Edexcel History 4. The Unification of Germany I

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That which could best describe the situation from 1846 to 1847 caused by disastrous corn harvests and severe potato blight - part of the wider hungry forties

One of the members of the Erfurt Union, which - after the outbreak of revolution in 1850 - the elector and head of government Hans Hassenpflug requested the Federal Convention intervene causing a diplomatic and small-scale military crisis between Austria and Prussia

Those two regions of the Austrian Empire in which armed rebellion was centred during the 1848 revolutions

He whose - alongside the Austrian Emperor's - initial response to the March Revolution was to send in cavalry to crush the protests, which caused a large scale armed response from the city's working class population

A nationalised Prussian organisation that owned engineering plants, textile mills, and chemical works, involved in exporting goods and trade

The 1848 - 1849 elected (mostly via delegates) successor of the Vorparlament, consisting mostly of moderate middle class liberals, with only a minority of radicals, revolutionaries, republicans, or reactionary conservatives, that helped fill the vacuum left by Austrian and Prussian distraction

The phrase reputedly said by King Frederick William IV of Prussia in describing the German crown offered to him by the Frankfurt Parliament, which he refused due to its illegitimacy, and that it would have antagonised other powers and bound him to a constitutional body he had no wish to encourage

That population which was Europe's most literate in the early to mid 19th century

That body, convened in May 1850 by Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg to challenge the legitimacy of the Erfurt Parliament

A declaration by 51 representatives from Prussia, Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden, Nassau, and Frankfurt, published in March 1848 calling for the creation of a German-wide meeting to discuss proposals for political reform

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A solution to the German Question that would include within the borders of a united Germany, all those provinces of the Austrian Empire with a predominantly German speaking population (though some wished to include the whole Austrian Empire), leaving Austria the dominant German power

That war in which Prussia remained neutral thus preserving its relations with Russia, Great Britain, and France

That body which the German rulers were originally willing to accept believing it was the only way to preserve their thrones, only to turn against it once the threat had subsided

The electoral issue that divided the Prussian right-wing liberals and left-wing liberals due to debate over whether or not widening it would invite revolution

That word that could best define German liberalism, centred more on constitutional reform, in comparison to that in France, which was much more revolutionary

That social class which particularly resented the restrictions of the political systems in the German states due to their political exclusion, censorship, and the actions of the secret police

An 1860 bill to double the size of the active Prussian army, increase service from two to three years, and reduce the role of the popular but inefficient reserve (Landwehr) which was defeated by Parliament multiple times

A Marxist analysis of society in which different social classes compete with one another for political control of the state

The Prussian Finance Minister from 1825 to 1830 who extended the Prussian Customs Union and encouraged road building to circumvent the two competing German customs unions in order to facilitate political union under Prussian leadership

An 1848 plan by Prussian General Radowitz with the approval of what was to become the 'Alliance of the Three Kings' to form a federal Reich based on the Paulskirche Constitution under a Prussian emperor with a special relationship with Austria