Nationalism in Nineteenth Century Germany

Questions:

1. Due to the rise in newspaper production, as well as the increase in literacy across Europe, military affairs were weighed in on severely by the public’s opinion. The idea of militarism caused all public issues to be put in to the hands of the government, which was intertwined with the peoples. Therefore, the public’s opinion had great influence on military affairs.

2. Industrialization during the time had a huge impact on the nature of warfare. It produced many technological developments in the areas of communication and arms which created a more organized and more affective army. It also caused places to become more, “urbanized” which led to the increase of literacy and more people reading about military affairs in the newspapers. This caused a fear of bad conduct in war to be published and scare or anger the general population. Therefore, the nature of warfare was more organized and more deadly, yet had a fear of being ashamed by the public.