Edexcel History 4. The Unification of Germany I

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That which could best describe the situation from 1846 to 1847 caused by disastrous corn harvests and severe potato blight - part of the wider hungry forties

That word that could best define German liberalism, centred more on constitutional reform, in comparison to that in France, which was much more revolutionary

A very centralised constitution adopted in Austria in March 1849 which allowed for a bicameral parliament and moderate reforms though still under a very powerful monarch, abolished in 1851 by Emperor Franz Joseph I in favour of autocracy

The rallying cry of the anti-1848 Revolution conservatives

That war in which Prussia remained neutral thus preserving its relations with Russia, Great Britain, and France

That German state which was the dominant economic power by 1848 due in no small part to the Zollverein

That war in which Austria acted as an anti-Russian non-belligerent, earning it the loss of its alliance with Russia while remaining aloof from Great Britain and France

An 1832 festival in which 30,000 people gathered to listen to democratic, and German nationalist orators

Identification with one's nation which is held central to all political activity and decision making

That incarnation of a German state otherwise known as the Third Reich

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A term used by Karl Marx to refer to the primarily industrial working classes

A code put forward by the Artisan Congress in Frankfurt during the 1848 revolutions that sought to protect the restrictive nature of the guild system, to opposition from the Frankfurt Parliament, discrediting the latter in the eyes of many artisans and craftsmen

A moderate liberal and head of the Austrian State Council who dominated Austria's domestic affairs from 1826 to 1848, being a major opponent of Prince Klemens von Metternich

A treaty following the First Schleswig War in 1848 that forced Prussia and the Frankfurt Parliament to accept the Danish annexation of Schleswig, losing the latter much public support

The number of German states in the Holy Roman Empire at the end of the 18th century?

The conservative Minister President of Prussia from 1850 to 1858 who believed the best way to avoid revolution was to improve the living conditions of peasants and workers, thus prompting sweeping social reforms

The two consecutive years in which the radical liberal Progressive Party gained successively large majorities in the Prussian lower house against a background of constitutional crisis caused by von Roon's Army Reform Bill

That crisis which was 'solved' after Otto von Bismarck was appointed Minister President of Prussia in 1862 and - after failing spectacularly to ameliorate relations with Parliament - declared Parliament's support for von Roon's Army Reform Bill unnecessary, enforcing it against their will

A November 1850 meeting between Austrian Minister President Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg and Prussian Minister President Otto von Manteuffel in which - under Russian and Austrian pressure - Prussia abandoned and dissolved the Erfurt Union

The country in which the 1848 Revolutions began, ultimately leading to the abdication of its monarch in February