What was Prussia's motivation for war with France in 1870?

France & Prussia the Prussias (Germans) won, notably by winning battles at Metz & Sedan. 1870 1871 Read More

France and prussia went to war in 1870 Read More

France lost to the Prussians. Read More

Germany (Prussia) and France declared war on each other in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871. Read More

hoped that war against a common enemy would unite Germans. Read More

stir up nationalist sentiment in southern Germany :) Read More

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It was built as an 'Act of National Repentance' after France declared, fought and lost the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, and it was finished in 1919, when the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, taken into Germany in 1870, were returned to France. Read More

There was tension since the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. Read More

hoped that war against a common enemy would unite Germans Read More

It was built as an 'Act of National Repentance' after France declared, fought and lost the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, and it was finished in 1919, when the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, taken into Germany in 1870, were returned to France. Read More

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It was built as an 'Act of National Repentance' after France declared, fought and lost the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, and it was finished in 1919, when the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, taken into Germany in 1870, were returned to France. Read More

The war of 1870 was the Franco-Prussian war. Read More

The Franco-Prussian War or the Franco-German War is sometimes referred to in France at the 1870 War. It was a conflict between the second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation. The war lasted from July 19, 1870 to May 10, 1871. Read More

They didn't actually take it during the first world war. They captured it just after the Franco-Prussian war in 1870. Read More

Prior to World War I, only the United Kingdom and France were democracies. Read More

France hoped to regain the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine in WWI, and for revenge on Germany for the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, which was when they lost those two provinces to Germany. In 1870 France was alarmed by the potential power of the newly united German nation (before then there had been dozens of "Germanic States" where Germany is today on the map). So France picked a fight with Germany… Read More

In 1870, Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck released an altered version of the Ems Dispatch to the public, where the alteration made it sound as if Prussian King Wilhelm I had treated the French envoy in a demeaning fashion during the negotiations over the succession of the Spanish throne, which inflamed public opinion in France. This led to calls in the streets of France to declare war on Germany. Additionally, Emperor Napoleon III of France… Read More

As a result of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the peace treaty saw France lose territory. The treaty made France give up Alsace and part of Lorraine. Read More

The Franco Prussian War. There had been many years of tension between France and Prussia. In 1868 Queen Isabella of Spain was deposed and there was some argument about the Prussian candidate for the vacant throne. Insults were passed between the Prussian King and the French Ambassador. Public opinion was in uproar so that on the 19th July 1870 France declared war on Prussia only, although the other German states joined in. The German armies… Read More

the french had to girve up a lot of land Alsace & Lorraine. Read More

The Third Republic started in 1870. The Franco Prussian War ended in 1871. Napoleon III went into exile. In 1887, work began on the Eiffel Tower and it opened to the public in 1889. Read More

WWI first began in France, France and Germany hated each other. When Germany became an United Country in 1870-1871 , France went to war to try to stop it. Germany won and France wanted revenge. They started forming alliances and many countries got involved. It was a tragic moment. Read More

Relations between the two countries sorely declined. France and Germany would not get on good terms until the post-World War II period in European History. Read More

Because Russia and Fance signed a treaty in the 1870's forming an alliance, and when Russia backed Serbia against Germany and Austria-Hungary, France got involved. Read More

Because of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, when France was defeated, the German Empire proclaimed at Versailles, and two provinces (Alsace and Lorraine) transferred from France to Germany. And similarly this goes back to Napoleons defeat of Prussia in 1806... Read More

France and Germany. Germany annexed Alsace and Lorraine from France at the end of the 1870 war. Both provinces became French again in 1918. Read More

It was conquered by the German - willing to expand - in the 1870 war and became French again in 1918. Read More

As a result of the Franco=Prussian War of 1870. Bismarck was busy creating the German Empire, and tricked France into the war with the aim of securing those territories and the alliance of others. when ww1 started it was a terriotry Read More

Napoleon III was the nephew of Napoleon I. He became was elected President of France in 1848 and proclaimed himself Emperor. In the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71 he was taken prisoner on 2 September 1870 at Sedan (in N.E. France) together with about 100,000 men. The monarchy collapsed at once. He holds the unusual distinction of being both the first titular president and the last monarch of France. Read More

Two: The Seven Weeks War against Austria in 1866 and the Franco-Prussian war (against France) in 1870-1871. Read More

After the Franco-Prussia war of 19th July 1870 to 10th May 1871 France was defeated and her two importance provinces Alsace and Lorraine were seized from her so Bismarck wanted to isolate France so that she could not be able to wage a war against her to take back her loosed territories Read More

The French Emperor at that time was Napoleon III, who was Napoleon I Bonaparte's nephew. He was the first president of the French republic from 1848-1852 then proclaimed himself "Emperor of the French" in 1852. He reigned until the disastrous Franco-Prussian war in 1870. He became a Prussian prisonner of war in 1870, so theoretically there was no emperor in France between 1870 and 1871. After he was freed he exiled himself to England where… Read More

Apart from conflicts between Britain and France there were a few internal rebellions - 1837, 1870, 1885, and doubtless other local outbreaks. Read More

... would finally unite all the German states against a common enemy and lead to the foundation of the German Empire. Read More

France did not just want the region, they wanted it back. The German Empire was proclaimed in the Palace of Versailles after the Franco-Prussian war (1870-1871). After the First World War, France, among other Allied powers, made significant claims to German territory, the first of which was their old territory of Alsace-Lorraine. Read More

The Sacré-Coeur was built as an act of national expiation after the loss of Alsace and Lorraine disastrous war of 1870, and was completed in 1919 when the two provinces were restored to France. Read More

Yes: All centuries have had their share of conflicts in various parts of the world. The 1800s are notable for Napoleon, the Crimea, the US Civil War, the war of 1870/71 Prussia vs France, the Zulu wars in Africa, the Boer War. Read More

France had a huge military force needed to defend against the German might. The defeat of 1870/71 had grieviously wounded France. (Albeit this was against Prussia) The Alliance of France & Russia (as well as Britain, but to a lesser extent) was crucial to the Western Powers. Read More

1. "Home-field" advantage 2. Had more motivation to fight and win. 3. Britain was also embroiled in a war with France Read More

Franco-Prussian War. Read More

One thing that happened between 1800 and 1870 was the Civil War which helped to end slavery. There was also the war of 1812. Read More

The assumption made in the question is not accurate. The Germans annexed Alsace and Lorraine from France in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, mainly for strategic reasons and the area was heavily German-speaking. They did not take it during WW1, however. France annexed the territory after WW1. Read More

The Second Empire ended with the swift and catastrophic defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. The war was engineered by Bismarck with the idea that Germany would be united.This included the capture by the Prussians of the Napoleon III. Then the proclamation at Versailles of the German Empire, the loss to France of Alsace and Lorraine, and the proclamation of the Third Republic. Read More

You seem to have things mixed up a bit. Germany seized Alsace Lorraine from France in 1871 (Franco-Prussian war) and after that, obviously, France wanted it back. Not to mention that France also wanted to expand and therefor could benefit from the strategical piece of land. Hope this helps. ;) Read More

Relations between the two countries had been very bad indeed since the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. The terms imposed on France at the end of the war were harsh. Most of Alsace and Lorraine was annexed by Germany despite the fact that the inhabitants regarded themselves as French. In addition, France had to pay very high reparations. In France many wanted revenge. In the 1890s Bismarck said that the peace treaty he had imposed on… Read More

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