The Unification of Germany
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- WELCOME
- Hello, I am Anirudh, your host and I will be narrating to you the history of the UNIFICATION OF GERMANY.
- REASONS FOR THE UNIFICATION
- 1804 Francis I of Austria declared the new Austrian Empire as a reaction to Napoleon Bonaparte's proclamation of the First French Empire in 1804.
- 1806As a result of the War of the Third Coalition, Napoleon I annexed some territories East of the Rhine, replaced the holy Roman Empire with the Confederation of the Rhine as a French client-state and in the following year Prussia lost half of its territory following the War of the Fourth Coalition.
- PRUSSIA LOSES TERRITPRY
- 1815
- After the defeat of Napoleon ,the Congress of Vienna reinstated the Germanic states into the German Confederation under the leadership of the Austrian Empire.
- 1834
- The Prussian-led custom union evolved into the Zollverein that included almost all Confederation states except the Austrian Empire.
- MISSION ACOMPLISHED
- On the bitterly morning of 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 the unheated hall of mirrors in the palace of Versailles to proclaim the new German empire headed by Kaiser William I of Prussia.
- 1861–62: King Wilhelm I became King of Prussia and he appointed Otto von Bismarck on 23September 1862,MinisterPresident and Foreign Minister ,who favoured a 'blood-and-iron' policy to create a united Germany under theleadership of Prussia.
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