The Twenty Years War
The Thirty Years War was a series of European conflicts that lasted from 1618 to 1648. The battles were mainly fought in Germany. The struggle was initially based on the religious conflicts among Germans by the Protestant Reformation, but it was later influenced by other issues, including dynastic rivalries. There were four periods in the war. The Bavarian Period (1618-1625). In 1618, in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic and then part of the Holy Roman Empire) there was a Protestant Rebellion against the Habsburg Monarchy that ruled there. The Bohemian Slavs had traditionally been against the Holy Roman Empire, as previously seen in the Hussite Wars of the 15th century. The rebellion was quickly put down by Catholic forces (namely the Holy Roman Emperor-Ferdinand II) who wiped out Protestantism in Bohemia through forcible conversions and the activities of militant Jesuit missionaries. However, the Thirty Year War didn't end at this phase because outside forces kept it going. Protestants, particularly in Germany, identified with the Bohemian rebellion, and united against t
And the final phase, The French Period. Sweden's armies were still being subsidized by France, and France (on the side of the Protestants) and Spain (on side of Catholics) now took advantage of the chaos in Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, and competed with each other for territory there. This was the worst phase of the war, and the discipline in the armies disintegrated. Most members of the armies were mercenaries and only interested in looting and sacking. France and Spain were pretty evenly matched, and so the war dragged on, as neither side had the resources to win a quick, decisive victory. Finally the exhausted parties declared peace in 1648 at Westphalia. Conflict began when, on May 23, 1618, when the Protestants in Prague threw two Bohemian King Ferdinand II ministers of ministers out a window. This act was known as the Defenestration of Prague. he Holy Roman Catholic Emperor Ferdinand II. The Thirty Year War finally ended on October 24, 1648, when the Treaty of Westphalia was signed. The Treaty of Westphalia fundamentally influenced the later history of Europe. The treaty weakened
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