Compare and contrast the foreign policy goals and achievements of Metternich (1815-1848) and Bismarck (1862-1890).
Thesis: Bismarck wanted to achieve control of Germany and was able to achieve his goals with forward-thinking and flexibility whereas Metternich crushed revolts and dominated the Congress of Vienna using intervention and conservatism.
Bismarck
Realpolitik
Moderate
Had goals but was flexible about how to get to them
Collected taxes and reorganized the army without permission of Parliament Danish War
Persuaded Austrians to join Prussia in the Danish War so he could later isolate them
Divided Schleswig and Holstein offered an opportunity to wage war with Austria
Wanted to exclude Austria from German affairs The Austro-Prussian War
Achieved agreement for Russia to remain neutral because Prussia helped
Promised Venetia to Italy
Promised Napoleon land in the Rhineland
Easy peace for defeated Austria
Unified Germany and coerced southern German states into signing and annexed some Franco-Prussian
Ems dispatch Goals
Austria excluded from German affairs
Control of all of Germany
Metternich
Legitimacy-restore legitimate monarchs to thrones
Strengthening Austria and Prussia to maintain balance
Enlarged Netherlands, Sardinia and Prussia to box in France
Contain revolution
Conservatism-state is a partnership, slow change
Principle of intervention
Right to send armies into countries to restore legitimate rulers
Supported revolution in Greece
Crushed revolts in Italy and Spain
Thesis: Bismarck wanted to achieve control of Germany and was able to achieve his goals with forward-thinking and flexibility whereas Metternich crushed revolts and dominated the Congress of Vienna using intervention and conservatism.
Bismarck
Realpolitik
Moderate
Had goals but was flexible about how to get to them
Collected taxes and reorganized the army without permission of Parliament
Danish War
Persuaded Austrians to join Prussia in the Danish War so he could later isolate them
Divided Schleswig and Holstein offered an opportunity to wage war with Austria
Wanted to exclude Austria from German affairs
The Austro-Prussian War
Achieved agreement for Russia to remain neutral because Prussia helped
Promised Venetia to Italy
Promised Napoleon land in the Rhineland
Easy peace for defeated Austria
Unified Germany and coerced southern German states into signing and annexed some
Franco-Prussian
Ems dispatch
Goals
Austria excluded from German affairs
Control of all of Germany
Metternich
Legitimacy-restore legitimate monarchs to thrones
Strengthening Austria and Prussia to maintain balance
Enlarged Netherlands, Sardinia and Prussia to box in France
Contain revolution
Conservatism-state is a partnership, slow change
Principle of intervention
Right to send armies into countries to restore legitimate rulers
Supported revolution in Greece
Crushed revolts in Italy and Spain