HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Austro-Hungarian Compromise Of 1867, Classic Case, Magyarization
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A contrived misunderstanding, masterminded by bismarck, designed to furnish a pretext for igniting war between prussia and france. Becomes the spark for rallying the (still un-united) german states and causing france to declare war. July 1870 prussian sent to napoleon iii, bismarck edited to make it seem like it was insulting. Unification of italy and germany had failed in the hands of liberals and radicals in 1848 and 1849. In unifying germany, bismarck north germany constitution universal male suffrage? so the conservatives won. Nationalism became a force of conservative nation-building. Workers migrated to paris in search of jobs, population doubled (1850s-1860s, under 1 million) Fra(cid:374)(cid:272)e"s foreig(cid:374) poli(cid:272)y tried to re(cid:272)apture the glory of napoleo(cid:374) Paris was rebuilt, transformed into the city of lights: war of italian unification, suez canal, mexico (tried to control it, disasterous, all came crashing down in defeat in franco-prussian war. Russian empire vowed to protect christian populations from ottoman empire.