Otto Von Bismarck unifies Germany (jan 1, 1862 – jan 1, 1890)

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connects to Lincoln's desire for unification and had similar economic boom as a result of war | Later, Ulysses S. Grant and his wife took a 2yr trip around the world post presidency (1877-79). In Berlin, Otto von Bismarck, the chancellor of Germany, welcomed Grant as a nation-builder, who had accomplished on the battlefield something—national unity—that Bismarck was attempting to create for his own people. “You had to save the Union,” Bismarck commented, “just as we had to save Germany.”