NCERT Solutions Class 10 Social Science History : Briefly trace the process of German unification?

Nationalist feelings were spread among middle class Germans. They tried to unite the different regions of the German confederation into a nation-state governed by an elected parliament in 1848.
This liberal initiative to nation-building was repressed by the combined forces of the monarchy and the military, supported by the large landowners (called Junkers) of Prussia.
From then on, Prussia took on the leadership of the movement for national unification.
Prussia CM, Otto von Bismarck, was the architect of this process carried out with the help of the Prussian army and bureaucracy.
3 wars over 7 years with Austria, Denmark and France ended in Prussian victory and completed the process of unification.
In January 1871, the Prussian king, William I, was proclaimed German Emperor in a ceremony held at Versailles.

Otto von Bismarck was the mastermind of German unification in 1871. He was a conservative German statesman. He was nicknamed the Iron Chancellor.
He was the Chancellor of the North German Confederation from 1861 to 1871.
He was the Minister-President of Prussia from 1862 to 1890.
He was the Chancellor until 1890 after the unification of Germany.
North German Confederation was the first German national state that was established after abolishing the supranational German Confederation by Otto von Bismarck.