By Urging Austria to Join Prussia in a War to Save

By urging Austria to join Prussia in a war to save the provinces of Schleswig and Holstein from Danish territorial ambitions, Bismarck shrewdly

A) engineered Prussia's establishment of the first German colonies in southwest Africa.
B) lulled Austria into believing that Prussia had no individual territorial ambitions within the greater German Confederation.
C) precipitated France's alliance with Russia, which provoked Francis Joseph into sending troops to the Franco-Austrian border, thus dividing his army in half.
D) affected Austria's political and military overextension and set the stage for an Austro-Prussian confrontation.