UNIFICATION

OF GERMANY
1815-1871
GERMAN REACTION TO
FRENCH DOMINATION
BECAME VERY NATIONALISTIC
GERMAN THINKERS HELD THAT

A. GERMANS WERE DIFFERENT

FROM WESTERN EUROPEANS
B. GERMANS WERE DESTINED TO
WORK OUT A PARTICULARLY
GERMAN WAY OF LIFE
C. GERMANS WERE DESTINED TO
WORK OUT A PARTICULARLY
GERMAN POLITICAL SYSTEM
 GERMANS FELT SUPERIOR TO THE
SLAVS
THE GERMAN PHILOSOPHER
HEGEL
A. GLORIFY GROUP ACTIVITIES
B. GLORIFY COLLECTIVIST
PRINCIPALS
C. GLORIFY THE STATE
D. GREAT INTEREST IN HISTORY
HISTORY-A VAST FORCE ALMOST
INDEPENDENT OF HUMAN
BEINGS(HEGEL AND MARX)
 OTTO VON BISMARCK

1815-1898
THE IRON
CHANCELLOR
FOREIGN
MINISTER 1862-
1890
REFLECTIONS
AND
REMINISCENCES
1898
 BISMARCK
JUNKER FROM BRANDENBURG
GRUFF MANNERS

NEVER LET WORLD OPINION STOP

WHAT HE BELIEVED WAS A
CORRECT ACTION
CRITICISM AND DENUNCIATION
NEVER BOTHERED HIM
OBSTINATE

ALL GERMANY WAS HIS

FATHERLAND
 DID NOT TRUST OR UNDERSTAND
WESTERN EUROPE
CONSIDERED PARLIAMENTARY
BODIES IGNORANT AND
IRRESPONSIBLE
CONSIDERED INDIVIDUAL
LIBERTY SELFISH AND
DISORDERLY
STRESSED DUTY, SERVICE,ORDER,
AND FEAR OF GOD
CHAINED SMOKED CIGARS AND
LOVED CHAMPAGNE
 FAMOUS QUOTES
NEVER BELIEVE ANYTHING
UNTIL IT HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY
DENIED
LAWS ARE LIKE SAUSAGES. IT IS
BETTER NOT TO SEE THEM BEING
MADE
PEOPLE NEVER LIE SO MUCH AS
BEFORE A HUNT, DURING A WAR,
OR BEFORE AN ELECTION
 REALPOLITIK
TERM COINED IN 1859 BY A
LIBERAL HISTORIAN ROCHAU TO
DESCRIBE BISMARCKS POLICY.
THE RUTHLESS PURSUIT OF SELF-
INTEREST WAS THE ONLY
REALISTIC OPTION FOR A GREAT
STATE
DO ONLY WHAT IS IN THE
INTEREST OF YOUR STATE AND
YOUR STATE ONLY
 BISMARCKS WARS
1863 THE DANISH WAR OVER
HOLSTEIN-SCHLESWIG
1866 THE SEVEN WEEKS WAR WITH
AUSTRIA
1870 THE FRANCO PRUSSIAN WAR
WITH FRANCE
DANISH WAR
1863-1864
START
DANISH WAR
1863-1964
THE END
RESULTS OF DANISH WAR
PRUSSIA LOOKED LIKE THE
PROTECTOR OF GERMAN
TERRITORY
HOLSTEIN-SCHLESWIG
RECLAIMED
ISOLATED AUSTRIA

BISMARCK IMPRESSED THE

GERMANS BY REFORMING THE
GERMAN CONFEDERATION
MAKING HIM LOOK MORE
DEMOCRATIC
 BISMARCKS WARS

1866
THE SEVEN WEEKS
WAR WITH AUSTRIA
SEVEN WEEKS WAR
1866
THE START
SEVEN WEEKS WAR
1866
THE END
RESULT OF THE SEVEN
WEEKS WAR
AUSTRIA WAS HUMILIATED
PRUSSIA ANNEXED

1.HOLSTEIN-SCHLESWIG
2.HANOVER
3.NASSAU
4.HESSE-CASSEL
5.FRANKFURT
ITALY ANNEXED VENETIA
 PRUSSIAN POLITICAL
REFORM
CREATION OF THE NORTH GERMAN
CONFEDERATION PRUSSIA AND 21
OTHER STATES
CONSTITUTION STATED

1.KING OF PRUSSIA THE HEAD

2.PARLIAMENT OF 2 CHAMBERS
A. UPPER=REPRESENTED THE STATES
B. LOWER(REICHSTAG) PEOPLE
ELECTED WITH UNIVERSAL MALE
SUFFERAGE
 BISMARCKS WARS

1870
THE FRANCO
PRUSSIAN WAR WITH
FRANCE
 REASONS FOR THE
FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR
NAPOLEON III BELIEEVD A WAR
WITH PRUSSIA, IF SUCCESSFUL,
WOULD RESTORE THE PUBLIC
APPROVAL OF HIS GOVERNMENT

BISMARCK BELIEVED A WAR WITH

FRANCE WOULD CAUSE THE
SOUTH GERMAN STATES TO JOIN
PRUSSIA
 CAUSE
THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT
INVITED LEOPOLD(KING OF
PRUSSIAS COUSIN) TO BE THE
CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCH OF
SPAIN
FRANCE DEMANDED THAT HE
WITHDRAW HIS NAME AND THEN
LATER DEMANDED THAT AT NOT
TIME WOULD A HOHENZOLLERN
BECOME KING OF SPAIN
EMS TELEGRAM
 FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR
JULY 15, 1870 WAR DECLARED BY
FRANCE
SEPT.1 1870 BATTLE OF SEDAN
NAPOLEON III CAPTURED FRENCH
SURRENDER
SEPT 20 BEGINNING OF SIEGE OF
PARIS
JAN.18 1871 PARIS SURRENDERS

MAY 10,1871 TREATY OF

VERSAILLES(FRANKFURT) SIGNED
FRANCO-PRUSSIAN
WAR 1870
START
FRANCO-PRUSSIAN
WAR 1870
THE END
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
TREATY OF FRANKFURT
KING OF PRUSSIA RECEIVED THE
HEREDITARY TITLE OF GERMAN
EMPEROR
NAPOLEON III REMOVED AND
FRANCE REQUIRED TO ELECT A
REPUBLIC CONSTITUTENT
ASSEMBLY BY UNIVERSAL MALE
SUFFERAGE
 FRANCE TO PAY WAR
REPARATIONS OF 5 BILLION GOLD
FRANCS
GERMANY TO OCCUPY PARTS OF
FRANCE FOR A FEW YEARS
FRANCE LOOSES THE PROVINCES
OF ALSACE AND LORRAINE
 RESULTS OF THE
CONSOLIDATION OF
GERMANY
GERMANY NOW THE STRONGEST
STATE ON THE CONTINENT OF
EUROPE
UNITED ALL GERMAN STATES

GERMAN EMPIRE TOOK THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE NORTH
GERMAN CONFEDERATION
GERMANY NOW A MAJOR WORLD
POWER
EUROPE
1873