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Muntone, Stephanie. European History Demystified®. US: McGraw-Hill Education, 2012.

European History Demystified®

Authors: Stephanie Muntone

Published:  2012

ISBN: 9780071754217 0071754210
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  • Contents
  • How to Use This Book
  • Introduction
  • Part I Early Modern Europe: The Renaissance to the Seventeenth Century
  • CHAPTER 1 The Renaissance, 1350–1517
  • The Renaissance
  • The Renaissance in Italy
  • The Black Death
  • The Church in the Renaissance
  • Politics and the Economy
  • Michelangelo
  • The Perfection of Printing
  • Humanism
  • CHAPTER 2 The Reformation, 1455–1600
  • Causes of the Reformation
  • Martin Luther
  • John Calvin
  • Henry VIII and the Church of England
  • The Counter-Reformation
  • CHAPTER 3 Early Czarist Russia, 1380–1613
  • The Grand Principality of Muscovy
  • Russian Society and Government
  • The End of Tatar Rule
  • Ivan III
  • Ivan IV
  • The Fall of Ivan IV
  • Time of Troubles
  • CHAPTER 4 Europe to 1618
  • Spain
  • Spain in the 1500s
  • Philip II and the Fall of Spain
  • The Holy Roman Empire
  • England and the Triumph of Protestantism
  • Queen Elizabeth
  • The Defeat of the Armada
  • CHAPTER 5 The Thirty Years’ War, 1618–1648
  • Thirty Years’ War
  • Bohemian War, 1618–1620
  • Swedish War, 1630–1634
  • Franco-Swedish War, 1635–1648
  • Results of the Thirty Years’ War
  • CHAPTER 6 The Age of Monarchy
  • Louis XIV
  • England
  • Peter the Great of Russia
  • Poland
  • The Holy Roman Empire: Austria and Prussia
  • The Netherlands
  • CHAPTER 7 The Age of Expansion, Exploration, and Colonization, 1492–1787
  • Exploration to the East
  • Exploration to the West
  • PART I EXAM
  • Part II Seventeenth-Century Scientifi c Revolution to 1900
  • CHAPTER 8 The Scientifi c Revolution and the Enlightenment, 1543–1789
  • The Scientifi c Revolution
  • Major Figures of the Scientific Revolution
  • The Enlightenment (The Age of Reason)
  • Major Thinkers of the Enlightenment
  • CHAPTER 9 The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, 1789–1815
  • Major Causes of the French Revolution
  • The Estates General
  • Toward a New Government
  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
  • The First Republic
  • The Terror
  • The Rise of Napoleon
  • Napoleon Rules France
  • Napoleon’s Military Career
  • The End of the Napoleonic Era
  • The Congress of Vienna
  • CHAPTER 10 The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
  • The Industrial Revolution Begins in Britain
  • Changes in Farming
  • Changes in the Textile Industry
  • The Industrial Revolution on the Continent
  • Labor Relations
  • CHAPTER 11 European Revolutions, 1815–1849
  • Political Parties and Struggles
  • Nation-States in the Nineteenth Century: The Great Powers and the Holy Alliance
  • The Minor Nations and States
  • The Romantic Movement
  • CHAPTER 12 Empires of Eastern Europe: Austria-Hungary and Russia to 1914
  • Austria: From Kingdom to Empire
  • The Russian Empire
  • CHAPTER 13 German and Italian Unifi cation, 1815–1871
  • The Unifi cation of Italy
  • The Unifi cation of Germany
  • CHAPTER 14 World Trade and Empires, 1839–1914
  • India
  • China and Southeast Asia
  • The Takeover of Africa
  • PART II EXAM
  • Part III Twentieth-Century European History
  • CHAPTER 15 The Great War (World War I) and Its Aftermath, 1914–1919
  • Buildup to the War
  • The Outbreak of War
  • The Schlieff en Plan and the Western Front
  • The War at Sea
  • The Eastern Front
  • The End of the War
  • The Terms of the Peace
  • The War’s Impact on Europe
  • CHAPTER 16 Revolution in Russia: 1917 to the Eve of World War II
  • The Russian Revolution
  • The Russian Civil War
  • Russia and the Soviet Union under Lenin
  • Stalin
  • Communism Elsewhere in Europe
  • CHAPTER 17 Italy—The Rise of Totalitarianism, 1919–1939
  • Italy—The Rise of Fascism
  • Germany—Hitler and the Nazis Seize Power
  • Spain and the Spanish Civil War
  • The Rise of Totalitarianism in Other European Nations
  • CHAPTER 18 World War II, 1939–1945
  • 1933: The Beginning of German Aggression
  • 1940: The Fall of France and the Battle of Britain
  • The Eastern Front
  • North Africa and the Italian Front
  • The Western Front
  • The End of the War
  • Results of the War
  • The United Nations
  • CHAPTER 19 The Cold War, 1945–1968
  • The Cold War in Eastern Europe
  • International Organizations
  • Rebuilding Europe
  • Cold War Confl icts
  • CHAPTER 20 The Fall of Communism, 1945–1989
  • Soviet Leadership After Stalin
  • The Gorbachev Era
  • The Cold War Ends in Europe
  • The Breakup of the Soviet Union
  • The European Union
  • PART III EXAM
  • FINAL EXAM
  • Afterword: Europe Since the Cold War
  • Answer Key
  • Bibliography and Sources for Further Reading
  • Index