What European country did Prussia....?

Question

What European country did prussia have growth rivival with? What was a result of this rivalry?

Answer 1

Dear,

PRUSSIA.

LOCATION;

Former state in northern Germany, Originally it was a small territory on the shore of the Baltic Sea comprised the area later known as province pf East Prussia-lying roughly between the Vistula and Memel rivers and bounded by Poland on the south. Prussia grew until, at its point of maximum expansion in 1867, it covered almost the whole of northern Germany and contained approximately two-thirds of that nation's area and population. From Prussia's beginnings in the northern corner of the great north European plain, its process of expansion was westward across the great river (the Oder, Elbe, Weser, Ems, and Rhine) that cut through the lowlands north and west to the sea and south to and across the middle of Europe and along the Rhine. In the course of this expansion the early agricultural character of the territory came to be complemented by important industrial complexes of the Ruhr, the Rhineland, Silesia, and the province of Saxony. Thus the status of Prussia as a geographical unit has been entirely dependent upon its political history-so much so, in fact, that as a result of political changes since 1933 it no longer exists.

MONARCHY;

(!871-1918). Prussia was a federation in which the Prussian King was Emperor, the Prussian Prime Minister was Chancellor, and Prussia dominated the federal Council the upper Chamber of the Reichstag. The Empire was in effect an expanded Prussia. In the course of its development, however, the Empire developed a political life of its own.

RIVALRY;

Based on a democratically elected national parliament, it took an increasingly liberal direction and began to diverge from the pattern of Prussian politics, where limited suffrage produced ever more conservative results. To liberals and socialists, Prussia seemed the chief obstacle to the healthy growth of the German state, and when the revolution of 1918 created a German republic there was strong sentiment for the dissolution of Prussia.

GROWTH RIVIVAL;

Prussian democracy was ended in 1932, not from within but by German Chancellor von Papen's unconstitutional expulsion of the Braun government. This marked the demise of Prussia as an effective political unit, for the unitary state established by the Nazis in 1933 bypassed it, although it maintained a nominal existence with Hermann Goering as its titular Prime Minister. Eventhis shadow of the former great state disappeared with the collapse of the Nazi regime in 1945, when Prussian territories divided between the Soviet Union, Poland, and the occupation zones of Germany proper. The death of Prussia was conformed by 1947 by the formal resolution of the Allied Control Council that pronounced its "dissolution".

(LEONARD KRIEGER, Yale University)

Answer 2

outdoors of Germany i think of you would be limited to Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg. maximum Poles (can't answer for Czechs) could surely no longer desire to speak in German! I pass to family contributors (by marriage) 3 or 4 circumstances a 365 days in Poland and not often all people speaks German. youngsters talk English as a 2nd language, old people talk Russian as a 2nd language.

Answer 3

France. Couple of wars.

Answer 4

Austria... im not too sure... ??