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Questions on the video, “Bismarck: Germany from „Blood and Iron‟”
1) Who was responsible for the birth of the new nation of Germany?
2) What effect did the creation of a united Germany have in Europe?
3) Where and when was Bismarck born and from which social class?
4) What was the lesson for Bismarck of the failed revolutions of 1848?
5) In 1862 Bismarck was asked by the Prussian king, Wilhelm I, to take on which role in the government?
6) How did Bismarck state that the great questions of the day would be decided?
7) What was Bismarck’s first step in the unification of Germany?
8) What was the second stage in Bismarck’s plan for reunification?
9) After defeating the Austrian army in 1866, why didn’t Bismarck aim at the total conquest of Austria?
10) What was the effect of Prussia’s defeat of Austria?
11) Why did Bismarck want to provoke France into attacking Prussia in 1870?
12) What was the effect of France’s declaration of war on the German states?
13) What indignity did France suffer as a result of its loss to Prussia? Who signed the peace treaty with for France?
14) Where was Wilhelm I crowned “Kaiser” or Emperor of the Second Reich? Why would this have been
particularly offensive to the French people?
15) How does this movie hint at the long-term effects of a united, militant Germany?