Sunday, December 13, 2009

Unit 4




Nationalism is a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country. Nationalism emerged in Germany in the early 1800s. As Germany moved through and concurred more nations nationalism spread more and more. Once reaching Europe nationalism had a great effect on them. Many countries where reborn due to the spreading of nationalism through Europe.

I believe that my group did well in trying to convey the major points in section 2. We talked about how Bismark had foreign policy goals, he wanted to keep Francs week while building strong links between Austria and Russia, and he was called the iron chancellor for the ruthless methods he used to achieve unification. We also discussed how Bismark led Germany to becoming one of the most powerful nations. However we not talk about how Bismark did not like the catholic church and lunched the kulturkampf, or battle for civilization, to make the catholics put loyalty to the state above allegiance to the church and it backfired on him as much as we should have.

I decided to compare and contrast section 1 with my groups section, section 2. I chose these two sections because they are most closely related to each other. They both talk about Bismark, and some of his successes and some of his down falls. Although they are very much alike their are a couple big differences, like section 1 talks about how Bismark came to be and how he starts out as King William I's chancellor, or prime minister, in 1862. It talks about Bismark first strengthening Prussian army and forming an alliance with Austria and then taking control of other northern German states. Where as section focuses more on Bismark's battles, his victories and loses, and how German came together.

Nationalism is a good ideology to have. It is a good thing to have people come together and support each other in the things that they believe in most. When people come together as one it makes that nation,country,city, or what ever it may be stronger and harder to break. In order for nationalism to be useful for global societies it would have to be reinvented in no real different way. Nationalism does not need to be reinvented as anything else because all a society needs is for its people to be united as one.

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