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‘Dropping the pilot’

Bismarck’s fall and its consequences

For nearly three decades, Otto von Bismarck dominated Prussian/German politics and became the arbiter of European affairs. But the accession in 1888 of a brash young monarch changed everything and set Germany on the path to war

Cartoon of Otto von Bismark walking down a ladder from a ship towards a rowing boat. Wilhelm II watches him from the ship.
‘Dropping the Pilot’ by Sir John Tenniel, published in Punch magazine in 1890, is a commentary on Otto von Bismarck’s resignation as Chancellor of Germany
© The Granger Collection/Alamy Stock Photo

AQA 1L The quest for political stability: Germany, 1871–1991

AQA 2K International relations and global conflict, c.1890–1941

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