... on the twenty-third of July in the form of an ultimatum to Serbia to accept and meet ten demands set forth by the Austrian government. The Austrians demanded a response within forty-eight hours. When the ultimatum was not, in the eyes of the Austrians, fully complied with ... state for foreign affairs, offers a sound summation of what the fifth point entails: Demand No. 5 might mean that the Austro-Hungarian Government were to be entitled to appoint officials who should have authority in Servian territory and this would hardly be consistent with the maintenance of independent ... monar...

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... , and Britain might interfere with Prussia. Bismarck issued a joint demand with Austria in January of 1864 which demanded Denmark to restore Schleswig-Holstein's status-quo. With Denmark's refusal, the Austrian-Prussian army invaded Holstein and overtook it. They later invaded Schleswig too and defeated the Danish army. Because of Denmark's refusal to compromise and that Denmark's stance in the matter ... of April. The agreement ended ninety days later because the Italians "did not trust" Bismarck. (5) Bismarck simply waited for Austria to provoke the war. On June 1, 1866, Habsburg, an Au...

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... had. Prior to Bismarck's chancellorship, he served as the Prussian representative in the Frankfurt Diet of the German Confederation. As his popularity grew through the Prussian government, he became ambassador to Russia, and shortly after he became the ambassador to Paris. This was his last job prior to him being appointed to the position ... This leadership would come from Prussia, with Otto von Bismarck at the wheel. Once appointed Chancellor of Prussia, Bismarck immediately took an arbitrary role in the government by dismissing the chamber, imposing taxes, and setting himself to the t...

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... not only rigorous in his domestic, but also in his foreign policies, he knew, that to unite Germany under Prussia, he had to eliminate Austrian influence. In order to do this he had to secure the alliance or the neutrality of all other continental powers. The first opportunity to do ... come to help, because it was still the head of the German Confederation and a lack of concern in this case would probably cause further Austrian separation from the German states. After the war, Prussia stayed in control of Schleswig and Austria remained in the southern Holstein, which posed the ... b...

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