This solution also missed the mark in terms of the vision to unite "all those of the German tongue" in the new empire. Months went by with the two sides unable to find a compromise, and soon they ...

In January 1871 the King of Prussia, Wilhelm I, was declared head of the new German Empire with Bismarck as Chancellor in a ceremony arranged (to humiliate France) in Versailles. It may have ...

a new imperial constitution was set up within the now unified German states Wilhelm I, was officially recognised as Emperor (Kaiser) of the German Empire ...

When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Turkey was established. The German Empire became Germany, and Germany lost substantial territory outside Europe. For more information about the history of World ...