Germany - Franco-Prussian War, Unification, Empire: The Seven Weeks’ War, by creating the North German Confederation, a powerful new state in the heart of central Europe, abruptly altered the system of international relations on the Continent. Every gov
(Placename) a city in S central Germany, in Bavaria on the River Danube: oil-refining. Pop: 119 528 (2003 est) Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 ...
After the franco-prussian war, Prussia Prime Minister Bismarck worried France retaliates, therefore he adopts forms an alliance the policy, surrounds France.He causes Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia originally forms “three emperor unions”, but afterwards Russia in 1878 Berlin conf...
Prussia to unify Germany and France compete for continental hegemony, in 1870-1871 and France the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. This war with France defeated, Prussian victory, established German Empire ended. Legal popularization and the Armistice Treaty of extremely demanding, and some prov...
(Placename) a country in central Europe: in the Middle Ages the centre of the Holy Roman Empire; dissolved into numerous principalities; united under the leadership of Prussia in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War; became a republic with reduced size in 1919 after being defeated in World War...
After the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the German 7、Empire was proclaimed in 1871 in Versailles, uniting all scattered parts of Germany. 拿破仑一世战争失败后,欧洲各国于1814召开维也纳会议,并建立由39个主权邦组成的松散联盟德意志邦联。 法国于普法战争失利后,威廉一世在凡尔赛宫加冕为...
Otto Pflanze, Bismarck and the Development of Germany, 2nd ed., 3 vol. (1990), portrays the architect of the new Germany and his impact on the European balance of power. An excellent work on the Franco-Prussian war is Michael Howard, The Franco-Prussian War: The German Invasion of France...
In the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, Prussia triumphed over its rival, and Austria was excluded from the newly created North German Confederation. As a result of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71 Bismarck attained his goal: William I of Prussia was proclaimed German emperor by the assembled...
The Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) inflicting a crushing and humiliated defeat on France, ended the reign of the Emperor Napoleon III, and then provided the leverage for the unification of Germany into a new German Empire headed by Prussia itself. Wilhelm I, without even a nod to the Pope...
During the Franco-German War, when the navy of Germany was much less powerful than that of France, Germany made considerable use of the Scillies as a neutral port for the convenience of vessels making the Channel; and a time may easily come when a naval base here would ...— The ...