Franco-Prussian war
and the Austro-Prussian war
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Germany was not unified as a country until 1870, but Prussia, the most important and unifying part of Germany, had Otto Von Bismarck becoming Prime Minister in 1862. This position in Prussia was also known as the 'Minister President of Prussia.' Bismarck would later go on to unify Germany through three wars by 1870.
Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898) is famous because as Prussia's 'Iron' Chancellor (1862-1890), through a series of wars he united the various German states of the mid 19th century into a single unified German Empire. He made Germany a single nation for the first time in its history. That is why he's famous.
Germany was fractured into warring Provinces in the Religious Wars of the Protestant Reformation. Protestant and Catholic Provinces were not reunited until Otto Von Bismarck in 1870. He immediately embarked on Wars of Aggrandizement against France 1871, Austria, and against Poland.
In both wars, the Allies fought against Germany
the two counties that went to war were Germany and the US.