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Gustavus Adolphus
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King of Sweden who had created the most modern army of the time. He was ideally suited to be the Protestant champion
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Duke of Wallenstein
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Commissioned by the Emperor Ferdinand to raise a private army and fight back against the King of Denmark, which he defeated.
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King Christian of Denmark
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Took the lead in Protestant affairs, was also the Duke of Holstein (a state of the Holy Roman Empire). He fought against Wallenstein and was defeated.
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Bohemia
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The Czech region of central Europe, where the Thirty Years' War began.
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defenestration of Prague
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When the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Matthias sent two emmissaries to the Bohemians, they threw them out of the window. The event would later become known as this.
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battle of White Mountain
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Where Ferdinand overwhelmed the Bohemians in 1620 with support from the pope, Spanish troops from Milan, and the forces of Catholic Bavaria
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Edict of Restitution
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An attempt by Ferdinand to restore the religious and territorial conditions of the Peace of Augsburg
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Peace of Westphalia
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Actually two treaties, of Munster and Osnabruck, and signed in 1648. Blocked the Counter Reformation, frustrated the Austrian Habsburgs, and forestalled for almost two centuries any movement toward German national unification
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raison d'etat
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A national interest or a country's ambitions
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