The Myth of Unified European Identity (1648-1948): Ideologies and War.

By emily.demers
  • Period: to

    from the Peace of Wetphalia to the beginning of the Cold War

    Europe's failed treaties and continuous warfare

  • Treaty of Westphalia: Confessionalized Europe

    Treaty of Westphalia: Confessionalized Europe
    Web Gallery of Art TERBORCH, Gerard
    The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster, 15 May 1648
    1648
    Oil on copper, 46 x 60 cm
    Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

  • Defining Europe's boudaries.

    Defining Europe's boudaries.
    Web Gallery of Art
    Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia WERFF, Pieter van der
    Portrait of Peter the Great
    1690s
    Oil on canvas, 56 x 50 cm
    The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

  • Europe Redrawn After the Napoleonic Wars

    Europe Redrawn After the Napoleonic Wars
    wikimedia
    Congress of Vienna

  • The Rise of Nationalism: German Unification

    The Rise of Nationalism: German Unification
    Fordam Internet History Sourcebooks
    Proclamation of German Unification under Kaiser Wilhelm I

  • European Competition Explodes: The Great War 1914-1918

    European Competition Explodes: The Great War 1914-1918
    British Navy Ships History
    Photo #: NH 61005
    HMS Dreadnought (British Battleship, 1906) Photographed circa early 1907, while serving as a flagship. U.S. Naval History & Heritage Command Photograph

  • The Paris Peace Conference's Failure: Europe in War Again

    The Paris Peace Conference's Failure: Europe in War Again
    Art Institute of Chicago
    Racialization and The Rise of Totalitarian Regimes German Anti-Semitic Propaganda Poster
    Artist unknown (German).
    The Universal Plague, 1944.
    Offset lithograph; 81.3 x 66 cm.