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

MANY PEOPLE/COUNTRIES PARTICIPATED AND DIED IN THIS WAR

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

BOHEMIAN PHASE

• Defenstration of Prague (May 1618)
• Ferdinard was declared deposed and Bohemian throne was offered to Ferderick V
• Revolt also appeared in othe Hapsburg dominions

DANISH PHASE

• Started after Bohemia was defeated
• Christian IV signed the Treaty of Lubeck(1929)
• Emperor Ferdinand issued the Edict of Restitution

SWEDISH PHASE

• The new Protestant leader became King Gustavus Adolphus of sweden
• France entered the war against th Hapsburg.

FRANCO SWEDISH PHASE

• The Catholic French were now supporting the Protestant Swedes against the Catholic Hapsburg of Germany and Spain
• Ended with Peace of Westphalia