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After the Battle of Sadowa, Bismark bows to the pressure of the more hawkish elements of the Prussian General Staff. He decides to incorporate Austria and Bohemia Moravia into the new Germany, while mobilising the support of the irredentist elements in that Empire by backing the establishment of an independent Hungary. How would the other European powers have reacted? Would the dissolution of the Habsburg monarchy and its Balkan aspirations have resulted in a much more peaceful twentieth century?
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