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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
As a result of the spread of enlightenment ideas across Europe Germany began to unify, who led the unification?
A
Wilhelm I who appointed Otto von Bismarck as prime minister
B
Count Camillo di Cavour who appointed Otto von Bismarck as prime minister
C
Charles X who appointed Louis-Philippe as prime minister
D
Otto von Bismarck who appointed Wilhelm I as prime minister
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Otto von Bismarck was a Prussian politician who became Germany’s first-ever chancellor, a position in which he served from 1871 to 1890. Through a series of wars, he unified 39 individual states into one German nation in 1871.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the 1860s, Otto von Bismarck, then Minister President of Prussia, provoked three short, decisive wars against Denmark, Austria, and France, aligning the smaller German states behind Prussia in its defeat of France. In 1871 he unified Germany into a nation-state, forming the German Empire.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1867 Bismarck created the North German Confederation, a union of the northern German states under the hegemony of Prussia. Several other German states joined, and the North German Confederation served as a model for the future German Empire.

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