Edexcel History 5. The Unification of Germany II

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

An influential (particularly in Prussia) liberal nationalist political association of upper and middle class Germans promoting a kleindeutschland solution under Prussian leadership from 1859 to 1867

Practical and technical focussed secondary schools in Prussia that proved effective in producing highly skilled and well trained scientists and engineers, aiding industrialisation

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 federal union of northern German states under Prussian domination, existing from 1867 - 71

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

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

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

That treaty under which Austria had to renounce any claims to German leadership, recognise the dissolution of the German Confederation, and cede Venetia to France (which immediately ceded it to Italy)

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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That duchy which Austria sought to transfer administration of from itself to the Federal Convention, thereby violating Prussia's joint sovereignty under the Convention of Gastein, being an immediate cause of the Austro-Prussian War

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

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

The factor by which Prussian pig-iron production increased from 1850 to 1870

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

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

That geographic feature which was key to the Austrian economy

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

A siege during the Franco-Prussian War from August to October 1870 after which much of the French army surrendered to German forces

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