The Thirty Years War
This event in 1618 triggered the Bohemian Phase of the Thirty Years’ War
What is Defenestration of Prague.
The Peace of Westphalia consisted of treaties signed in these two German cities.
Where are Münster and Osnabrück?
This document, adopted on 4 July 1776, formally announced the independence of the thirteen American colonies from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This 1814–1815 conference was held after Napoleon’s defeat to restore political stability and reorganize Europe.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
This nickname was given to the wave of uprisings that spread across Europe in 1848.
What is the “Springtime of Nations”?
This Catholic power entered the Thirty Years’ War on the anti-Habsburg side in 1635, transforming the conflict into an increasingly wider European power struggle.
Where is France?
This branch of Protestant Christianity was formally recognized alongside Catholicism and Lutheranism in the religious settlement of 1648.
What is Calvinism?
This 1783 treaty formally ended the American Revolutionary War and saw Britain recognize American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This victorious power received much of Poland as part of the territorial settlements reached at Vienna.
Where is Russia?
This territory sought autonomy from Austrian rule during the Revolutions of 1848.
Where is Hungary?
These two territories were formally recognized as independent in the settlement that ended the Thirty Years’ War.
What are the United Provinces and Switzerland?
This territory was among the gains made by France in the territorial settlement that ended the Thirty Years’ War.
Where is Alsace?
This French thinker argued for the separation of executive, legislative, and judicial powers in The Spirit of the Laws.
Who is Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu?
Under this principle, the victorious powers received territorial gains as compensation for their sacrifices during the Napoleonic Wars.
What is the Principle of Compensation?
The Revolutions of 1848 were driven by this ideology, which demanded constitutional government and representative institutions, and another force that demanded national self-government, independence and political unification. Name the ideology
What is Liberalism?
This Swedish monarch became the leading Protestant military figure during Sweden's intervention in the Thirty Years’ War.
Who is Gustavus Adolphus?
The Peace of Westphalia weakened this centuries-old political entity by giving greater autonomy to its German princes.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
This South American revolutionary leader was known as “The Liberator” and led independence movements in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This principle of the Congress of Vienna called for the restoration of royal families removed from power by Napoleon.
What is the Principle of Legitimacy?
Although the Revolutions of 1848 largely failed in the short term, nationalist movements eventually contributed to the unification of this country in 1871.
What is Germany?
This sequence correctly identifies the four major phases of the Thirty Years’ War in chronological order.
What are the Bohemian, Danish, Swedish and Franco-Swedish Phases?
These three European countries are given in the course material as examples of modern nation-states that emerged as nationalism developed during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Where are France, Germany, and Italy?
This social group occupied the highest position in the Spanish and Portuguese colonial hierarchy but was generally excluded from the highest colonial offices because they were born in the Americas.
Who are the Creoles?
This French diplomat represented France at Vienna and was one of the major participants in the negotiations alongside Metternich of Austria, Alexander I of Russia and Count Castlereagh of Great Britain.
Who is Charles Maurice de Talleyrand?
The conservative European order created after Napoleon was challenged in 1848 by uprisings in France, Austria, the German states, Italy and Hungary. This diplomatic system had originally been created by the powers at Vienna to preserve stability, prevent revolutions and maintain the balance of power.
What is the Concert of Europe?