Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
The Franco-Prussian War was a war between France and Prussia. Some German allies of Prussia also joined
BATTLE OF SEDAN AND CAPTURE OF NAPOLEON III
July 19, 1870 – May 10, 1871
SIEGE OF PARIS, FRENCH CAPITULATION, AND GERMAN OCCUPATION
A conflict between the Second French Empire and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia
Conflict engineered by the Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. The nominal cause was a dispute over the Spanish succession. Bismarck's aim was to use the prospect of French invasion to frighten the s German states into joining the North German Confederation dominated by Prussia.
German victory , Treaty of Frankfurt, Formation of the German Empire, Fall of the Second French Empire, Formation of the French Third Republic, German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine
MAJOR EMPHASIS ON CONNECTION TO WWI
connection is through the loss by France of the Alsace-Lorraine region of northeastern France to the Germans, and the consolidation by Otto von Bismarck, "Iron Chancellor" of Prussia, of all the various smaller German states surrounding Prussia into what became the powerful nation of Germany of World Wars 1 and 2.