Edexcel History 5. The Unification of Germany II

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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

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

The alternative name for the Austro-Prussian War, given in lieu of the conflict's duration

Those three rivers that superseded the Danube in German economic importance by the 1860's thanks to Prussian state investment, in alphabetical order

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

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

The proportionally elected lower house of the German Parliament, dominated by Prussian parties, particularly the National Liberals, which could legislate and pass non-military budgets

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 customs union parliament with delegates from the North German Confederation and the four independent southern German states, intended to encourage cooperation between the two

A mostly middle class Prussian military reserve force, which could be called on during emergencies

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That country, the politics of which were dominated by agriculturalist Junkers, and industrialists from the 1840's onwards

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

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

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

That comment made by Otto von Bismarck on the foundation of the North German Confederation

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 region of which it was Otto von Bismarck's principle aim to dominate as opposed to the unification of Germany

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

A defensive alliance negotiated under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck between Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1879 for mutual defence against Russia

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