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The factor by which Prussian pig-iron production increased from 1850 to 1870
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Six-fold
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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
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North German Confederation
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Those two most significant countries, Prussia's railway network was superior to by the 1860's and 70's, in alphabetical order
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Austria and France
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The two cities in which Otto von Bismarck was ambassador before becoming Minister President of Prussia, chronologically
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St. Petersburg and Paris
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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
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Bill of Indemnity
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That which Otto von Bismarck embraced in the late 1850's so as to manipulate it to further Prussian power
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German Nationalism
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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
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North German Constitution
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A federal union of northern German states under Prussian domination, existing from 1867 - 71
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North German Confederation
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Practical and technical focussed secondary schools in Prussia that proved effective in producing highly skilled and well trained scientists and engineers, aiding industrialisation
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Realschulen
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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
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Second Schleswig War
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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
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Treaty of Vienna
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A telegram from William I to Otto von Bismarck regarding the Hohenzollern Candidature which - when amended by the latter for release to the press - was made to seem insulting to the French such that is provoked war in 1870
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Ems Telegram
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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
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Federal Convention
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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
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Austro-Prussian War
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A state or provincial parliament as in Prussia
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Landtag
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A May 1871 treaty that formally ratified the February 1871 Treaty of Versailles, ending the Franco-Prussian War, forcing France to pay indemnities, cede Alsace and much of Lorraine, and officially founded the German Empire under Kaiser Wilhelm I
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Treaty of Frankfurt
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The French emperor whose expansionist policies pushed the four independent southern German states into the arms of Prussia out of German nationalist fears of French domination
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Napoleon III
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The alternative name for the Austro-Prussian War, given in lieu of the conflict's duration
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Seven Weeks War
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An 1865 meeting between Napoleon III and Otto von Bismarck in which the formed agreed to remain neutral in any future Austro-Prussian conflict so as not to antagonise Italy, and assuming Prussia would be defeated thus strengthening France's negotiating hand over lands west of the Rhine
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Biarritz Meeting
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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
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Holstein
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