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German Chemical and electrical industries were setting the standard worldwide.
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Germany speaking people lived in a number of small and medium sized states.
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Napolean made important territorial changes in German speaking lands.
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Prussia created an economic union called Zollverein.
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Liberials meeting in the Frankfort assembaly again demanded German political unity.
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Nationalism rised in Germany intill 1866
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Large Companies boomed and railroads were built.
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King William I made Bismark Chancellor.
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Bismark gave the "Blood Iron Speech"
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Prussia forms an alliance with Austria.
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Bismark invented an excuse to attack Austria leadin to the Austro-Prussian War.
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Franco- Prussian War.
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in 1871 there was 41 million people,
in 1914 population was 67 million. -
August Thysen Built a small steel factory of 70 workers into a giant empire with 50,000 employees
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German Nationalist Celebrated birth of second Reich, or empire.
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House of Krupp boomed
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Germany grew from having 41 million people in 1871 to 67 million in 1941
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Germans defeated Naponleon III in Franco-Prussian War
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Singal currancy for Germany, banking system was made.
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William II succeeded his grandfather as Kaiser
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William II askes Bismark to resign.
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Germans had health and accident insurance as well as old-age insurance.
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Social Democratic party grew.
