WORLD HISTORY

NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

UNIFICATION OF ITALY AND GERMANY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
who was the king of Prussia during the early 1800s?
A
Victor Emanuel II
B
Wilhelm I
C
Guisseppe Garibaldi
D
Simon Bolivar
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -William I or Wilhelm I (German: Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888) was King of Prussia from 2 January 1861 and German Emperor from 18 January 1871 until his death in 1888. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the first head of state of a united Germany.

Detailed explanation-2: -William I became King of Prussia in 1861 and German Emperor in 1871. He was son of Frederick William III and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Married in 1829 Augusta, daughter of Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar.

Detailed explanation-3: -Frederick William II, (born September 25, 1744, Berlin, Prussia [now in Germany]-died November 16, 1797, Berlin), king of Prussia from August 17, 1786, under whom, despite his lack of exceptional military and political gifts, Prussia achieved considerable expansion.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the German kaiser (emperor) and king of Prussia from 1888 to 1918, was one of the most recognizable public figures of World War I (1914-18).

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