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The Hapsburgs are the oldest ruling house in Europe. In addition to their homeland of Austia. Over the centuries they have aquired Bohemia and Hungary.
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Nationalist ideas breakout in ot the Ottoman empire creating wars with russia leading to the "Balkan powder Keg." The Ottoman Empire is being taken apart by other nations thus giving it the name "The Sick man of Europe."
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International meeting that was called in order to remake Europe after the downfall of Napoleon I.
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Nationalist Revolts explode across the Region. Each time Austria sent in troops to kill the rebels.
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Giuseppe Mazzini founds "Young Italy."
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Nationalist Revolts Breakout and the government crushes them.
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Mazzini helps set up a revolutionary republic in Rome, but French forces soon topple it.
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Victor Emmanuel makes Count Camillo Cavour his prim minister.
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Cavour negotiates a secret deal with Napoleon, who promised to aid Sardinia in case it faces war with Austria.
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A man named Giuseppe Garbaldi a nationalist and ally of Mazzini recruits over 1,000 volunteers called the "Red Shirts."
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Victor Emmanuel II is crowned King of Italy.
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Otto Von Bismarck is Appointed Chancelor of Prussia by King William IV.
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Bismarck creates an alliance with Austria.
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Prussia and Austria seize the provinces of Schelswig and Holstian from Denmark.
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Bismarck creates an excuse to attack Austria. Creating a Austro-Prussian War lasting 7 weeks with Prussia as the victor.
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Ferenc Deak helps work out a compromise that creates a new political power known as the Dual Monarchy of Austia-Hungary.
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Napoleon III becomes enraged at Prussia and starts the Franco-Prussian War.
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German Princes gather in the glittering Hall of Mirrors at the palace of Versailles to proclaime to new German Empire.
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German nationalists celebrate the birth of the second Reich, or empire. They called it that because they considered it heir to the Holy Roman Empire.
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A Battle for Civilization begins.
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Germany's population grows to over 14 million providing a huge home market along with a larger supply of industial workers.
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The Battle for Civilization ends.
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William II succeedes his grandfather (William I) as Kaiser.
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William II asks Otto Von Bismarck to resign.
