HIST 1115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Franco-Prussian War, Dreyfus Affair, Great Palace Of Constantinople
25 Aug 2016
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The great powers of wwi: the autocracies (part i: france. * republic (has no king) => overruled their king. * notion of revolution and the only republic city. => he led the revolution and ordered to execute all the nobles. * prussia and germany united to defeat france. * crowned germany"s king at france"s great palace in order to humiliate the defeat of france. * lost huge chunk of territory to germany. * france goal: to get back to germany. => invested in russia"s industrial and made russia one of the greatest & powerful military. * franco - prussian war 1870 => france lost. * dreyfus affair => political cover up that divided france for many years. => 1894, alfred dreyfus, a jewish artillery officer in the french army was convicted of treason. => he was innocent and conviction rested on a false documents. => separated the french but when germany threatened the.
