How Did Bismarck Contribute To The Unification Of Germany

In 1871 Germany finally became a unified statehood. This was a long time coming for Germany because for so long they were just a cluster of twenty-five German speaking states, city-states, and duchies between France, Russia, and the north sea coast. When fighting for the right to finally be unified this brought fighting which was fueled by the rise in German nationalism in the early half of the 1800’s. Germany’s unification began with the uproar of 1848, when a series of revolutions came through Western Europe. There were many movements in Prussia, Bavaria, Baden and Saxony that all demanded modification and political transformation. One of the major wants is the unification of Germany. As the nationalist movement continued through Europe the big finally is when
Even though the emperor had complete control over ministers and government decisions. Bismarck was Germany’s Chancellor and Wilhelm let him do all of the work for Germany. He wanted to have this new Germany running strong and to avoid war. To complete the task of staying out of war Bismarck had to play a foreign policy chess game. This would be handling and manipulating diplomatic relationships between European powers. Bismarck wanted an alliance with the Austro-Hungary and wanted to keep good relations with Russia. But while he was doing all of this he was trying to isolate the progressively aggressive France. Although Bismarck but so much work into maintain Germany is work was pushed aside a bit when the crowing over the new Kaiser Wilhelm II. Wilhelm was confident and had many plans for Germany. After only two years Wilhelm took Bismarck’s title of chancellor away and this is when the Wilhelmine era started. In this era the Kaiser was more hands on with making policy with domestic and imperial. This era for Germany was more confident and assertive. But with this came fear that this could cause tensions and conflict in