WORLD HISTORY

NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

UNIFICATION OF ITALY AND GERMANY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who practiced his realpolitik theory and unified Germany?
A
Wilhelm I
B
Giuseppe Garibaldi
C
Count Camillo di Cavour
D
Otto Von Bismark
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The most famous German advocate of Realpolitik, what was uniquely possible and the applied means to achieve it, was Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor (1862–1890) to Wilhelm I of the Kingdom of Prussia. Bismarck used Realpolitik in his quest to achieve Prussian dominance in Germany.

Detailed explanation-2: -Otto Von Bismarck did more than just help to create a unified Germany. He also helped to start a political philosophy that has been called Realpolitik.

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: -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-5: -Bismarck, Otto von remains one of the most significant political figures of modern Germany. This stature derives from his contribution to the creation and shaping of the modern German state as Prussian minister president and imperial chancellor from 1862 to 1890.

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