WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -William and Bismarck never wavered from their aims of maintaining the power and prestige of Prussia and of the house of Hohenzollern. Too many German leaders also failed to appreciate Bismarck’s insistence on keeping the military in its appropriate role in the state, even in the time of war.

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.