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Edexcel History 5. The Unification of Germany II

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That Prussian Minister-President who relaxed the use of censorship, instead publishing government friendly articles to counter critical ones
Otto von Manteuffel
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
Convention of Gastein
A federal union of northern German states under Prussian domination, existing from 1867 - 71
North German Confederation
The alternative name for the Austro-Prussian War, given in lieu of the conflict's duration
Seven Weeks War
The decisive engagement of the Austro-Prussian War in which Prussia defeated Austria causing the latter to sue for peace lest Vienna fall and the empire potentially dissolve
Battle of Könnigrätz
A short lived 1862-67 French client state that collapsed under opposition military pressure leading to a humiliation for Napoleon III
Second Mexican Empire
The economic policy embraced by Prussian Minister-President Otto von Manteuffel, characterised by the reducing of regulations
Free Trade
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
Zollparlament
That treaty under which Prussia annexed Hanover, Schleswig-Holstein, Hesse-Cassel, Nassau, and Frankfurt
Peace of Prague
A siege during the Franco Prussian War from September 1870 to January 1871 after which the French revolutionary government surrendered due to starvation and the defeat of all newly raised provincial armies in the field
Siege of Paris
That geographic feature which was key to the Austrian economy
River Danube
That which Otto von Bismarck embraced in the late 1850's so as to manipulate it to further Prussian power
German Nationalism
A state or provincial parliament as in Prussia
Landtag
A canal linking the North Sea at Tönning and Baltic Sea at Kiel via Schleswig-Holstein, considered economically important to the Prussians
Eider Canal
The more liberal democratic constitution of the North German Confederation which gave all men over 25 the vote and ensured a division of powers though with Bundeskanzler Otto von Bismarck and Federal President William I having huge powers to dominate the confederation
North German Constitution
That house which Napoleon III and French Foreign Minister Gramont demanded William I renounce in perpetuity its rights to the Spanish succession
House of Hohenzollern
Practical and technical focussed secondary schools in Prussia that proved effective in producing highly skilled and well trained scientists and engineers, aiding industrialisation
Realschulen
A large 1863-64 uprising in Russia aimed at restoring the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ultimately defeated despite French, British, and most importantly Austrian sympathies
January Uprising
An 1864 treaty which handed control of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark to a joint Austro-Prussian administration after the Second Schleswig War
Treaty of Vienna
A war in which Prussia defeated numerically superior Austria due to technological superiority and Austrian tactical blunders
Austro-Prussian War
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