Central Europe did not have a strong leader to unite the states for a longer time because of the aristocracy limiting the king's power. They denied him an army and gave him little pay and little power. Without any real power, he couldn't force central Europe to unite. eventually a German family of Austria rose to power by becoming absolute rulers. They were known as the Hapsburgs. They did three important thing to help them become rulers:
1. Took over Bohemia during 300 year war.
2. eliminated Protestantism and created the Czech nobility that was loyal to them
3.they took Hungary from the ottoman empire
The Hapsburgs had the power to form a stronger sense of unity in Central Europe
The Baltic states, the Ottoman empire and the Italian city-states were the 3 principal political entities in central and eastern Europe in the mid-seventeenth century. The Ottoman empire dissolved in 1923.
After World War I, three independent states that emerged in Central Europe were Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary. Czechoslovakia was formed from territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, while Poland regained independence after over a century of partition. Hungary transitioned from the Kingdom of Hungary, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to an independent state following the war. These changes were part of the broader redrawing of national borders in Europe due to the war's aftermath.
Western Europe had a distinct advantage in alliance with the United States and through NATO. American defense expenditures coupled with the Marshal Plan for reconstructing Europe allowed them to focus on social welfare rather then rearmament. The provisions of a American nuclear umbrella created further reassurances to deterring a Soviet land invasion into Western Europe. That being said France under Du Gaulle committed to their own independent nuclear deterrent.
The Pecan is a species of hickory, native to south-central North America, in the United States from southern Iowa, Illinois and Indiana east to western Kentucky and western Tennessee, south through Oklahoma, Arkansas, to Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana; and in Mexico from Coahuila south to Jalisco and Veracruz.
The Marshall Plan was devised by the United States to aid the economic recovery of Western European nations after World War II, aiming to prevent the spread of communism by stabilizing these countries. By providing approximately $13 billion in grants and loans, the U.S. sought to rebuild war-torn economies, promote political stability, and foster cooperation among European nations. This initiative not only helped revitalize the European economy but also strengthened U.S. ties with Western Europe during the Cold War era.
Due to closure from the free world by communist countries.
Austria is in central Europe and would be regarded as a western European country.
Western Europe
Mostly shades of Christianity. Protestant in England and the central states and Catholic in France.
Independent nation states developed later in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe because Eastern Europe had little history of self-rule. It had been conquered by Hitler, then the Soviet Union.
yes.
The body of water between the east coast of the United States of America and Western Europe is the Atlantic Ocean.
powerful commercial bankers
The United States
No. They are in the western United States and Canada.
France is the biggest country in western Europe.
Notice that Eastern Europe IS NOT the same as Eastern Block, i.e. Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary were part of Eastern Bloc (as communistic states) but have never been in Eastern Europe (but central one or in western cultural circle). SO Eastern Bloc: poverty, communism, lack of personal freedom, highly extended health care and education system, central planned economy (inefficient), subjection to USSR (obligatory under the thread of military intervention) Western Europe: Richness, real democracy, freedom of speech and traveling, lower social expenses, capitalism, subjection to USA (freely).