German Unification Dbq

To begin, in the 1800 century Europe had been lead by Empoorers and king at the time. A man named Napoleon had overthrown most of the political power in Europe which had encouraged the Unification when he had taken more and more land. At first there had been different barriers which had further yet stalled the process of the German Unification. These Barriers had been France preferring thirty nine weak states to one Nation, and Prussia being the most powerful amongst them. To continue the ruler of the smaller tiny states had feared power loss_ with large economic differences between eastern and western states.

Now back to the famous Napoleon, between 1806- 1812 Napoleon had made extremely important changes to territorial changes to german

speakers such as the confederation of the rhine. In 1852, Bismarck had represented Prussia in the German Confederation, was prime minister who had been more focused on expanding Prussia instead of focus on Nationalism. Bismark would make a treaty with Austria to wage war and seize Denmark which had been a short battle and Denmark surrendered to both Prussia and Austria. Giving them Schleswig and Holstein, but this started conflict between both Prussia and Austria. In June 1866 Austria would declare war against Prussia, and this was known as the Austro-Prussian War.

Which Austria lost against Prussia and were insignificantly outmatched by those of the Prussian soldiers.

On August 1886 the war ended with the treaty of Prague.

There were only a few german land which were free from Bismarck hands which he had wanted to Annex those ones even more. The southern German states would join Bismarck's confederation afraid of an attack from France. This had stated each state had individual leadership, whilst he was the main president of the confederation. All the states had finally come together to wage a war against the french which no outside country had come to help. The Franco-Prussian war had finally ended with France paying five billion francs and extra territory.

William the I was proclaimed emperor of the german empire in the Palace of Versailles in 1871. Bismarck had been ready for peace but saw that Europeś power was not in balance, for Germany had the become the most powerful country in Europe_ with a strong military and lots of power. With the help of three men the unification of italy would become possible. Giuseppe Mazzini was a revolutionary democrat republican, who had wanted to unify Italy through a popular revolution. And another man being Giuseppe Garibaldi was a republican military leader who had given every land he had conquered to Victor Emmanuel. The third was Count Camillo Di Cavour he was a sardinia nobleman that lead Piedmonts revolt against Austria_ which encouraged other italy states to

revolt.
Some barriers which were preventing them from completely taking over Italy would have been Italy being divided into multiple estates like germany was. Italy also had not threaten the balance of power in Europe and was considered a geographical position not a state. Mountains split Italy on both west and East, while Italian states disagreed on leaders and types of government. Europeans did not support the Italians because they had thought they would interfere on their plans. To continue, ideas could not be spread out because most of them could not read, or wright_ also italy is isolated by mountains which prevented them from developing their own ways and culture.