Edexcel History 5. The Unification of Germany II

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An 1864 treaty which handed control of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark to a joint Austro-Prussian administration after the Second Schleswig War

The name which many consider might more accurately be given to the Franco-Prussian War

That war in which Otto von Bismarck counseled William I to accept peace so as to prevent giving reason for outside intervention and prevent causing their enemy greater enmity in the future when Prussia may rely on their neutrality

The two cities in which Otto von Bismarck was ambassador before becoming Minister President of Prussia, chronologically

The French emperor whose expansionist policies pushed the four independent southern German states into the arms of Prussia out of German nationalist fears of French domination

That country, the politics of which were dominated by agriculturalist Junkers, and industrialists from the 1840's onwards

The four states aside from Austria that were not members of the North German Confederation, in alphabetical order

The principal treaty - signed on the 23rd August 1866 - that ended the Austro Prussian War

A battle during the Franco-Prussian War in September 1870 in which a French army moving to relieve Metz was defeated by the Germans and Napoleon III was captured, later being deposed by the revolutionary Government of National Defence

That duchy which Austria sought to transfer administration of from itself to the Federal Convention, thereby violating Prussia's joint sovereignty under the Convention of Gastein, being an immediate cause of the Austro-Prussian War

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A telegram from William I to Otto von Bismarck regarding the Hohenzollern Candidature which - when amended by the latter for release to the press - was made to seem insulting to the French such that is provoked war in 1870

That treaty under which Prussia annexed Hanover, Schleswig-Holstein, Hesse-Cassel, Nassau, and Frankfurt

That country the great fortress of which, Prussian troops were required to withdraw from - though the country would remain within the Zollverein - in exchange for Napoleon III backing down over the eponymous crisis

A defensive alliance negotiated under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck between Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1879 for mutual defence against Russia

A customs union parliament with delegates from the North German Confederation and the four independent southern German states, intended to encourage cooperation between the two

That region of which it was Otto von Bismarck's principle aim to dominate as opposed to the unification of Germany

An 1870 event in which Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern was offered the vacant Spanish Crown by the Spanish Cortes - reluctantly accepted by him and William I under pressure from Otto von Bismarck - leading to a crisis with France after which William I and Leopold withdrew their acceptance

The factor by which steam engines operating in Prussia outnumbered those operating in Austria by 1865

Those two most significant countries, Prussia's railway network was superior to by the 1860's and 70's, in alphabetical order

The economic policy embraced by Prussian Minister-President Otto von Manteuffel, characterised by the reducing of regulations