14. Credits
Slide Source Slide
1 Müller-Baden, Emanuel 8 1834customstarrifs.jpg
2 Historic World Atlas 9 Greene County Photography
Club
3 Redfin.com 10 Müller-Baden, Emanuel
4 Jacques-Louis David, The Emperor Napoleon in
His Study at the Tuileries, 1812, National Gallery
of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection
11 Leo von Elliott
5 First French Empire (1804-
1815).png
12 German Federal Archive
6 Robert Alexander Hillingford 13 IEG-Maps project
7 IEG-Maps project
Editor's Notes
Over 300 separate countries that spoke german
Pre 1871
Had little army
German nationalism grew
Battle of Waterloo
Vienna Congress
Prussia Blue
Austria Yellow
Austria had too much power
Many states had no representation
Trade agreement
Began in 1818
Started with Prussia and Hohenzollern
30 years most other states joined
Roads and rail improved
Roads and rail improved
Siamese Twins
Changed Everything
Vormarz = before march March 1848
Liberalism gained momentum
1832 Hambach started as county fair
Over 30,000
Became a march to hambach castle where many nationalist orators spoke
Everyone had different ideas of how it should be done
Revolutions of 1848 and Frankfurt Parliament
Frankfurt parliament tried to draft a constitution and appointed Frederick Wilhelm IV as Kaiser, he rejected the title
Partial Failure, many issues were solved but did not achieve unification
Realpolitik
Prussia becoming major german power
Bismarck Became Minister president of prussia
Prussia in Red
Austria Blue
Light blue what Prussia Gained
Austro-Prussian War
Proved Prussia’s dominance
Bismarck created a political state where if any german territory was attacked they would all have to defend them
Franco-Prussian War
A telegram to france from Wilhelm was modified by Bismarck
Made it much more aggressive
France attacked prussia
Thought rest of germany would turn on prussia
They didn’t
Germany captured paris and decimated the french army
Wilhelm was declared emperor in the Hall of Mirrors January 18, 1871
Treaty of Versailles formally ended the war and
