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Napoleon invades germany
At first Napoleon was welcomed in what is now Germany. Some people looked at him as a foreign invade. those people were right because he soon went in to war with germany and won and conquered them. -
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Congress of Vienna
The congress of Vienna came to be when Napoleon lost power of France. There goal was to fix everything that Napoleon had ruined or changed. This meant putting back the monarchies of the places that had them before and restoring the bariers of the countrys. -
Otto Von Bismarck birth
Otto Von Bismarck was born in Schonhausen, Germany. -
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Zollverein
The Zollverein dissolved barriers between German speaking states. People offered the throne to Fredrick William IV. He rejected it because it was offered by the people. -
Frankfurt assembly demands unity
600 delegates met in the frankfurt trying to get a constitution. The assembly tried to get the king of Prussia Fredrick William IV by sending him a delegation. He denied it because he feared going to wae with Austria and Russia -
Fredrick William IV is offered throne
Fredrick William IV turns down the offer of being king of germany because the people of german asked him to be the king. He said he will not except a "crown from the gutter". he refused it because of his Romantic Aspirations. -
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Bismaeck become Prime minister
he was the prime minister of prussia. perserved peace in Europe for 2 decades. he fails to go above authoritarian proclivties. -
Bismarcks blood and iron speech
in the famous blood and iron speech bismarck claimed " the international policy of modern state is built on the willingness to fight. that was the blood part of the speech he also said " and the willing to spend vast amount of public treasure in creating giant armies". that was the iron part of the speech -
Bismarck declares war on Denmarck
he went to war with denmarck to add more territory to prussia -
House of Krupp
it was primarly responsible for making ammunition for the empire. -
Bismarck declares war on austria
he wanted to unite germany for better resources and a bigger border and to take control of to have a bigger more powerful army. -
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Franco Prussian War
Bismarck had the southern part of germany to war with him. when prussia and germany won that was when the German unification started to end. -
Economic devolpment
the ecomomy boomed do to the the nationalisation of the railroads and the opening of trade. -
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Bismarck becomes chancellor
he was the first chancellor of the german empire. mostly focused on maintaing strengthening the power of the german empire. he decided to isolate France to prevent war. -
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William I of prussia becomes emporer
under his leadership along with minister president Bismarck they achieved the unification of Germany and the start of the german empire. -
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Second Reich is created
A period of unificaion that reached its height in the Franco-Prussian and ended in germanys defeat in world war I. -
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Population Growth
the population went from in 1971 24.69 million to 40.17 million in 1914. -
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campaign agains the church (kulturekampf)
Bismarcks atemp to reduce the political and social influence of the catholic church. -
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Constitution drafted by Bismarck
the constitution was a treaty for North Germany and the 4 southern germanic states to add them to the constitution -
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campaign against the socialist
this was a series of legislation ment to curb the strength of the social democratic party. -
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william II becomes kaiser
he was the last german empoer and king of prussia. -
Bismarck resigns
his resignation was due to constant conflicts with William II.
