Summary of German unification
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Summary of German unification. We all know that until the mid / late SXIX, Germany was a conglomerate of different states (39 states to be exact) that made up the Germanic confederation. It was not a state, it was not a nation in itself. Within these 39 states, Prussia stood out. It was perhaps the most powerful and the one that most imposed for the German unification. Going to war, as we shall see, with Denmark, Austria and France. Prussia had an autocratic and militaristic government that in the end was the one that prevailed throughout Germany once it was unified.
The great promoters of this unifying process were, on the one hand, William I of Prussia (the King of Prussia), Otto Von Bismark (Chancellor of William I of Prussia) and General Moltke, as the chief of the Prussian military staff. Let's see the steps that areThey continued for German unification. First, in 1864, Prussia allying with Austria, declared war on Denmark (winning the war) and this is how the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein were annexed. In 1866, getting France to remain neutral and allying with Piemonte (with King Victor Manuel II of Savoy), he managed to defeat Austria and recovered, annexed, the kingdom of Hanover. Finally, in 1871, he declared war on France (the well-known Franco-Prussian war), Prussia invaded France and reached Paris. Through the Treaty of Frankfurt, which France declared defeated, France gave (to what was already Germany), Alsace and Lorraine.
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