UNIFICATION OF DEUTCHLAND

By luke.schaper
  • Napoleon made changes to German teritorries

    Napoleon made changes to German teritorries

  • Zolverein

    Prussian created economic union destroyed terrif barriers between
    the German states.

  • A meeting held in Frankfurt assembly, asked for German national-

    unity
  • Otto von Bismarck

    Otto von Bismarck

    Announced Chancellor by king William I

  • Bismarcks first minuever: to form an alliance with Austria

  • Austro Prussian War

    Prussia went to war with AUstria, it only lasted 7 weeks with Prussia winning the war.

  • Franco Prussian war

    The war with France Napoleon III surrendered within a few weeks

  • The birth of the second Reich (or empire)

    Constitution crafted by Bismarck and it set up the legislature. Two houses: Bundesrat and the Reichstag

  • Bismarck for the win

    Formed the Three Emperors' League (Dreikaiserbund) with Russia and Austria-Hungary. But rivalry in the Balkans provoked the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, and Bismarck had to mediate at the Congress of Berlin in 1878, successfully maintaining the peace.