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19 Cards in this Set
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Medieval Europe of Nations |
476-1789 AD |
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Modern Europe of Nations |
1789-1945 AD |
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Supranationalism |
1945-present |
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Fall of Rome |
476 AD |
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Failed Frankish Union of Charlemagne |
800-843 AD |
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Reconquista |
711 - 1492 AD |
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Norman Conquest of England |
1066 AD (William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, conquers England and becomes the king of England as well as the Duke of Normandy.) |
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100 Years' War |
1337 - 1453 AD. France vs. England |
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Reformation and Religious Wars |
1517-1648 |
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Great Northern War |
1700-1722 Peter the Great forces Russia into the Europe of Nations. |
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French Revolution |
1789-99 French reject absolute monarchy for Democratic Socialism. Democratic socialism eventually becomes the norm in Europe. |
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Napoleonic Wars |
1799-1815 Napoleon briefly unites Europe under French rule. His conquest creates more enmity between the nations, and introduces the rest of Europe to National Socialism. |
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Franco-Prussian War |
1870-71 Bismarck conquers the French and declares the German Empire. Germany is unified and it, not France, will remain the dominant force in European history to today. |
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WWI |
1914-19 Catastrophic war leads Europe to abolish monarchy and replace it with National Democratic Socialism. Leads directly to WWII |
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WWII |
1939-45 National Democratic Socialism nearly destroys Europe (Nazis.) Europe saved by U.S, realizes that it must find a new way to order Europe |
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NATO |
1949 Military alliance led by U.S. formed to protect Europe from communist Russia. Only under this protection is Europe able to work toward supranationalism. |
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European Coal and Steel Community |
1951 Prototype for supranationalism. France, West Germany, and Italy among a few others make their coal and steel industries subject to supranational oversight, to stop any nation for making preparations for war. |
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Fall of the Berlin Wall / Reunification of Germany |
1989/90 With the fall of the Soviet Union, now not just Western Europe but all of Eastern Europe as well can be joined in a supranational union. |
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European Union |
1993 Europe formally forms a supranational union of its nations, subordinating the national differences to the greater perspective that all Europe's people European. |
