1. Mr. Bridges Modern World History 2/8/2010

2.  What is Germany like in the early 1800s  How does Bismarck unify the divided German States?

3.  Impact of Napoleon  Council of Vienna  1815  Creates the German Confederation

4. German Confederation Prussia Austria - Hungary

5.  Key Player: King William I of Prussia  Creates the Zollverein  Economic Union  Dismantled trade barriers between German States

6.  From Prussia’s Junker class  Becomes Chancellor  Unites German states under Prussian rule  Master of Realpolitik  Motives?

7.  Bismarck’s 3 Wars:  War with Denmark  Allies with Austria

8.  War with Austria  Invents an excuse to invade  Takes new territories

9.  Franco-Prussian War  How did Bismarck convince Germans to go to war with France?  Total victory for the Germans  What do the Germans gain? ▪ 1) Complete feeling of German Nationalism ▪ 2) Alsace-Lorraine