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Otto von Bismarck

Portrait of Otto von Bismarck

The Iron Chancellor · Chancellor of Germany · 1815–1898

The Iron Chancellor who unified Germany through blood and iron — and then kept the peace for twenty years through diplomacy.

Why Bismarck is on Incandio

Incandio is a free revision platform for the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE. Its historical figures are the people a student learns from, questions and — where a specification topic is theirs — defends an idea against. Otto von Bismarck can be questioned here in a dramatised, historically grounded portrayal, and the five-chapter life below is written to be read alongside the course.

Explore the life of Bismarck — five chapters

  1. The Mad Junker — Duels, debts and an unpromising start
  2. Blood and Iron — Governing without a budget
  3. Three Wars in Seven Years — Königgrätz, the Ems Dispatch, and an empire proclaimed at Versailles
  4. The Chancellor at Home — Persecuting Catholics, banning socialists, inventing welfare
  5. Dropping the Pilot — Dismissed, and what happened to his system

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