USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Wilhelm I of Prussia became emperor. As ‘chancellor’ of the new Germany, Bismarck concentrated on building a powerful state with a unified national identity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Konrad Adenauer, (born January 5, 1876, Cologne, Germany-died April 19, 1967, Rhöndorf, West Germany), first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany; 1949–63), presiding over its reconstruction after World War II.

Detailed explanation-3: -Germany became a modern, unified nation under the leadership of the “Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), who between 1862 and 1890 effectively ruled first Prussia and then all of Germany.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Bismarck’s successor was Leo, Graf von Caprivi, a military administrator who, despite his conservatism, accepted William II’s policy of winning over the parties of the masses.