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The factor by which Prussian pig-iron production eclipsed Austrian production in 1870?
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Seven-fold
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The decade from which Prussia increased food production by introducing and developing more productive food crops such as potatoes and turnips
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1830's
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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
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House of Hohenzollern
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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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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
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Convention of Gastein
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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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Second Mexican Empire
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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 dominant German party formed in 1867 after splitting from the German Progress Party which was much more cooperative with Otto von Bismarck
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National Liberal Party
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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
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Hohenzollern Candidature Crisis
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An 1863 conference of German rulers convened and led by Austria to re-organise the German Confederation though still under an Austrian presidency, which failed due to a Prussian boycott under Otto von Bismarck's advice
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Frankfurt Conference
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That which the four independent southern German states agreed to in 1871 for fear of threatening their thrones by outraging their people (encouraged by Otto von Bismarck), whipped up into a German nationalist fervour by victory against the French
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German Unification
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That comment made by Otto von Bismarck on the foundation of the North German Confederation
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'We have done enough for our generation'
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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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The principal treaty - signed on the 23rd August 1866 - that ended the Austro Prussian War
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Peace of Prague
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The four states aside from Austria that were not members of the North German Confederation, in alphabetical order
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Baden, Bavaria, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Württemberg
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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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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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Dual Alliance
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That treaty under which Prussia annexed Hanover, Schleswig-Holstein, Hesse-Cassel, Nassau, and Frankfurt
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Peace of Prague
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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
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Zollparlament
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