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Russian expansion in Asia was also frustrated. At its eastern borders, Russia struggled with newly-modernized Japan over control northeastern China and the Korean Peninsula. The unexpected Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) announced the rise of Japan as a primary world power. Following the Napoleonic Wars, the patchwork of German states (of which Austria and Prussia were the strongest) were grouped into an alliance termed the German Confederation. A contest ensued between Austria and Prussia to lead the union of the Confederation into a single German nation. This struggle culminated in the Austro-Prussian War (1866), from which Prussia emerged victorious. Prussia was then attacked by France, which hoped to prevent the rise of a unified Germany; the resulting Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) also ended in Prussian victory.
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