3 the age of bismarck german unification and the growth of german power
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The Age of BismarckGerman Unification and the Growth of German
Power
Otto von Bismarck
Bismarck’s creation
A judgment on Napoleon III“The First Mountebank Dictator”
“The careers of Napoleon III and Hitler have shown how far even a bare minimum of ideas and resources, when backed by a nation’s reminiscences or passions, can carry a man in the political desert of “direct democracy”; and the books written about Napoleon III show how loath posterity is to accept the stark truth about such a man.”
Source: Sir Lewis Namier, Vanished Supremacies (London, 1958): 83.
Empire proclaimed
Dreikaiserbund
Disraeli & Gladstone
Alexander II
Congress of Berlin
Francesco Crispi
Bismarck goes
Bismarck’s SuccessorsWilliam II, von Tirpitz, von Caprivi
Railways