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How did Fredrick II of Prussia initiate conflict and break ties with Austria?

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Frederick II took the throne on May 31, 1740, and immediately launched an unprovoked attack on the Austrian region of Silesia (in what is now southwestern Poland), triggering the eight-year War of Austrian Succession.

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