... Bismarck now finally had his motive for war and Prussia (together with Italy in the south) attacked Austria (supported by Saxony, Hanover, Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Cassel and Nassau). Prussia was able to achieve a straightforward success, due to its superior military equipment, its road and rail network, its larger force and because Austria had to fight a two ... -front war. The war was over with the treaty of Prague in August 1866, and Prussia formed all German territories north of the river Main into a North German Confederation from which Austria was excluded...

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... to the clumsy and incautious way that the French government handled the issue as it was to Bismarck's planning and actions. However Bismarck's planning and actions did bring about another milestone in the road to unification, as it united the divided north and south and made people think that if there was a military alliance then why not have a political one as well. France declared war on Prussia ... after Bismarck had altered an account of a meeting between the French Ambassador and Wilhelm I was altered and published in ... but it doesn't mean he was going to war to try and achieve ...

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... had fought 25 duels thus giving him the name "The Iron Junker". While the Habsburg was weakened by the revolutions of 1848, Prussia took these years to develop into a great power. As he had planned the war ahead, he tried to develop Industrial infrastructure for the military of Prussia. Bismarck played a smart trick about making rail road links between the countries as well as borders. He ensured ... that all borders were connected with rail roads, as it would be of primary importance in future for a war. Militarily, Prussia was in a good health condition. The invention of a "field-gun ...

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... regular elections. Why would he surrender his power? The problem is-and this certainly is one of Biz's domestic policy failures-that the existence of a toothless liberal party in Germany meant that too much power was concentrated into too few hands. Further down the road, where will the liberals be when Germany faces the elimination of liberty and justice? What if someone ... comes along and promises to meet the "expectation" of a return to German greatness, the destruction of the "Versailles System" (where the Slavs dominated Easter Europe) and the military and industrial build-up that ...

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