1. Do Now – World History In your own words, what is self-determination?
(Feel free to look up, and rephrase a definition)

2. The PEACE of Westphalia

3. Essential Questions What is sovereignty?
What political changes occurred as a result of the Peace of Westphalia?

4. Effects of the Treaty
Ended the war

5. Effects of the Treaty
Started to break apart the Holy Roman Empire

6. Effects of the Treaty
Established a balance of power in Europe

7. Effects of the Treaty
Created the new nations of the Netherlands and Switzerland

9. Effects of the Treaty
Allowed Catholics to practice their religion freely, even if they were in a Protestant-controlled region

10. Effects of the Treaty
Created the idea of sovereignty

11. What is “Sovereignty”?
the ability of an individual nation, or group of people that share a common culture, to have self-rule
aka: “self-determination”
How can a ruler have self-determination?

12. 4 Characteristics of Sovereign Nations
A group of people with a common culture

13. Characteristics of Sovereign Nations
Recognizes the difference between “foreign” and “domestic”

14. Characteristics of Sovereign Nations
Has complete control over its own territory

15. Characteristics of Sovereign Nations
Is also called a “nation-state”

16. The Pope Challenges the Idea…
Pope Innocent X (“the Tenth”) declared the Peace of Westphalia null and void
Nation-states ignored the Pope
What social change did the reactions exemplify?

17. Revisiting The Essentials…
What political changes occurred as a result of the Peace of Westphalia?