1400-1648
He protected Martin Luther during the Diet of Worms
Who is Fredrick of Saxony?
He stood against Napoleon, destroyed castles, and set up the intendent system.
Who is Cardinal Richelieu?
Otto von Bismarck used this Machiavellian principle to unify Germany
What is Realpolitik?
The assassination of this man kicked off WWI
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This invention helped the new ideas spread during the Reformation
What is the Printing Press
This event led to the outbreak of the 30 years war.
Defenestration of Prague
The author of the Prince
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
He would become head of the Committee of Public Safety in France until his execution.
Who is Robespierre?
After Cavour and Garibaldi met, he was crowned king of Italy in 1861
Who is Victor Emanuel II
This president of the US and premier of the USSR were in power during Detente
Who are Nixon and Brezhnev?
He came up with the heliocentric model
Who is Copernicus?
These two monarchs took power after the relatively peaceful Glorious Revolution.
Castiglione wrote this book on the perfect Renaissance man.
What is the Courtier?
He spent time in Fredrick the Great's Court, encouraging freedom of speech and religion.
Who is Voltaire?
The Triple Alliance formed by Bismarck was an attempt to put him in the majority of three and consisted of which three countries?
Italy, Germany, and Austria Hungary.
This policy was put in place to try to avoid a second World War
What is appeasement?
The official religion of the enlightenment
This leader of France was elected president just to later declare himself emperor.
Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)
After the death of Henry VIII's son Edward VI, she came to power and burned Protestants at the stake in hopes of bringing England back to Catholocism.
Who is Mary Tudor or Bloody Mary?
Passed by Napoleon Bonaparte, it settled problems previously made by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
What is the Concordat of 1801?
Besides Greece, this was the only other country to have a successful revolution in the 1830s
What is Belgium?
The father of macroeconomics
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
What is said to drive a market economy
What is profit
This night marks the beginning of the violence of the Holocaust
Kristallnacht
This religion was not recognized at the Peace of Augsburg and would have to wait until the Peace of Westphalia before it would become an acceptable religion.
What is Calvinism?
At Trafalgar, this Lord Admiral saved the British from the invasions of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Who is Horatio Nelson?
Marx and Engel followed the teachings of this German Philosophe
Who is Hegel?
This was the policy implemented in the 1980s to help the USSR economically restructure
What is Perestroika?
Who is Montesquieu?
This man committed the assination that ignited World War I.
Gavrilo Princip