POL207Y1 Lecture Notes - Willy Brandt, Angela Merkel, German Reunification
30 Nov 2012
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Germany: historical evolution, understand its post-war situation, analyze its political institutions, identify its place in europe and the world, analyze contemporary debates. From fragmentation to unification (1815-1817: like italy it has a late unification of commerce, only unified their territories around central party around late 17th century. Prussia military campaign started to begin to dominate all other territories. Political authority of king of prussia, by this means they gain a unification of. From weimer republic to the third reich (1913-1933) The alsace loraine moves back to france. By the end of first world war they forced a parliamentary democracy. After first world war it had a strong feeling of punishment: treaty versailles. Weimer republic didn"t have big roots or connect to people due to lack of tradition: finding loop holes to solve crisis after crisis, failed on itself because it was augmented by hitler to form something more authoritarian.
