German Unification

Accept Realpolitik (real politics) = the right of the country to pursue its own interest through all means including war

"The main problem of the day will be solved by blood and iron, not by a speech or a majority vote."

"The fewer people know how sausages and laws are made, the better the night's sleep."

With a change in the political issue and the letter by Bismarck, France announced a war against the German Federation.

Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck did the following German reunification attempt and this attempt succeeded. Bismarck is a supporter of "small" German, not to mention experts in true political games. Unification of Germany is accomplished through the power of Prussia and is done from top to bottom. In other words, it is not organic movement fully supported and popularized by popular classes, it is a product of Prussian royal policies. The Second German Unification War was the 1866 Prussian War, which solved the "small" German and "big" German problems. This short-lived war (a brief battle of just a few weeks) confronted Prussia and its allies with Austria and other German countries. Prussia acquired several German countries that support Austria (such as Hannover and Nassau) and directly consolidated them. In loose acts, Prussia also acknowledged maintaining independence among Austrian larger allies like Baden and Bavaria.

The third and last act of German unification was the France-Prussian War of 1870-1871, carefully planned by Bismarck to attract the alliance between the West Germany State and the North German Federation. With the failure of France, the German Empire was founded in the French Versailles Palace in January 1871. In the future, foreign policy of the German empire was formulated in Berlin, Caesar in Germany (also Prussian King) also acknowledged diplomatic ambassador. When the United States declared war with the German empire in 1917, the relationship between the two countries was blocked.

From the French Revolution to the German history of the First World War. The role of Metternich, the rise of German nationalism, the collapse of German liberalism, the problem of unification of Germany, the era of the German empire, and the cause of the First World War will be the focus of emphasis. Start with the invasion from ancient Slavic settlements, establish the Romanov dynasty in the 17th century and explore the socio-economic, political and cultural foundations of medieval Russia. The main topics include the influence of foreign invasions (such as Mongolia), the influence of the Byzantine empire, the rise of Moscow, and the internal dynamics of Moscow society.