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Steel production company that later merged Thyssen AG to form ThyssenKrupp AG
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This campaign ended the War of the Sixth Coalition in Germany after Napoleon retreated from Russia
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The Congress of Vienna prevented Germany from unifying because the members wanted Europe exactly the way it was before Napoleon
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Otto Eduard Leopold was born this day in Schönhausen, Germany to Wilhelmine Luise Mencken and Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck
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The Zollverein was an economic union created by Prussia that dissolved tariff barriers between German states
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The Franfurt Assembly was the first freely elected parliament for Germany
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Germany offers Frederick William IV the throne of Germany
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Bismarck delivers his speech saying that the only way to get results is to fight, not get caught up in politics
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Bismarck says that he had orchestrated the conflict that started this war to evetually unify Germany
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Bismarck declares war on Austria to eventually unify Germany
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This war was between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation and resulted in German Victory
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He was the first German emperor after the Franco-Prussian War
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sometimes refered to as Bismarck's Imperial Constitution and declared that the empire was a confederation headed by the king of Prussia
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Otto von Bismarck becomes chancellor of the new Germany
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Made up of 25 different German states and was the new form of German government of unification
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The German population grew from 1871-1914
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This movement developed policies that reduced the power of the Roman-Catholic Church. The prime minister of Prussia, Otto von BIsmarck, enacted this campaign
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Bismarck hated socialists with a burning passion. He did everyhting in his power to exterminate them from the face of the earth
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William was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia. He also dismissed Otto von Bismarck from his position as chancellor
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Wilhelm II urged Bismarck to resign from his position as chancellor. Bismarck was 75 and died at the age of 83
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This development took away all custom barriers and declared the deutsche as the only currency of Germany.
