Impacts/ Positive or Negative

- when otto von bismarck became prime minister of Prussia, he brought second-rate power that overshadowed Russia, Austria, France, and Britain. He led Prussia to be the dominate part of a united German Empire

-Instead of the old order being overwhelmed by the revolutionary forces of industrialisation, nationalism, and liberalism, Otto von Bismarck had put them all in harness to the traditional Prussian militarism represented by the King, the Junkers, and the Army. Bismarck had created an extraordinary hybrid: a turret of feudal power resting on a base of modern capitalist industry. Bismarck’s career of extraordinary statesmanship falls into two distinct phases.