Unification of Germany
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- Hello everyone my name is Pulkit Singh and today we will be talking about German Unification!
- In the 1860s, Otto von Bismarck, then Minister President of Prussia, provoked three short, decisive wars against Denmark, Austria, and France, aligning the smaller German states behind Prussia in its defeat of France.
- With all this territory now in Prussian control and its borders secure, Bismarck declared the German Empire in 1871, crowning the King of Prussia, William I, as emperor of Germany.
- The German unification affected the rest of Europe by causing a blow to liberalism, it changed the balance of power forever and created bitter resentment due to the way Germany was united, it brought two more competitive powers to European politics, and France's and Austria's weaknesses were revealed.
- On 18 January 1871,an assembly comprising the princes of the German states, representatives of the army,important Prussian ministers including the chief minister Otto von Bismarck gathered in Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles to proclaim the new German Empire headed by Kaiser William I of Prussia.
- Today I proclaim my new german empire headed by william I
- The nation-building process in Germany had demonstrated the dominance of Prussian state power. The new state placed a strong emphasis on modernising the currency, banking, legal and judicial systems in Germany. Prussian measures and practices often became a model for the rest of Germany
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