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The significance of the _______________ is that it put Prussia back in a leadership position in the German confederation and made Austria a follower of Prussia for the first time.

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the 1860s, Otto von Bismarck, then Minister President of Prussia, provoked three short, decisive wars against Denmark, Austria, and France, aligning the smaller German states behind Prussia in its defeat of France. In 1871 he unified Germany into a nation-state, forming the German Empire.

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