HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Council of Trent enforcing Catholic doctrine.
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conflict between Protestants and Catholics.
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political conflict between the pope and Catholic leaders.
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Hapsburg family’s support of the Protestant Reformation.
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Detailed explanation-1: -England, Denmark, and the Dutch Republic helped the Protestants. Among the Thirty Years War series was the Battle of Breitenfeld of 1631, fought in Germany. It was the first significant victory of the Protestants against the Catholics.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a result of the Treaty of Westphalia, the Netherlands gained independence from Spain, Sweden gained control of the Baltic and France was acknowledged as the preeminent Western power. The power of the Holy Roman Emperor was broken and the German states were again able to determine the religion of their lands.
Detailed explanation-3: -No longer able to tolerate the encirclement of two major Habsburg powers on its borders, Catholic France entered the Thirty Years’ War on the side of the Protestants to counter the Habsburgs and bring the war to an end.