German unification
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- We should be united as a confederation that we shall call the bund. It will be very helpful to use all...
- Explanion:Metternich was Austias foreign minister and he came up with the idea of creating a bund. Which was a confederation of german states under Austria in June of 1815. This is influential to the eventual unification of Germany after it starts conflict with Austria and Prussia.
- We desperatey need to increase our collective German economics and boost growth. We as Prussia have decided to create the Zollverein where their is free trade to 18 of our great German States
- Explanation:The Zollverein was created by Prussia in 1834, that include 18 different German States excluding Austria to help economic growth of German States. By helping their economics it helped to Germany becoming unified and continued to grow tensions between Austria and Prussia.
- Bismarck became the prime minister of Prussia in September of 1862. He is a key part of the unification of Germany due to his statical practices and allowing Prussia to be a domanit force against Austria.
- I Otto von Bismarck am now the prime minister of Prussia and I am clever enough to get Prussia into great strategic positions.
- Yes we will defeat Denmark together and we will both gain from this
- We shall come together to defeat our common enemy. We will both get land from this Austria. *wink*
- Explanation:This is the Austro-Prussian war against Denmark which started in 1n 1864. It was over a dispute of the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein. So Austria and Prussia worked together to defeat Denmark. This is important because it set what was to be the Austro-Prussian war.
- It is now time for Prussia to got to war with Austria. I have been waiting and planning for this. We will defeat Austria and gain Schleswig-Holstein!
- ExplanationThe Austro-Prussian war began in 1866. It was heavily constructed by Bismarck. This war lasted for seven weeks and ended in Prussia's victory. This is important to German unification because it lead to the Treaty of Prague, which in turn also resulted in the north German confederation:
- We must now fight and defeat France. An external source of conflict wil aid in bringing Southern Germany and the north German confederation together. Resulting in complete unification
- Explanation:The Franco-Prussian war began in 1870. Bismarck wanted this conflict to bring Germany completely together. This ended up being what was needed for a full unification of Germany
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