NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE
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Otto von Bismarck
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B. Kaiser William I
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C. Giuseppe Mazzini
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Metternich
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Detailed explanation-1: -Prussia took over the leadership of the movement for unification of Germany, and its chief minister Otto von Bismarck was the architect of this process. He was a Prussian statesman who dominated the German affairs between the 1860 to 1890.
Detailed explanation-2: -Prussia took on the leadership of the movement for national unification. Its chief minister, Otto von Bismarck, was the architect of this process carried out with the help of the Prussian army and bureaucracy.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Otto von Bismarck served as prime minister of Prussia (1862–73, 1873–90) and was the founder and first chancellor (1871–90) of the German Empire.
Detailed explanation-5: -His main goal was to further strengthen the position of Prussia in Europe. Bismarck had a number of primary aims: to unify the north German states under Prussian control. to weaken Prussia’s main rival, Austria, by removing it from the German Federation.