Similar to Camillo di Cavour, the leading figure in directing the Italian unification, an aristocratic landowner (commonly called a “Junker” traditionally in Prussia) named Otto von Bismarck pushed the German Union by “blood and iron” as well as an extremely vast knowledge of realpolitik. Being the second hand to the authority in power, he directed orders. In the 1860s, he incited three petite, pivotal wars alongside Denmark, Austria, and France, bringing into line the smaller German areas behind Prussia in its defeat of France. Finally, in 1871, they integrated Germany into a nation-state, founding the German Empire.Nonetheless, the imperialism of Germany under Bismarck’s era remains a provocative and debatable topic among many historians and researchers due to the fundamental causes of wars, school-of-thought, development, and historical significance of this period.
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