Prussia

The first war was that of aggression led by Frederick the Great to take away Silesia from Austria and was part of the War of Austrian Succession (1740-48) The second war was fought by Maria Theresa to retake Silesia from Prussia and was part of a world war called The Seven Years War (1756-63).

In the late 1800s, Prussia led the movement within German nation states to make Germany one unified nation. This movement achieved its goal in January of 1871.

The German liberals in Prussia wanted to enhance their empire and wanted to control the wealth of Prussia. Moreover, they wanted to rule Prussia due to strategic location.

Tuchola (German: Tuchel) is a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland.

Britain and Prussia probably dominated the German Confederation.

Montesquie suggested that government should have checks and balances. He thought it was especially important that government concentrated seperatley on each branch- executive, judicial, and legistlative. Today, we have the idea of checks and balances thanks to the Enlightenment thinker, Montesquie.

Province of East Prussia was created in 1773.

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prussia invaded France in 1870

The Silesian Wars helped Prussia to unite Germany because their victory prevented the invasion of other countries. During the Napoleonic wars Prussia was able to recapture previously owned areas of Europe. Also after the Franco-Prussian war, Prussia was able to untie Germany because of its victory in war.

Prussia originated as the Teutonic Knights.

Prussia and Sparta were similar in the extend that both were powerful in terms of military, Sparta using elite infantry to aid them in battles, and Prussia using strong tactics to win theirs.

Frederick William turned Prussia into a militaristic state. =)

After the Battle of Leipzig of Oct. 16-19, 1813, the Austrian Army of Field Marshal Prince Charles Philip of Schwarzenberg invaded the French Region of Alsace in January 1814 heading towards Strasbourg and the Prussian Army, under Field Marshal Gebhardt von Blucher invaded that of Lorraine in the same January 1814.

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By the time of WWI Prussia no longer existed as an independent nation. Prussia was one of the largest of the "Germanic States" which were unified into a single nation in the 1860s. Prussia was also the most warlike of the several hundred Germanic city-states of varying sizes.

But in some ways the Prussians were in fact very much involved in WWI. The German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, was of the Hohenzollern Dynasty. This was the ruling family of Prussia, which had become, with German unification, the ruling family of all Germany.

He preferred to restrict the officer corps to the nobility (the Junkers).

however, when one of his many wars finally made it impossible for him to replenish the losses to the officers corps without allowing men from the middle class in, he took the obvious pragmatic step and allowed middle class aspirants in.

once peace was declared, however, he forced most of those middle class officers out of the army.

the pattern makes it clear what his preferences were.

He had demanded Maria Theresa to cede the territory to Prussia in exchange for the recognition of the Pragmatic Sanction that gave Maria Theresa control of the Hapsburg dominions. When she refused, he invade Silesia.

No, but a Frenchman and a German man did.

HE WAS SENT BACK TO THE SOVIET UNION AND STAYED THERE FOR SEVERAL YEARS BEING FORCED TO HELP REBUILD THE DEVASTATED CITIES THAT THE GERMANS HAD DESTROYED. LIVING CONDITIONS WERE AWFUL FOR THE SOVIETS WERE ESPECIALLY BRUTAL AND VENGEFUL TOWARDS THE GERMANS FOR THE BRUTALITY SHOWN BY THE NAZIS INSIDE THEIR COUNTRY. OVER TWO MILLION GERMANS THAT WERE CAPTURED SUFFERED MALNUTRION, DISEASE AND TORTURE AND NEVER SAW GERMANY AGAIN INCLUDING ONE OF MY UNCLES!