Edexcel History 5. The Unification of Germany II

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

That Prussian Minister-President who relaxed the use of censorship, instead publishing government friendly articles to counter critical ones

A successful 1866 bill by the newly elected liberal-conservative balanced Prussian Landtag that 'forgave' Otto von Bismarck all his past 'transgressions' against them since 1862, marking a move towards greater cooperation for a Kleindeutschland solution

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

A state or provincial parliament as in Prussia

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 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

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

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

A short lived 1862-67 French client state that collapsed under opposition military pressure leading to a humiliation for Napoleon III

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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

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

An 1863 treaty between Prussia and Russia which allowed for military cooperation between the two to defeat the January Uprising, thereby improving Russo-Prussian relations

An 1867 crisis in which Otto von Bismarck - after nationalist pressure - objected to Luxembourg's purchase from the Netherlands by France, nearly leading to war, after which Napoleon III backed down

A system of politics based on practical, pragmatic, and realistic rather than ideological considerations, as espoused by people like Otto von Bismarck

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

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

An 1867 agreement that saw Hungary regain some sovereignty in the form of a somewhat more liberalised dual monarchy

That which France was confident in declaring war on in 1870 believing the Austria and the four independent southern German states would join it, the latter four of which sided with that in question, and the former of which refused to join without them

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