USViking
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Kathianne said:Ok. What event allowed Bismarck to finagle a way to entice France to declare war in 1870 leading to German Unification?
The Ems telegram.
Bismarck did some creative editing on a message
from the King of Prussia describing an interview
the King had with the French Ambassador.
Bismarck made it look as though the Ambassador
had insulted the King.
Popular passions were inflamed, and war ensued.
Question:
In 1919 Russia actually conducted Democratic elections.
Although the bolsheviks were slaughtered at the ballot box,
they held a preponderance of guns and bayonnets, and were
able to dismiss the elected delegates when the delegates arrived
to assume power.
It was on this occasion that this bolshevik leader used
the famous phrase "trash can of history" to describe the fate of the delegates.