1. HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2014
Lecture Six: Nationalism and the Drive for Unification

2. Grossdeutsch/Kleindeutsch after 1850
Middle Class Nationalism Continued
Austria after Metternich
Rise of Otto von Bismarck
Prussian Conservatism

3. 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

4. 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

5. The Habsburg Monarchy after 1866
The Ausgleich of 1867
Nature of the Dual Monarchy
German-Austrian Alliance
Austria’s Continuing Nationalism Problem