AP Euro Wars to Know

Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453)

• England VS. France

• War of Roses

French Civil Wars (1562-1594)

• Wars of Religion: 9 Wars

• St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

Thirty Years’ Wars (1562-1594)

the last of the religious wars and was mainly fought in the Holy Roman Empire

English Civil Wars (1642-1649)

Wars between Englishmen. Popular names were James I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Charles II and James II.

War of the League of Augsburg (1689-1697)

formed to ensure BOP as Louis XIV pursued expansion in his Dutch wars.

War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)

Grand Alliance forms to preserve BOP as the Spanish Habsburg king dies and leaves his territories to Louis XIV’s grandson; people believe that France will become a hegemony (England, Dutch Rep., HRE, Brandenburg. Portugal, Savoy)

War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

Pragmatic Sanction in 1713: resulted in agreement that Habsburg territories were indivisible and Habsburg lands would transfer to Habsburg rulers

Seven Years’ War (1756-1763)

Extension of War of the Austrian Succession; Austria fought Prussia over supremacy in HRE while Britain and France fought over dominance in the New World

French Revolution (1789-1799)

There are several causes for the revolution namely; Problems of the old order; Severe financial crisis; First liberal phase; 1790 constitution of Clergy; The Jacobin Republic and Reign of Terror; Closing stages; Slave Revolt and etc.

Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815)          

• War of the Second Coalition

• Slave rebellion in Haiti

• War of the Third Coalition

• The Peninsula War

• Russian Campaign

• War of the Fourth Coalition

July Revolution (1830)

Bourbon Charles X issued the July Ordinances (censorship, dissolved legislature and reduced electorate).

Revolutions of 1848

Revolutions between French throne

The Crimean War (1853-1856)

By mid-19th century it was clear that the Ottoman Empire was disintegrating. It was a military disaster and over 250,000 deaths, most of them from disease.

German Unification Wars (1866-1871)

Prussia’s victory under Bismarck gave him liberal support and dominance over German affairs which allowed his plans for a new German government controlled by Prussia to continue.

WWII (1914-1918)

• Setting the Stage for War

• MAIN (Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism)

• The Outbreak of the War

• The Great War

• Revolution

• War Ends

Russian Revolution (1917)

• under state of crisis under Nicholas II 

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Grand Alliance VS. Axis Powers

• Bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima

Cold War (1946-1991)

• Defining the Marshall Plan

• The Marshall Plan (1948-1952)

• The Economic Miracle

• Effects of Marshall Plan

• War beginnings