The struggle was initially based on the religious conflicts among Germans by the Protestant Reformation, but it was later influenced by other issues and later became dominated by dynastic ambitions. ... However, Christian's intervention was really motivated by nonreligious considerations, mainly territorial ambitions in northwestern Europe and a determination to end Habsburg control of the Danish duchy of Holstein, Germany. ... His attempts to end the War aroused the enmity of his own officers, and on February 25, 1634, he was assassinated. ...

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The Bismarck's Dual Alliance was intended to stabilize the European status-quo, however only got the ball rolling and therefore other powers in European felt threatened and began creating their own alliances. ... France was becoming more concerned with Germany's growing power, being a neighboring country and also France was having their own domestic issues with too many political groups and war was a good way to deflect their own issues. ... In reaction to this challenge to their naval supremacy, from 1903 to 1910, the British Royal Navy embarked on its own massive expansion to keep ...

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It emerged as a historical movement in the nineteenth century, rooted in the ambition of different peoples for self-determination. ... Further, in a sense the colonizing Europeans had taken with them the seed of their own destruction. ...

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The first and second estate people had the privileges such as they had the control of education and they also owned twenty percent of land. ... As France had territorial ambitions, the military of France hence fought on both land and water. ...

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