Edexcel History 5. The Unification of Germany II

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That which Otto von Bismarck embraced in the late 1850's so as to manipulate it to further Prussian power

A state or provincial parliament as in Prussia

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

A large moderate right-wing German party formed in 1867 after splitting from the German Conservative Party which was much more cooperative with Otto von Bismarck

Chief of Staff of the Prussian and later German army who led the successful campaigns against Austria and France in 1866 and 1870-71 respectively

That geographic feature which was key to the Austrian economy

A secret 1866 alliance in which Italy agreed to support Prussia if Austria declared war on it within three months, in exchange for Prussia making no separate peace until italy conquered Venetia

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

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

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

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A mostly middle class Prussian military reserve force, which could be called on during emergencies

A war in which Prussia defeated numerically superior Austria due to technological superiority and Austrian tactical blunders

That war in which Prussia allied with Austria so as to prevent the latter attacking it in support of the claim to the duchies by the line of the Prince of Augustenburg

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 factor by which Prussian pig-iron production eclipsed Austrian production in 1870?

That which the four independent southern German states agreed to in 1871 for fear of threatening their thrones by outraging their people (encouraged by Otto von Bismarck), whipped up into a German nationalist fervour by victory against the French

A large 1863-64 uprising in Russia aimed at restoring the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ultimately defeated despite French, British, and most importantly Austrian sympathies

The dominant sector of the Austria economy through the 1850's

An 1865 treaty between Austria and Prussia that ensured joint Austro-Prussian sovereignty over both duchies, though with Austria administering Holstein, and Prussia Schleswig, giving Otto von Bismarck a pretext to quarrel with Austria in future

A canal linking the North Sea at Tönning and Baltic Sea at Kiel via Schleswig-Holstein, considered economically important to the Prussians