Was Germany born out of blood and iron? Flashcards
What was Prussia?
A Germanic Kingdom responsible for unifying Germany
What was Austria
Another Germanic kingdom which was direct rival of Prussia
What was the treaty of vienna
A peace agreement created after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815
What was the German confederation?
An association of 39 predominately Germanic states connected through a shared language, culture and geography.
What was the Zollverin
The north German customs union formed by Prussia to rival Austria
What was the enlightenment?
An age of reason which challenged the accepted forms of power
The German Question
a popular question which asks how Germany could and should be unified.
“hungry forties”
the periods of extreme hunger in the 1840s in Europe
Frankfurt assembly
The assembly created buy the 1848 revolution which aimed to unify germany.
Junker
rich landowning militaristic men from Prussia
liberalism
belied in the liberty of the individual
sonderweg
a thesis that Germany followed a special path unlike any other European country used as an explanation for a nazi Germany.
the second reich
german was for the second time ever unified into a reich (empire) of germany countries
Kaiser
the german word for emperor
When was the treaty of Vienna
January 1815