Edexcel History 5. The Unification of Germany II

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

That house which Napoleon III and French Foreign Minister Gramont demanded William I renounce in perpetuity its rights to the Spanish succession

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

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

That which dissolved in 1867 over a split between left liberals and nationalist liberals resulting from the peace terms of the Austro-Prussian War

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

The appointed upper house of the German Parliament which could refuse consent to any legislation and - with the consent of William I - dissolve the Reichstag

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

That treaty over which the principle dispute it caused was how Schleswig-Holstein should be governed, Austria supporting the Augustenburg claim, and Prussia supporting annexation

A state or provincial parliament as in Prussia

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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

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

That principle which came to the fore amongst conservatives and liberals alike after the idealism of 1848-50

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

That body which Prussia issued proposals to exclude Austria from, leading to Austrian mobilisation against Prussia in the lead-up to the Austro-Prussian War

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

Those three rivers that superseded the Danube in German economic importance by the 1860's thanks to Prussian state investment, in alphabetical order

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

That geographic feature which was key to the Austrian economy

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