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= Germany: nationalism =

Concept
Realpolitik. There were some tension between the Northern Protestant and Southern Catholics and there was an opposition of Austria. Germany wanted to remove the Austrians and thus provoked them. This started the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. Prussia won and insisted that Austria were to withdraw from German political affairs which created a new Confederation of Northern German Sates.

Leader
Otto von Bismarck was the chancellor and trusted friend of Prussian King William I. He wanted to unite the German people rather than having them split into 16 kingdoms and city-states left by the 1815 treaty of Vienna. Bismarck aimed to remove the Austrians from Germany and to defeat German's traditional enemy, France. He succeeded and put forward the Prussian king as emperor of Germany and soon became the powerful chancellor of Germany. Bismarck made new Germany intensely nationalistic.

Event
The event that made Germany united was the Franco- Prussian war that took place from 1870 to 1871. Bismarck's policy was to provoke France. He managed to deceive them to maneuver and made them the formal aggressor. The government was forced to join the Prussians as Germans to go against France. Napoleon III was abducted and forced to abdicate. New Germany stretched from Alsace to Warsaw and North Sea to the Alps and showed nationalism.

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