7 years war: Europe

Question 1

9 years war

Answer 1

1688-97: weakened the Netherlands

Question 2

Spanish and Austrian succession wars

Answer 2

Spanish Succession war (1700-13): Britain gains Minorca, Gibraltar and Acadia (Canada)
Austrian Succession war (1740-48): Madras occupied by France but returned to Britain

Question 3

7 years war

Answer 3

1756-73
AKA the French and Indian war

Question 4

The fronts

Answer 4

Europe, India, America

Question 5

‘Great Change of Partners’

Answer 5

France, Austria, and Russia VS Britain and Prussia

Question 6

Outcomes (deaths and power)

Answer 6

900,000 to 1.4 million deaths
Shift in balance of power: Britain’s assertion of global dominance

Question 7

France

Answer 7

Conquest of Minorca: 1756
Plans to invade Britain: 1759
Defeat: Battle of Quiberon in 1759

Question 8

Prussia

Answer 8

Financial support from Britain
Invasion of Saxony and Bohemia
Defeat: Kolin in 1757
Russian occupation: Berlin and Kolberg in 1760
New Russian Tsar changes sides

Question 9

French in India

Answer 9

Chandernagar and Pontichery de-militarised after Madras experience in 1764

Question 10

Moghul empire

Decline

Answer 10

Ruled most of India in the 16th and 17th centuries
Aurengzeb: decline due to religious policies that led to muslim/hindu conflict (1707+)
Delhi: Sacked by Persians in 1739 (Nader Shah) and Afghans in 1784-61 (Ahmad Shah Durrani)