the new German nation
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after 1871, Germany began to consolidate more and more led but Bismarck
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first Chancellor Bismarck
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power radiating out to a unified Germany from Berlin
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the system of          and Blood
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iron = exemplified the toughness and                      of the new nation
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blood =                   
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unification of Germany altered the power balance of Europe
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created a new model of territorial                inside the heart of Europe
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with much more lethal potential
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Germany and Japan almost like echoes of each other
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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
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political, military, and economic                       
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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:

politico, n. a politician whose conduct is guided by considerations of policy rather than principle ⇒ "Otto von Bismarck, a shrewd and calculating politico who was the strong man of the strongest, single regimes of the German confederation of states, Prussia, was able to promote the idea of a Kaiser, an imperial ruler who would issue his dominion over all of German-speaking peoples from a capital, a national capital, in Berlin."

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."
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