The Treaty of Frankfurt was signed between France and Prussia on 10 May, 1871.
Its major outcomes were as follows:
- This treaty completed the unification of Germany and a powerful nation emerged under the leadership of Prussia.
- This treaty made France handover territories of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany after the war.
- The insulting provisions of the treaty towards France laid the foundation of the First World War.
- The ‘Blood and Iron’ policy of Bismarck made a fatal attack on liberalism.
- A war indemnity of 20 crore was put on France. The German army was to stay in France till the payment of the indemnity, whose expense was to be borne by France. This was an insult to France.
- After the war, Italy took control over Rome. Alongwith Germany, the unification of Italy was also completed.
