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House of Krupp
The Krupp industrial empire was one of Germany's wealthiest and most powerful corporations, and it contributed to the armaments used in several of its country's wars. -
Napoleon Invades Germany
During the War of the Second Coalition, the French Republic suffered from corruption and internal division under the Directory (five Directeurs holding executive power). -
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Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich -
Birth of Otto Von Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, known as Otto von Bismarck, was a Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs with his conservative policies from the 1860s to his dismissal in 1890 by Emperor Wilhelm II -
Zollverein
The Zollverein, or German Customs Union, was a coalition of German states formed to manage tariffs and economic policies within their territories. -
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Frederick Gets Offered the Throne
Reigned as King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861. Also known to as the "romanticist on the throne", he is best remembered for numerous buildings he had erected in Berlin and Potsdam. -
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Frankfurt Assembly Demands Unity
This was the first freely elected parliament of Germany. It was part of the "March Revolution." -
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William I Becomes Emporer
William I, German in full Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig born March 22, 1797, Berlin died March 9, 1888, Berlin. German emperor from 1871, as well as king of Prussia from 1861, a sovereign whose conscientiousness and self-restraint fitted him for collaboration with stronger statesmen in raising his monarchy and the house of Hohenzollern to predominance in Germany. -
Bismarck Becomes Prime Minister
He was appointed Prussian Prime Minister in 1862 and began almost immediately to change the reactionary dictionary of the Prussian government. Traditionally, nationalism had been associated with liberalism, but Bismarck made a conservative nationalism a possibility. -
Denmarck War
He enticed Austria to declare war on Denmark to acquire these two territories. Following a brief war, Prussia assumed control of Schleswig while Austria occupied Holstein. Denmark was too weak militarily to stop either larger power. -
Blood and Iron Speech.
is the title of a speech by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck given in 1862 about the unification of the German territories. It is also a transposed phrase that Bismarck uttered near the end of the speech that has become one of his most widely known quotations. -
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Austria War
The major result of the war was a shift in power among the German states away from Austrian and towards Prussian hegemony, and impetus towards the unification of all of the northern German states in a Kleindeutschland that excluded Austria. -
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Franco Prussion War
conflict between France and Prussia that signaled the rise of German military power and imperialism. It was provoked by Otto von Bismarck the Prussian chancellor as part of his plan to create a unified German Empire. -
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Bismarck Becomes Chancellor
founder and first chancellor 1871–1890 of the German Empire. Once the empire was established, he actively and skillfully pursued pacific policies in foreign affairs, succeeding in preserving the peace in Europe for about two decades. -
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Population Growth
German society grew and changed dramatically in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. In the twenty years prior to the First World War, the rate of population growth averaged 1.34 percent, as compared to .47 percent annual growth in 1871. -
2nd Reich Created
Second of three German Reiche empires. The First Reich was the Holy Roman empire 962-1806. Bismarck created the Second Reich 1871-1918 in a period of unification that reached its climax in the Franco-Prussian War. -
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Constitution Drafted by Bismarck
The text of the constitution was based on that of the Constitution of the North German Confederation, which had likewise been instigated by Otto von Bismarck. According to the constitution, head of state was the King of Prussia as the president of the Bundesrat, the council of representatives of the German states -
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Campaign Against the Church
Bismarck accelerated the Kulturkampf, which did not extend to the other German states such as Bavaria. As one scholar put it, the attack on the church included a series of Prussian, discriminatory laws that made Catholics feel understandably persecuted within a predominantly Protestant nation. -
Campaign Against the Socialists
The Anti-Socialist Law of 1878 was perhaps the most important repressive law of Bismarck’s chancellorship. Bismarck, who had never hidden his distaste for the teachings of socialism, made several attempts to curtail the growth of German Social Democracy -
William II Becomes Kaiser
Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the German kaiser (emperor) and king of Prussia from 1888 to 1918, was one of the most recognizable public figures of World War I (1914-18). -
Bismarck Resigns
After Kaiser Wilhelm II’s accession to the throne in June 1888, conflict between the old chancellor Bismarck and the 29-year-old emperor was almost inevitable. -
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Economic Development
Economic development generally refers to the sustained, concerted actions of policy makers and communities that promote the standard of living and economic health of a specific area. Economic development can also be referred to as the quantitative and qualitative changes in the economy. -
Napoleon Invades German Lands
