Ka cika wannan jumlar: A shekara ta 1740, Sarki Frederick II (Frederick Mai Girma) ya hau gadon sarauta. Ta amfani da hujja na yarjejeniyar 1537 (wanda Sarkin sarakuna Ferdinand I ya hana), wanda sassan Silesia zasu wuce zuwa Brandenburg bayan mutuwar daular Piast mai mulki, Frederick ya mamaye Silesia, ta haka ne ya fara yakin War of Austrian Succession (1740-48). A shekara ta 1744, Frederick ya sake mamayewa don ya hana ɗaukar fansa da kuma da'awar, a wannan lokacin, lardin Bohemia. Ya gaza, amma matsin lamba na Faransa a kan abokiyar Ostiryia ta Biritaniya ta haifar da jerin yarjejeniyoyi da sasantawa, wanda ya ƙare a cikin yarjejeniyar Aix-la-Chapelle ta 1748 wanda ya dawo da zaman lafiya kuma ya bar Prussia da yawancin Silesia. Lokacin da Frederick ya mamaye Saxony da Bohemia a cikin 'yan watanni a cikin 1756-57, ya fara yakin shekaru bakwai. Wannan yaƙin ya kasance gwagwarmayar gwagwarmaya ga sojojin Prussian, kuma gaskiyar cewa ya yi nasara ya yi yaƙi da yawancin Turai don nuna shaidar da ke nuna kwarewar soja na Frederick. Halin ya zama mai tsanani har zuwa mutuwar Empress Elizabeth na Rasha (mu'ujiza na gidan Brandenburg). Shigar da Prussophile Peter III ya sauƙaƙa matsin lamba a gabashin gabashin. Kashe sojojin Austriya a
Yaƙin Burkersdorf da kuma dogaro da ci gaba da nasarar Birtaniyya a kan Faransa a fagen yaƙin mulkin mallaka, Prussia a ƙarshe ta sami damar tilasta "status quo ante bellum" a nahiyar. Wannan sakamakon ya tabbatar da babban rawar da Prussia ke takawa a cikin jihohin Jamus kuma ya kafa ƙasar a matsayin babbar ƙasa ta Turai. Wannan ya ba da farawa ga kishiya tsakanin Prussia da Austria don jagorancin Jamus, wanda ake kira Dualism na Jamus.