Question 30 - Choice 2 - Social Science CBSE Class 10 Sample Paper for 2023 Boards - Solutions to CBSE Sample Paper - Social Science Class 10 - Social Science Class 10

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Highlight the role of Otto Von Bismarck in making of Germany.

Answer:

Prussia took on the leadership of the movement for national unification .
Otto von Bismarck, the architect of this process carried it ou t with the aid of the Prussian army and bureaucracy.
Three wars over a period of seven years were won by Prussia and completed the process of unification under his leadership .
Prussian King William I was proclaimed as German Emperor .
On January 1871 , an assembly in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles proclaimed the new German Empire headed by Kaiser William I of Prussia .

The role of Otto Von Bismarck in the making of Germany:

The military's combined forces were supported by the large landowners ( called junkers) of Prussia repressed liberal attempts to nation-building. From that point, Prussia took on the leadership of the movement for national unification .
Otto von Bismarck, the country's chief minister, was the architect of this process , which was carried ou t with the aid of the Prussian army and bureaucracy.
Three wars over a period of seven years with Austria, Denmark, and France were won by Prussia and completed the process of unification under his leadership .
In a ceremon y held in Versailles in January 1871 , Prussian King William I was proclaimed as German Emperor .
On January 1871 , an assembly attended by the princes of the German states, representatives of the army , important Prussian ministers including the chief minister Otto von Bismarck gathered in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles to proclaim the new German Empire headed by Kaiser William I of Prussia .