. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . the same time Bismarck nego-tiated a treaty with Italy who wascarrying out the unification of herterritory. According to this treatyItaly was to win Venetia from Aus-tria whilst Prussia was to attackAustria from the north. Italy wasbeaten but Bismarck was true to hisally and insisted that Austria cedeVenetia to her. The smaller German states allhelped Austria. Prussia was there-fore fighting against great odds,since the population of the statesarrayed against her was three timesas great as her own. So excellent,however, was the reorganize
. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . the same time Bismarck nego-tiated a treaty with Italy who wascarrying out the unification of herterritory. According to this treatyItaly was to win Venetia from Aus-tria whilst Prussia was to attackAustria from the north. Italy wasbeaten but Bismarck was true to hisally and insisted that Austria cedeVenetia to her. The smaller German states allhelped Austria. Prussia was there-fore fighting against great odds,since the population of the statesarrayed against her was three timesas great as her own. So excellent,however, was the reorganized Prus-sian army that a brilliant campaignof only seven weeks brought thesmaller German states and Austria toterms. The genius of von Moltke,who was chief of the Prussian gen-eral staff, proved itself in this great battle of Sadowa orKoniggratz, fought on the third ofJuly, 1866, opened the way to Viennaand was soon followed by the Treatyof Prague. The terms imposed upon Austriawere very moderate. Bismarck onlywished to have Austria step out of. NORTHERN EUROPE (From The Navy, Washington, September, 1914) GERMANY IN SOCIAL-POLITICAL EVOLUTION Germany and allow Prussia to haveher way in carrying out her Germanprogram. He took none of her landsfrom her but simply made her paythe expenses of the war. She wasalso required to cede Venetia to had every reason to bethankful for the self-restraint andgenerosity which Prussia had shownand after a few years had so far for-gotten her animosity that she wasready to form an alliance with North-Gei-man Confederation. Again Bismarcks policy had tri-umphed. A great stride was nowtaken in the direction of German uni-fication. Prussia in 1867 gatheredaround her all the German statesnorth of the Main River. This union,already bound together by the eco-nomic freedom of the ZoUverein, in-cluded 21 states. It was called theNorth German Confederation andadded a population of over five mil-lions to that of Prussia. Wh
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