The nullification crisis was a conflict between the U.S. state of South Carolina and the federal government of the United States in 1832–33. Calhoun, who opposed the federal imposition of the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 and argued that the U.S. Constitution gave states the right to block the enforcement of a federal law.
By the early 1900s, Germany had worsening relations with all of the following except "Austria-Hungary", since a wave of nationalism in Germany gave them the impression that Austria-Hungary was really a part of Germany anyway.