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Late 1800s, Germany raised tariffs of the new German empire were determined to maintain economic strength as well as military power.
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1807-1812, Napoleon made important territoral changes in German-speaking lands.
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1890s, Germans had health and accident insurance as well as old-age insurance to provide retirement benefits.
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William II shocked Europe by asking the dominating Bismarck to resign.
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Prussia created an economic union called the Zollverein.
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Liberals meet in the Frankfurt Assembly agian to demand German political unity.
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1850-1860 Germans had founded large compaines and built many railroads.
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King William I made Bismarck prime minister, chancellor.
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Bismarck invented an excuse to attack Austria.
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A growing rivalry between the two nation led to the Franco-Prussian War
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1870s, German Marxists had organized the Social Democratic party, which called for parliamentary democrancy and laws to improve conditions for the working class.
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German nationalists celebrated the birth of the Second Reich, or empire.
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German princes gathered in the glittering Hall of Mirrors at the French palace of Versailles.
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1871-1914 the business tycoon August Thyssen built a small steel factory of 70 workers into a giant empire with 50,000 employees,
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German government promoted economic development, issuing a single currency for Germany and reorganizing the banking system.
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William II succeeded his grandfather as kaier.
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Kaiser William II shocked Europe by asking the dominating Bismarck to resign.
