Slide 1Only the Strong Survive: Realpolitik & the Age of Unification The Great Decision of the time will not be resolved by speeches and majority decisions…but by blood…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 The Industrial Revolution: ù Replacement of animal/human power by harnessed forms of natural energy  Steam  Electricity & Oil  Nuclear…

Slide 1 Slide 2 The Luddites: 1811-1816 Ned Ludd [a mythical figure supposed to live in Sherwood Forest] Attacks on the “frames” [power looms]. Slide 3 The Luddite Triangle…

Slide 1 Slide 2 German Unification Slide 3 Focus Question Was the unification of Italy more liberal or conservative? Why? What about Germany? Slide 4 FACTORS PROMOTING UNITY…

Slide 1 The Unification of Germany Slide 2 Key Terms Prussia and Austria Principalities Confederation of the Rhine Wilhelm I Otto von Bismarck Denmark’s Schleswig and Holstein…