AUSTRIAN History
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Chapter 1. Historical Setting
THE ALPINE-DANUBIAN REGION BEFORE THE HABSBURG DYNASTY
The Celtic and Roman Eras
The Early Medieval Era
The Holy Roman Empire and the Duchy of Austria
RISE OF THE HABSBURG EMPIRE
The Habsburg Dynasty in the Late Medieval Era
Territorial Expansion, Division, and Consolidation
The Protestant Reformation in the Habsburg Lands
The Turkish Threat
THE COUNTER-REFORMATION AND THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR
Division and Rebellion
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-48
The Peace of Westphalia
THE BAROQUE ERA
Political and Religious Consolidation under Leopold
The Turkish Wars and the Siege of Vienna
The War of the Spanish Succession
The Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession, 1740-48
THE REFORMS OF MARIA THERESA AND JOSEPH II
Baroque Absolutism and Enlightened Despotism
The Strategic Impact of the Reform Era
THE HABSBURG EMPIRE AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
The Napoleonic Wars
The
AUSTRIA IN THE AGE OF METTERNICH
International Developments, 1815-48
Domestic Policies
THE Revolutionary Rise and Fall
The Failure of Neoabsolutism
Loss of Leadership in Germany
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY TO THE EARLY 1900S
The Founding of the Dual Monarchy
Final Defeat in Germany and Reconciliation with Prussia
The Eastern Question
Internal Developments in Austria
THE FINAL YEARS OF THE EMPIRE AND WORLD WAR I
The Crisis over Bosnia and Hercegovina
World War I
The End of the Habsburg Empire and the Birth of the Austrian Republic
THE FIRST REPUBLIC
Overview of the Political Camps
The
Political Life of the 1920s and Early 1930s
The End of Constitutional Rule
Growing German Pressure on Austria
THE ANSCHLUSS AND WORLD WAR II
Absorption of Austria into the Third Reich
Nazi Economic and Social Policies
Repression and Compliance
World War II and the Defeat of Nazi Germany
RESTORED INDEPENDENCE UNDER ALLIED OCCUPATION
Foundation of the Second Republic
Four-Power Occupation and Recognition of the Provisional Government
The 1945 Election and Consolidation of the Austrian Government
Consolidation of Democracy
Austria's
The 1955 State Treaty and Austrian Neutrality
THE GRAND COALITION AND THE AUSTRIAN PEOPLE'S PARTY CODA, 1955-70
Foreign Policy in the Late 1950s and 1960s
Elections and Parties
Domestic Tranquillity under the Grand Coalition
THE KREISKY YEARS, 1970-83
Electoral Politics in the Kreisky Era
Domestic Issues
Foreign Policy
End of the Kreisky Era