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German Confederation
The German Confedera was an association of 39 German states in Central Europe, created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to coordinate the economies of separate German-speaking countries and to replace the former Holy Roman Empire.[ -
The New ideas
The model of diplomatic spheres of influence resulting from the Congress of Vienna in 1814–15 after the Napoleonic Wars endorsed Austrian dominance in Central Europe. -
Prosperity
By 1835, Heinrich von Gagern wrote that roads were the "veins and arteries of the body politic..." and predicted that they would promote freedom, independence and prosperity. -
The Revolutions
The widespread mainly German revolutions of 1848–49 sought unification of Germany under a single constitution. -
External expectations of a unified Germany
Other nationalists had high hopes for the German unification movement, and the frustration with lasting German unification after 1850 seemed to set the national movement back. -
Problem of Spheres
In November 1850, the Prussians specifically Radowitz and Frederick William agreed to the restoration of the German Confederation under Austrian leadership. -
Military operations
Napoleon III had tried to secure territorial concessions from both sides before and after the Austro-Prussian War, but despite his role as mediator during the peace negotiations but French armies and advanced on the primary city of Metz and the French capital of Paris. They captured Napoleon III and took an entire army as prisoners at Sedan on 1 September 1870. -
The unification of Germany
The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state -
