Write the brief the process of German unification in history class 10 th
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The process of unification of Germany:
1. The middle-class Germans had tried to fight for a united nation governed by an elected parliament in 1848 but were repressed by the monarchy and military.
2. Otto von Bismarck, chief minister of Prussian led the movement for unification of Germany. He was supported by the bureaucracy and the Prussian army.
3. After three wars with Austria, Denmark, and France, Prussia won and unified Germany. The Prussian king, William I, was proclaimed the German emperor in January 1871.
Germany remained duvided into about 300 principalities for many years. It was Napoleon who organised the principalities into a confederation of 39 states. The Vienna Congress made the Confederation loose, the German Confederation was placed under the domination of Austria.