Question

Briefly trace the process of Germany unification.

(OR)

Describe the unification of Germany

Answer 1

• Nationalist feeling wide spread among middle class Germans. 
• They tried to unite the different regions of the Germany in 1848. 
• But it was oppressed by the combined forces of the monarchy and the military. 
• Later Prussia took on the leadership for national unification.
• Its Chief Minister Otto von Bismarck, was the architect of this process. 
• He carried out this with the help of the Prussian army and bureaucracy. 
• He waged three wars in seven years. 

a) War with Denmark 

b) Austro – Prussian war 

c) Franco – Prussian war 

• Unification of Germany was accomplished by 1871. 
• In January 1871, the Prussian king, William -1, was proclaimed German Emperor in a ceremony held at Versailles.