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Edexcel History 5. The Unification of Germany II

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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
Luxembourg
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)
Peace of Prague
That which dissolved in 1867 over a split between left liberals and nationalist liberals resulting from the peace terms of the Austro-Prussian War
Deutscher Nationalverein
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
Deutscher Nationalverein
That comment made by Otto von Bismarck on the foundation of the North German Confederation
'We have done enough for our generation'
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
German Unification
That country, the politics of which were dominated by agriculturalist Junkers, and industrialists from the 1840's onwards
Prussia
The dominant sector of the Austria economy through the 1850's
Agriculture
The alternative name for the Austro-Prussian War, given in lieu of the conflict's duration
Seven Weeks War
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
Prussian-Italian Alliance
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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
Ems Telegram
A war in which Prussia defeated numerically superior Austria due to technological superiority and Austrian tactical blunders
Austro-Prussian War
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
Reichstag
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
Convention of Gastein
That which Otto von Bismarck embraced in the late 1850's so as to manipulate it to further Prussian power
German Nationalism
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
Biarritz Meeting
A dominant German party formed in 1867 after splitting from the German Progress Party which was much more cooperative with Otto von Bismarck
National Liberal Party
The factor by which steam engines operating in Prussia outnumbered those operating in Austria by 1865
Four-fold
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
Bill of Indemnity
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
Zollparlament
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