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The 47 pages that link to German unification, each with the reason it gives.

• Congress of ViennaRelated: Unification replaced the loose German Confederation created at Vienna with a powerful nation-state.

• Revolutions of 1848Related: The Frankfurt Parliament’s failure redirected, but did not end, the drive for German unity.

• Napoleon IIIRelated: The empire's formation after French defeat reversed Napoleon III's effort to preserve a balance of power.

• Prussian ArmyRelated: Military victories under Prussian command made unification by force possible.

• German colonial empireRelated: A unified state created the political setting for Germany’s later overseas expansion.

• Paul von HindenburgRelated: Hindenburg served in the wars and army of the newly unified empire.

• August BebelRelated: The new empire created the national political arena in which Bebel opposed imperial rule.

• German General StaffRelated: Unification transformed a Prussian institution into the army’s central staff for a larger state.

• German cuisineRelated: A unified state brought diverse regional food customs under a shared national identity.

• Alfred von TirpitzRelated: Unification created the state whose overseas ambitions Tirpitz later sought to support with naval power.

• Friedrich ListRelated: List linked economic integration among German states with the possibility of political unity.

• Friedrich Ludwig JahnRelated: Jahn’s call for unity anticipated a political goal achieved after his lifetime.

• Johann Gustav DroysenRelated: Droysen’s political writing defended the national state that emerged through Prussian unification.

• DeutschlandliedRelated: Unification gave the song’s first stanza a new political setting and resonance.

• National dayRelated: Some national observances mark political unification rather than independence.

• Leonhard Graf von BlumenthalRelated: Blumenthal’s campaigns contributed militarily to the Prussian-led process of unification.

• Music of GermanyRelated: Unification changed the institutions and national framing of musical life.

• SonderwegRelated: Unification from above is central to accounts of Germany's distinctive state formation.

• William IRelated: His kingship provided the Prussian crown around which unification was achieved.