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German Unification (Austro-Prussian War (Causes (Outcomes (Sources…

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        Nationalism and unpopular rulers contributed to this war. Prussia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary were the largest countries in the Empire that were left and this war resulted as a search for a new highest power
      - Key People
        
        War Minister Albrecht Graf von Roon and Chief of the General Staff Helmuth Graf von Moltke
      - Prussia gains Hanover, Schleswig, Hesse-Kassel, Nassau, Frankfurt, and parts of Bavaria
        Italy gains all of Venetia and part of Friuli
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        German victory, resulting in the Treaty of Frankfurt and the formation of the French Third Republic, also the beginning of the Franco-German enmity
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        Prussian Force: William I, Otto von Bismarck, Crown Prince Friedrich Prince Friedrich Karl, Albrecht von Roon
        French Force: Napoleon III, François A. Bazaine, Patrice de MacMahon, Louis Jules Trochu
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        First War; Danish victory, Denmark retained control of Schleswig-Holstein
        Second War; Austro-Prussian victory, resulting in the Treaty of Vienna and, Denmark surrenders control over Schleswig, Holstein, and Laurenburg
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        Commanders Hans Hedemann, Frederik Læssøe
        
        Commanders on opposing sides were Otto von Bismarck, Friedrich Graf von Wrangel Franz Joseph I, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, and Christian IX Ditlev Gothard Monrad Christian, Albrecht Bluhme Christian Julius de Meza, George Daniel Gerlach
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        Legacy
        
        He is still considered one of the most significant political figures of the political structure of Modern Germany. His contribution and decades of work in shaping the modern German State as Minister President and Imperial Chancellor of Prussia. He helped turn Germany into a major European power through military victories and conservative politics.
      - Origin
        
        After his mother's death in 1839, he was freed from the boring civil service life to help his father's financial struggles. It was during this time that he met and married Johanna von Puttkamer and went through areligious conversion because of Johanna's conservative family. 2/2
        
        His father was a fifth-generation Junker, or Prussian noble, and his mother's family were successful academics and government ministers. He was taught in the Plamann Institute in Berlin and later he studied law at the University of Gottingen, but he eventually entered into the Prussian civil service after not proving to be a promising enough student. 1/2
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