CAUSES OF THE WAR

1. RESENTMENT ON THE PART OF LOCAL PRINCES

2. UNRESOLVED CONFLICT BETWEEN PROTESTANT

HAPSBURG- VALOIS RIVALRY AND FEAR OF HAPSBURG DOMINACE

FOUR PHASES

• Bohemian phase
• Danish phase
• Swedish phase
• Franco-Swedish phase

IMPORTANT PEOPLE

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS

• Protestant of Sweden
• Drove the Hapsburg armies out of northern germany
• He was killed in a battle in 1632

CARDINAL RICHELLEU AND CARDINAL MAZAIRN OF FRANCE

• Dominated the remaining years of war
• Feared the hapsburg more than protestant

HAPSBURG FAMILY

• Future Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II, was head of the hapsburg
• Hapsburg armies from Austria and spain crushed the troops hired by protestant
• They defeated the german protestants who had supported the Czech.
• Ferdinand II paid his army of 125,000 men by allowing them to plunder, or rob, german villages

THE EFFECTS OF THE WAR

EFFECTS

• Peace of westphalia allowed local rulers to dictate religon
• Holy Roman Empire can no longer make laws, collect taxes.
• Devastation of holy roman empire
• " German militarism" under prusian leadership
• " military revolution" of Gustavus Adolphus