Unification of germany ppt

5. RISE OF NATIONALISM
•NATIONALIST FEELINGS WERE
WIDESPREAD AMONG MIDDLE-CLASS
GERMANS ,WHO IN 1848 TRIED TO
UNITE THE DIFFERENT REGIONS OF
THE GERMAN CONFEDERATION INTO
A NATION STATE GOVERNED BY AN
ELECTED PARLIAMENT.

7. •THE LIBERAL INITIATIVE TO NATION-
BUILDING WAS REPRESSED BY
COMBINED FORCES OF MONARCHY
AND MILITARY SUPPORTED BY LARGE
LAND OWNERS (CALLED JUNKERS) OF
PRUSSIA.

8. •THE NEXT IMAGE IS OF
GERMANIA,ARTIST HAVE
PREPARED THIS PAINTING ON
COTTON BANNER,AS IT WAS
MEANT TO HANG FROM THE
CEILING OF THE CHURCH OF ST
PAUL WHERE FRANKFURT
PARLIAMENT WAS CONVENED IN
MARCH 1848.

10. THE FEMALE FIGURE GERMANIA
BECAME ALLEGORY OF THE
NATION.
IN HER VISUAL REPRESENTATION
GERMANIA WEARS CROWN OF OAK
LEAVES…AS GERMAN OAK
SIGNIFIES HEROISM.

12. •PRUSSIA TOOK LEADERSHIP FOR
NATIONAL UNIFICATION.
•ITS CHIEF MINISTER OTTO VON
BISMARK WAS ARCHITECT OF THE
PROCESS CARRIED OUT WITH THE
HELP OF PRUSSIAN ARMY AND
BUREAUCRACY.

13. BISMARK ON RIGHT WITH
NAPOLEAN III

14. THREE WARS OVER SEVEN
YEARS.
•- WITH AUSTRIA,DENMARK,AND
FRANCE ENDED IN PRUSSIAN
VICTORY AND COMPLETED THE
PROCESS OF UNIFICATION.

15. PROCLAMATION OF EMPEROR
•IN JANUARY 1871;THE PRUSSIAN KING
WILLIAM I, WAS PROCLAIMED
GERMAN EMPEROR IN A CEREMONY
HELD AT HALL OF MIRRORS,
VERSAILLES.

16. •ON BITTERLY COLD MORNING OF 18
JAN 1871 AN ASSEMBLY COMPRISING-
•PRINCES OF GERMAN STATES.
•REPRENTATIVES OF ARMY.
•CHIEF MINISTER BISMARK.
GATHERED IN HALL OF MIRRORS IN
THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES TO……

17. •TO PROCLAIM THE NEW GERMAIN
EMPIRE HEADED BY KAISER WILLIAM I
OF PRUSSIA.
•NEXT IMAGE IS OF HALL OF MIRRORS
AT VERSAIILES.

18. AT CENTRE STANDS THE KAISER &
THE CHIEF COMMANDER OF PRUSSIAN
ARMY GENERAL VON ROON NEAR HIM
IS BISMARK.

19. •HENCE ON 18 JAN 1871
UNIFICATION OF
GERMANY WAS
ACHIEVED.