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Number 1. Kaiser (King) of Germany who wanted to rule without Otto von Bismarck, allowing him to resign in 1890.

Correct Answer: Wilhelm II

Number 2. A Prussian statesman who was Chancellor of Prussia under Wilhelm I and who was responsible for the unification of the German states through his foreign and political strategy, making Prussia the dominant German state.

Correct Answer: Otto von Bismarck

Number 3. Bismarck’s major two strategies to unite Germany—War and Industrialization

Correct Answer: Blood and Iron

Number 4. Economic customs union of the German states which cut out Austria and lead to stronger German union and industrialization

Correct Answer: Zollverein

Number 5. German aristocrat

Correct Answer: Junker

Number 6. The policy utilized by Bismarck to ensure Prussian dominance in Germany.  It is a form of politics that is not concerned with principles or ethics but with power and the means to it. 

Correct Answer: Realpolitik

Number 7. A war that put Prussia and Austria against Denmark in order to get control of German peoples in Schleswig and Holstein—two states controlled at that time by Denmark, who, after the war, lost both.

Correct Answer: Danish War 1864

Number 8. War manipulated by Bismarck against Prussia’s greatest rival for power—Austria.  In this war, Italy aided Prussia in defeating Austria and its allies to help Prussia consolidate its power in the northern German states.

Correct Answer: Austro-Prussian War (Seven Week’s War) 1866

Number 9. Telegram from Kaiser Wilhelm I to Bismarck outlining a disagreement between the Kaiser and the French ambassador Benedetti over the succession to the Spanish throne and “doctored” by Bismarck to make it appear that the Kaiser was insulted by the French and precipitating the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.

Correct Answer: Ems

Number 10. War between France and Prussia in 1870 (again precipitated by Bismarck’s politics).  Prussia defeated France and ended the French Second Empire.  Germany was proclaimed a nation at the French Palace of Versailles (an insult to the French) and allowed Bismarck to reach his goal of a Prussian-dominated Germany.

Correct Answer: Franco-Prussian War