The German Empire and the German Navy

Germany was unified properly as a nation state for the first time in 18 71, at the end of the franco german war. And after 18 71, germany embarked upon a rapid and very successful phase of reforms and industrialization. It leap frogged all other european powers in a very brief period of time. Full rapid industrialization, reforms in society, more modern society and so on. Then there was a build upo of the navy under the german kaiser william the second,. between the 18 betwen the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He fought wars to unify germany. He fought the austrohungarian empire. He took some