Edexcel History 5. The Unification of Germany II

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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 Prussia annexed Hanover, Schleswig-Holstein, Hesse-Cassel, Nassau, and Frankfurt

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

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

A state or provincial parliament as in Prussia

Practical and technical focussed secondary schools in Prussia that proved effective in producing highly skilled and well trained scientists and engineers, aiding industrialisation

An 1867 crisis in which Otto von Bismarck - after nationalist pressure - objected to Luxembourg's purchase from the Netherlands by France, nearly leading to war, after which Napoleon III backed down

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

That which dissolved in 1867 over a split between left liberals and nationalist liberals resulting from the peace terms of the Austro-Prussian War

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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That war in which Austria allied with Prussia so as to quash nationalism and prevent Prussia from growing to powerful

Chief of Staff of the Prussian and later German army who led the successful campaigns against Austria and France in 1866 and 1870-71 respectively

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

The two cities in which Otto von Bismarck was ambassador before becoming Minister President of Prussia, chronologically

That house which Napoleon III and French Foreign Minister Gramont demanded William I renounce in perpetuity its rights to the Spanish succession

A siege during the Franco Prussian War from September 1870 to January 1871 after which the French revolutionary government surrendered due to starvation and the defeat of all newly raised provincial armies in the field

Those two most significant countries, Prussia's railway network was superior to by the 1860's and 70's, in alphabetical order

The factor by which Prussian pig-iron production increased from 1850 to 1870

Those three rivers that superseded the Danube in German economic importance by the 1860's thanks to Prussian state investment, in alphabetical order

A short lived 1862-67 French client state that collapsed under opposition military pressure leading to a humiliation for Napoleon III