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Dates
Important Events
Term | Definition |
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Peace of Augsburg 1555 | ended religious war between catholics and lutherans in german states. prices given right the decide religion in state |
Council of Trent 1545 | reformed catholic church: seven sacrements, forbade clerical marriage, papacy center of Christianity |
Edict of Nantes 1598 | religious toleration to French Protestants |
Peace of Westphalia 1648 | ended 30 year's war. recognized calvinists |
Peace of Utrecht 1713 | ended Louis 14 attempts to dominate europe. forbade the union of spain and france under the same monarch |
Pragmatic Sanction 1713 | guaranteed the succession of Maria Theresa to Habsburg throne |
Berlin Conference 1884 | rules for dividing Africa by Bismarck |
Treaty of Versailles 1919 | forced germany a war-guilt and payments of war reparations. divided Austria-Hungary, created the league of nations to settle disputes |
The Congress of Vienna 1815 | kept france form shifting the balance of power. return to the previous borders. underestimated the nationalist calls by the French Rev, a balance of power until 1848 |
Kellogg-briand pact 1928 | outlawed war as a national policy |
Munich Conference 1938 | Sudetenland to Hitler, british policy of appeasement |
Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact 1939 | agreement between hitler and stalin. the promise to remain neutral if the other becomes involved in war. division of eastern Europe between German and Soviet zones |
North Atlantic Pact (NATO) 1949 | Truman doctrine of containment. establishment of NATO for a defense system of its members |
Treaty of Romes 1957 | European Economic Community (EEC) the common market |
Maastricht treaty 1991 | European Union, largest economic market, central bank |