HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2014 Lecture Six: Nationalism and the Drive for Unification
Grossdeutsch/Kleindeutsch after 1850 Middle Class Nationalism Continued Austria after Metternich Rise of Otto von Bismarck Prussian Conservatism
Steps Towards Prussian-Led Unification Economics: Prussian Control of the Zollverein The Schleswig-Holstein Problem Austria Between Italy and Germany Prussian Military Modernization The Austro-Prussian War 1866
Unification: The Final Steps Territorial Settlement of 1866 Bismarck’s Uses of Nationalism “Prussia Conquers Germany” Bismarck vs. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte The Franco-Prussian War 1870 Territorial Settlement of 1871
The Habsburg Monarchy after 1866 The Ausgleich of 1867 Nature of the Dual Monarchy German-Austrian Alliance Austria’s Continuing Nationalism Problem