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The Unification of Germany by will a.k.a bo jangles
In 1861 William 1st became king of Prussia. The next year he appointe Otto von Bismack to head the prussia cabient. A conservative Junker politiician, Bismack bulit the prussian army into a powerful war machine. -
danish war
On the border between Denmark and Germany lay two small states the duchies of Schleswig's population included a mixture of Germans and Danes -
The seven week's war
As Prussian influence expaned, Bismack prepared for conflict with Austria. He first persuaded Napoleon 3rd of france to remain neutral, then declaring war prussia in 1866 over the ongoing Schleswig and Holstein dispute -
The Franco-Prussian War
To complete the unification of germany, Bismarck had to persuade the independent states in southern germany to join the North Germany Confederation. -
Formation of the German empire
For germany the treaty ending the franco-prussian War was not as important as an event that took place before its signing. On january 18, 1871, representatives of the allied German States met in the hall of mirrors at the Palace of versailles near Paris
