Outline


 * I. Events that promoted Germany Unity in Early 1800's **
 * German culture was in several small-medium sized statesknow as Prussia
 * Prussia was partially ruled under France, Denmark, and Austria
 * Prussians went by the same culture, language, religion, and customs of Germans
 * Napoleans (France) raided the Prussian land that was under their terrortories
 * This angered Germans and sparked the idea of unification with Prussia
 * German liberals started to demand a unified state
 * Created the German Confederation, a weak alliance between the German-speaking states


 * II. How economic unity helped about political unity **
 * Prussia made an economic union called zolverin
 * It dismantled tariff barriers between many german states
 * People of Prussia wanted to be under the same government as the Germans


 * III. Realpolitik and how Bismarck used it to his advantage **
 * Otto Von Bismarck was very powerful
 * Bismarck came to Prussia's high upper class- chancellor of King William I
 * Bismark believed in realpolitik
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Realpolitik are politics who base their government around a states needs
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">What Prussia needed was a war against the Napoleons to break away from France
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Used the policy of "blood and iron" to convince Prussians to use warfare to unify
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Even though the "Blood and iron" speech didn't necissarily work on the government, it did convince Prussians to join leading to a well-equipted strong army
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Bismark's idea of warfare pathed the way for German unity


 * <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">IV. Prussia declares war with Denmark and Austria **
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Prussians made an alliance with Austria to fight for them in Denmark
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">They both seized the provinces Schleswig and Holstein
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Austria got Holstein and Prussia got Schleswig
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Later Bismark turned around and attacked Austria and other northern states
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Prussians won
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Bismark made a dominant Prussian-led German Confederation over the Austrian-led one
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">He made peace with southern states, including Austria letting them stay independent
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Bismark went by his motive, " We had to avoid leaving behind any desire for revenge."


 * <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">V. France declares war on Prussia **
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">The Prussian victory angered Napoleon III and even more tension grew from the invasion 60 years before
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Napoleon III tried hard to avoid war
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">William I of Prussia released a telegram recalling the invasion of the Napoleons 60 years ago called the "Ems Dispatch"
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Bismarck's editing to the Ems Dispatch made it seem like King William I had insult ed the French
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">The angered French declared war on Prussia, as Bismark had hoped
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Prussia dominated at war so the French surrendered in their own war


 * <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">VI. Birth of the German Empire **
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Princes of southern German sates and the North German Confederation persuaded William I of Prussia to take the throne
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">In January of 1871 German nationlists celebrated the birth of the second empire (or second reich)
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">A constitution drafted by Bismarck created a 2 house legislature
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">The upper house (Bundersrat) was appointed by state rulers
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">The lower house (Reichstag) was elected by universal male sufferage
 * <span style="color: #ed1c1c; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">The Bundesrat could veto the decisions made by the Reichstag, so the real power remained the hands on the emporer or chancellor