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Edexcel History 5. The Unification of Germany II

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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
Zollparlament
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
Treaty of Frankfurt
The name which many consider might more accurately be given to the Franco-Prussian War
Franco-German War
A state or provincial parliament as in Prussia
Landtag
Those three rivers that superseded the Danube in German economic importance by the 1860's thanks to Prussian state investment, in alphabetical order
Elbe, Oder, and Rhine
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 geographic feature which was key to the Austrian economy
River Danube
The four states aside from Austria that were not members of the North German Confederation, in alphabetical order
Baden, Bavaria, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Württemberg
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
The principal treaty - signed on the 23rd August 1866 - that ended the Austro Prussian War
Peace of Prague
The factor by which Prussian pig-iron production increased from 1850 to 1870
Six-fold
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 Prussian Minister-President who relaxed the use of censorship, instead publishing government friendly articles to counter critical ones
Otto von Manteuffel
A canal linking the North Sea at Tönning and Baltic Sea at Kiel via Schleswig-Holstein, considered economically important to the Prussians
Eider Canal
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
General Helmuth von Moltke (1800 - 1891)
The two cities in which Otto von Bismarck was ambassador before becoming Minister President of Prussia, chronologically
St. Petersburg and Paris
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
The alternative name for the Austro-Prussian War, given in lieu of the conflict's duration
Seven Weeks War
A federal union of northern German states under Prussian domination, existing from 1867 - 71
North German Confederation
The decisive engagement of the Austro-Prussian War in which Prussia defeated Austria causing the latter to sue for peace lest Vienna fall and the empire potentially dissolve
Battle of Könnigrätz
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