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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What were some of the key stages leading up to German Unification? What role did Bismarck play?
What were some of the consequences of Prussia’s domination of federal Germany?
Why did Bismarck attack the power of the Catholic Church in Germany? Could the Kulturcampf best be described as an essential separation between Church and State or as a domestic quarrel?
What are some of the reasons for Germany’s remarkable economic expansion in the late nineteenth century?
What social pressures were created by the changes sweeping through Germany, and what did the German government do to contain them? How did Germany’s reaction compare to that of France or Great Britain?
How did German art and literature reflect the stress put on German society by these rapid changes?
What led to Bismarck’s downfall?
In what realms was Germany’s competition with other European great powers particularly fateful?
To what extent can Germany be said to be to blame for the outbreak of World War I? Did Germany’s role in unleashing the war come about by design or by accident?
What was the Schlieffen Plan and what were its flaws? Did Germany have an alternative?
Why did Germany lose World War I?
What were the forces underlying the German Revolution of 1918? Should it be characterized as a breakdown, a revolution, or a civil war?
Why did Henry Kissinger describe the peace forged after the war as “a fragile compromise between American utopianism and European paranoia”?
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MICHAEL STÜRMER has been professor of history at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg since 1973 and is currently chief correspondent for Springer-Verlag in Berlin. He has been a visiting research fellow at Harvard, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Sorbonne, and the University of Toronto.
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