HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Unification Of Germany, Great Power
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Napoleon was focused on abolishing the conditions the congress of. He was focused on the breaking of relationship between austria and england. Napoleon iii was aware of the need of international order to the fundamental protection of france. He wanted an international order that france would lead. He was aware that vienna system was disfunctual because of the failure to recognize upcoming powers especially in the eastern. He believed that the vienna system would not last. However after became of convert of the old system. He proposed a meeting between the great powers. Palmerstone said that they should leave these issues be because they didn"t have any time or energy to deal with them. Bismarck becomes a new prime minister of prussia. Bismarck believed that russia was at its ends as a great power if they would continue in the borders of vienna system. He argued that they had to fight to redraw borders.
