2. How did Bismarck bring about Austria’s defeat of 1866?
Following the end of the 1848 revolutions, Austria was able to reassert its control and to restore the bund under its leadership. However, the growing economic dominance of Prussia in the next decades, was to ensure that Prussia would emerge dominant by 1866. The key minister of Prussia was Bismarck who was to become the main architect of German unification. Why did Prussia come to dominate Germany? While Prussia was...