POL 271 Lecture 38: 12/2/16 World War I CONT...

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Otto von bismarck is largely credited with unifying the german states. Prussia was the most powerful of all the germanic states. Bismarck believed successfully defeating france would bring prestige to germany and solidifying unification. After the germans won in 1871 against france, they made a peace that angered and humiliated the french. +the germans seized alsace and lorraine from the french. The germans won the franco-prussian war because they struck quickly and went on the offensive first. The french wanted offensive weapons, light artillery and other new things to win their next war. Plan #17 was the french plan to fight germany. The germans weren"t stupid so bismarck had germany industrialize rapidly and made allies as a deterrent to french aggression. The league of three emperors was an alliance between russia, the austro-hungarian empires and germany made in 1878. +bismarck gave the austro-hungarian empire a defense pact as well.

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