Austrian Decline in the 1850s

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Anya Pitt

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  • 1848 Revolts

    Revolts that led to Austrian political leadership of the German Confederation declining in the 1850s
  • Focused on maintaining the integrity of its own empire after the 1848 Revolts, Austrian political leadership of the German Confederation declined in the 1850s
  • Prussia, industrialising quicker than Austria, continued to block their membership of the Zollverein & Austria's alternative scheme failed to win support in the south in 1851
  • Austria alienated itself culturally from many German Protestants & liberals by signing the Concordat with the Pope in 1855
  • Austria angered Russia in 1856 by threatening to fight them in the Crimean War
  • Austria suffered an expensive defeat to France during the 1859 Second War of Italian Unification